DeviceTalks Weekly

Ep 195 - OIV’s Hunter-Syed on corporate venture capital’s growing influence; Bell previews SRS annual meeting

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, we dig deeper into the worlds of Corporate Venture Capital and Surgical Robotics. In our keynote intervi...

Ep 194 - Imaging pioneer Arun Menawat explains how MR-driven Profound Medical will upend traditional surgery

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Editorial Director Tom Salemi visits with Arun Menawat, CEO and Chairman of Profound Medical, devel...

Ep 193 - How Enovis is prepping for foot & ankle street fight; A chat about Medtronic’s Percept RC DBS System

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, we’ll talk with Gary Justak, president and general manager of Enovis’ foot & ankle business...

Ep 192 - Transforming surgery with Versius: bringing robotic assisted surgery to patients worldwide

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, we’ll replay our Day 2 opening keynote at DeviceTalks Boston with three senior leaders from CMR S...

Ep 191 - BD’s CTO Beth McCombs Explains How Medtech Innovation Can Deliver Real Help to Patients, Providers

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, we visit with Elizabeth McCombs, executive vice president and chief technology officer at BD. This is a replay...

Ep 190 - Hear the Final Word About DeviceTalks Boston: Live Recording of DeviceTalks Weekly On Stage

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the DeviceTalks Editorial Team - Tom Salemi, Kayleen Brown - recaps the highlights of DeviceTalks Boston with MassDevice Editor in Ch...

Ep 189 - It's Here! Share Your Story at DeviceTalks Boston Next Week Where You Can Meet Great Medtech Leaders

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Editorial Director Tom Salemi talks about next week’s DeviceTalks Boston meeting with Me...

Ep 188 - Medtronic’s Seidel Maps out Future for Electrophysiology, Pulsed-Field Ablation Portfolio

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we visit with Rebecca Seidel, president of Medtronic’s cardiac ablation solutions group, about the future of pulsed-field ablation ...

Ep 187 - Why Distalmotion’s Roche sees Dexter’s small size as big advantage in the robotics surgical market

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, Greg Roche, CEO of Distalmotion, explains why smaller profile surgical robotic systems like Dexter have a shot ...

Ep 186 - Can Sovato Health Build Digital Highway for Remote Robotic Surgery? Unpacking the Storz-Asensus News

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast episode, Host Tom Salemi talks with Joe Mullings of The Mullings Group about the Karl Storz and Asensus Su...

Ep 185 - Four years!? Wow, time flies when you’re talking Medtech. Thank you for listening, DeviceTalkers!

30 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly, Host Tom Salemi thanks the DeviceTalks community for the kindness and support of our podcasts and conferences. He...

Ep 184 - Can BD’s New MiniDraw System Remove the Pain Points of Blood Testing for Patients, Health Systems

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Bridget C. Bagnato, worldwide president of specimen management at BD, gives us a glimpse of phlebotomy’...

Ep 183 - How Akura Medical wants to advance thrombectomy; What does da Vinci 5 mean for surgical robotics?

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of DeviceTalks Weekly Co-Hosts Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker pay a visit to the Wizard, Joe Mullings of The Mullings Group, to get hi...

Ep 182 - What the spaceMIRA Mission Means for Surgical Robots; Cyborgs, Drill Pills & Other Cool Harvard Tech

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, John Murphy, CEO of Virtual Incision, highlights the headline-grabbing surgical robotics start-up. ...

Ep 181 - How MedTech Color’s Pitch Competition Startup Finalists Are Tackling Healthcare’s Biggest Problems

02 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, we meet the 13 finalists for the MedTech Color Pitch Competition, both general and pediatric catego...

Ep 180 - InnovHeart CEO Wilson shares vision for TMVR start-up; Our chat with AAOS pitch winner CytexOrtho

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Co-hosts Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker interview Brad Estes, CEO of CytexOrtho, the winner of a pi...

Ep 179 - With $57m secured, CEO Fain Details Next Move for pMCS startup Procyrion; What’s Moonshot’s Mission

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, Procyrion CEO Eric Fain details the next steps for the startup’s ambitious plans to secure FDA approval for Aortix, a per...

Ep 178 - Medtronic’s Jason Weidman recalls the long, bumpy road to getting FDA approval for Symplicity Spiral

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s DeviceTalks Weekly is a bit of a retrospective on Medtronic’s Symplicity Spiral Renal Denervation System. It obviously ends on a happy...

Ep 177 - J&Js Tezel Says Tapping Global Network and Diverse Engineering Disciplines Strengthens Medtech R&D

27 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’ll open this week’s episode with Paul Grand, CEO of the MedTech Innovator. Grand issued a last call for medical device entrepreneurs to apply t...

Ep 176 - Fluidda’s De Backer, FastWave’s Nelson Share Individual Strategies for Breaking into Medtech Markets

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast we’ll talk with two CEOs scaling tall Medtech mountains. First, co-hosts Chris Newsmarker and Tom Salemi chat with Jan De Backer, CE...

Ep 175 - Will 2024 Bring Medtech More Promise or More Pain? HSBC’s Norris on Investments, Investors and Exits

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first episode of 2024, co-hosts Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker bring Jonathan Norris, managing director of HSBC Innovation Banking, into the bo...

Ep 174 - It’s the Big One! Hear our Media Roundtable Debate and Discuss the Top Medtech Newsmakers of 2023

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our final DeviceTalks Weekly of the year, the news team assembles to highlight MassDevice’s Top Medtech Trends of 2023. Let us know if you think ...

Ep 173 - CEO Richards Helps Us See Elucid more clearly; A Chat with Newsmaker Canary Medical CEO Bill Hunter

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’ll talk with Medtech Industry Veteran Bill Hunter about the state of Medtech. The CEO of Canary Medical, a leader in medical dev...

Ep 172 - How AVS’ PIVL system could compete in growing PAD market; Details on Medtech’s new digital playbook

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we’ll talk with Sean Gilligan, chief operating officer at AVS (Amplitude Vascular Systems), about that company’s big play in intra...

Ep 171 - Does Medtech Need a New Way? Hear from Imperative Care’s Fred Khosravi, McKinsey’s Delphine Zurkiya

17 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’ll hear from Fred Khosravi, CEO of Imperative Care, a medical device company that is taking an unusually holistic approach to he...

Ep 170 - Hear Why J&J Medtech Is Ready to Move Forward with Ottava; A VC Discusses the Impact of GLP-1 drugs

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode we’ll speak with Rocco De Bernardis, Global President of OTTAVA, Johnson & Johnson MedTech. This week, J&J MedTech ...

Ep 169 - Qiagen CEO on learning to love diagnostics and why he’s worried we forgot lessons from the pandemic

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, Qiagen CEO Thierry Bernard gives us a look inside the diagnostics leader both today and a few years ago when it was responde...

Ep 168 - It’s the DeviceTalks West Post Game Wrap Up Show, Starring Tom, Chris, Kayleen, Sean and Joe!!

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We recorded this episode on stage at the conclusion of DeviceTalks West. Our semi-esteemed panel included Co-Hosts Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker as w...

Ep 167 - Join us at DeviceTalks West on Oct. 18-19! A pre-interview interview with Intuitive’s Dave Rosa

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join us at DeviceTalks West on Oct. 18-19 at the Santa Clara Convention Center! In this episode, Tom Salemi invites all DeviceTalkers to our biggest W...

Ep 166 - How Nitin Salunke’s different mindset helped him shift career from engineer to CEO of Supira Medical

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A college introduction to biomechanics set Nitin Salunke on an expected path into the medical device industry. But once his course was set Salunke hel...

Ep 165 - Hear the Last 10 Start-ups Standing in MedTech Innovator’s Pitch Competitions

30 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s episode is dedicated entirely to the 10 Finalists of MedTech Innovator’s Pitch Competitions. The final winners will be selected by the...

Ep 164 - CEO Clifford on how Moximed has kept singularly focused on developing a shock absorber for the knee

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Osteoarthritis isn’t a typical target for startups but Moximed isn’t developing a typical device. In this episode, CEO Anton Clifford will walk us...

Ep 163 - Hawkins on how Avail is changing Medtech; Turning Pain into Purpose & other MedtechVision Takeaways

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’ll visit with Daniel Hawkins, CEO of Avail Medsystems. Hawkins is a prolific and successful medtech entrepreneur who was an early emplo...

Ep 162 - Synchron’s Haggstrom delivers a taste of what he’ll be sharing on neural tech at DeviceTalks West

08 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, medical device pro Kurt Haggstrom details what led him to join high-flying neural implant company Synchron, which is one of ...

Ep 161 - CEO Nahum explains how Quantum Surgical is positioned for robotic surgery’s next evolutionary stage

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This isn’t Bertin Nahum’s first surgical robotics rodeo. The CEO of Quantum Surgical previously co-founded, led and ultimately sold surgical robot...

Ep 160 - CEO McCutcheon leaning on lessons from past successes, disappointments to move EBR Systems forward

25 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s podcast, we’ll visit with John McCutcheon, president and CEO of EBR Systems, which is developing a miniature pacemaker that is powe...

Ep 159 - SECRET Code Inside! Hear a replay of DeviceTalks West conversation with Intuitive’s Gary Guthart

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As a thank you for subscribing and listening to the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast we built a special code to help you register for the Oct. 18-19 DeviceT...

Ep 158 - CEO Meelby Jensen on holding Ambu’s top spot in single-use scopes; Also, Why is Wall Street cranky?

04 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A little over a year after taking over the CEO role at Ambu A/S, Britt Meelby Jensen visits the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast to draw lessons from her ca...

Ep 157 - What Got Steve Goetz to Join Motif Neurotech? Carmel, Jones Share Details of Upcoming MedtechVISION

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week's episode features the first of what's sure to be many audio appearances by DeviceTalks Managing Editor Kayleen Brown! We’re also visited ...

Ep 156 - Elixir Medical CEO explains how new scaffold system could move vascular treatment beyond the stent

21 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Host Tom Salemi learns the Elixir Medical story from CEO Motasim Sirhan, who has spent most of his medtech career developing new vasc...

Ep 155 - Asensus Surgical CEO Fernando maps out ambitious digital surgery strategy; DeviceTalks West unboxed

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, Anthony Fernando, President and CEO of Asensus Surgical, discusses the company's journey in the field of surgical robotics a...

Ep 154 - Augmedics' Kevin Hykes lays out vision for `X-ray’ OR imaging system, shares advice for future CEOs

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Hykes, CEO of Augmedics, discusses his journey in the Medtech industry and the development of their augmented reality surgical navigation system...

Ep 153 - CEO Favet explains how NeuroPace is bringing neuromodulation to people with drug-resistant epilepsy

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of DeviceTalks Weekly we’ll talk with Mike Favet, CEO of NeuroPace, about how the company’s RNS technology is helping to transform...

Ep 152 - Engineer-turned-exec Sutton lays out Imperative's far-reaching strategy for treating stroke patients

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ariel Sutton, general manager of Imperative Care’s stroke business, joins us to explain why she swapped her medical school dreams for the opportunit...

Ep 151 - How Anika Therapeutics is using M&A and R&D to evolve into a global joint preservation business

26 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Cheryl R. Blanchard, Ph.D., CEO of Anika Therapeutics, explains how the company is morphing from a biomaterials into a joint preserva...

Ep 150 - Straight from DeviceTalks Boston: BD CEO Tom Polen on pandemic, M&A and successful succession plans

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of DeviceTalks Weekly brings you DeviceTalks Boston’s opening keynote conversation with Tom Polen, CEO, President and Chairman of Becto...

Ep 149 - DeviceTalks Boston is a Wrap – Gauging the impact of Big Pharma, AI, PE and other forces on Medtech

12 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our closing session of DeviceTalks Boston, Chris Newmarker, executive editor of life sciences, and Tom Salemi, Editorial Director of DeviceTalks, s...

Ep 148 - Free DeviceTalks Boston samples –VCs, Spine, Robotics, Career Advice and more – no toothpick needed

06 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Last call for DeviceTalks Boston! In this episode we'll preview our upcoming conference by talking with Paul Grand, CEO of Medtech Innovator, Rebecca ...

Ep 147 - Cerenovus’ Mark Dickinson on building a neurovascular portfolio; early peek at DT Boston

28 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Tom Salemi interviews Mark Dickinson, worldwide president at Cerenovus, the neurovascular business at Johnson & Johnson Medtech. ...

Ep 146 - How Dassault Systèmes virtual twin platform promises real success to device developers

21 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, we visit with Claire Biot, vice president, life sciences at Dassault Systèmes to learn about the company’s v...

Ep 145 - How FundamentalVR uses heightened haptics to advance virtual medical device training

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s podcast, FundamentalVR co-founder and CEO Richard Vincent shares the opportunity and need that convinced him to cross the chasm from ...

Ep 144 - Enovis bets big on ortho. CEO Matt Trerotola explains why the company has a winning hand

07 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s interview we talk with one of the newer orthopedics players on the block – Enovis, the entity formerly known as Colfax. CEO Matthew...

Ep 143 - Hear our great discussion with Omar Khateeb about how to engineer your best possible Medtech career

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We hand over the reins to all-around great Medtech guy and sales guru Omar M. Khateeb, host of the State of Medtech show on LinkedIn. Chris Newmarker,...

Ep 142 - How Ronovo Surgical is targeting China’s MIS surgical market with modular surgical robotic system

24 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we’ll speak with two leaders of Ronovo Surgical, a Shanghai-based surgical robotics company that’s looking to challenge Intuitive ...

Ep 141 - Picking through the rubble of SVB’s collapse, what’s next for Medtech, VCs and startups?

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A week after the SVB Wall’s fall, we talk with medical device leaders about how they managed the run on Silicon Valley Bank, which filed for Chapter...

Ep 140 - Shifamed Start-Up Tioga Cardiovascular looking to redefine mitral and tricuspid valve replacement

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast episode, Co-Hosts Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker review how the medtech industry is handing the current shrinking job market. They’l...

Ep 139 - Is Medtech really recession proof? Recent layoffs, retrenchment may signal difficult times lie ahead

04 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Medtech layoffs continue to mount. We’ll use this episode to begin to explore external and internal challenges. Looking externally, longtime industr...

Ep 138 - Hear from Medtech Color’s 10 Pitch Competition finalists; Kwame Ulmer joins us for the Newsmakers

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, we’ll hear pitches from the 10 start-ups that have been selected as finalists for Medtech Color’s Pitch Competition. BI...

Ep 137 - State of Medtech Layoffs – Holly Scott on what can you do to find your next great opportunity

18 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Wow, I think we have a cool new format for the podcast! This was a fun one! Holly Scott, vice president and senior partner of the Mullings Group, an...

Ep 136 - Needham’s Matson, Saxon break down the Abbott-CSI and Globus-Nuvasive deals. Is more M&A on the way?

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The weekend ended with a bang as Abbott and Globus Medical both announced significant deals. Abbott picked up publicly traded Cardiovascular Solutions...

Ep 135 - CEO Simhambhatla details how Setpoint Medical is poised to fulfill promise of bioelectronic medicine

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Murthy Simhambhatla launched his medtech career during the epic race to develop groundbreaking drug-eluting stent technologies as a new approach to ba...

Ep 134 - Hear about Dexcom's evolving mission statement and Medtronic's Cranial and Spinal Technologies plans

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, CEO Kevin Sayer takes a few minutes to share Dexcom’s vision for the future OUTSIDE of diabetes. What does this mean for p...

Ep 133 - Can Pristine Surgical’s single-use scopes, subscription model disrupt the rigid endoscope market?

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pristine Surgical CEO Bryan Lord spent his career advising and investing in medical device companies, so he didn’t immediately see how a “conspicu...

Ep 132 - CEO Tom Polen explains how Dx, robotics, digital tech and relentless M&A are driving BD's growth

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Becton Dickinson’s CEO Tom Polen lays out the company’s plan for growth that’s building off a stunning sequence of acquisitions over the past tw...

Ep 131 - We Bid Adieu to 2022 – What were the biggest Medical Device newsmakers of the year?

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, your diligent team of DeviceTalkers - Executive Editor Chris Newmarker, Pharma Editor Brian Buntz, Managing Editor Jim Hammerand, Sen...

Ep 130 - How ReCor Medical is building a strong clinical case for renal denervation; let your voice be heard

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’ll speak with ReCor Medical’s CEO Andy Weiss and Helen Reeve-Stoffer, PHD, the company’s vice president of clinical affairs....

Ep 129 - Celine Martin discusses atrial fibrillation, neurovascular and where J&J Medtech may be going next

10 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Celine Martin, company group chairman, Cardiovascular & Specialty Solutions Group, offers insights from her career at Johnson &am...

Ep 128 - Expand your diabetes awareness with Bigfoot Biomedical’s Clemente and Medtronic’s Sugerman

02 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Unfortunately, we missed Diabetes Awareness Month by a few days, but we get great insights on this dreaded disease from two players in the space. Kris...

Ep 127 - Akili looks, sounds and walks like a medical device company but is it? A chat with COO Matt Franklin

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we talk with medtech vet Matt Franklin who left the industry. – sort of – to help lead Akili, developer of EndeavoRx, the first p...

Ep 126 - CEO Keith Grossman details how `Pain Company’ Nevro is grabbing a big piece of a competitive market

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’ll talk with Keith Grossman, who brought his long, successful track record as a medtech CEO to what he sees as a truly disruptiv...

Ep 125 - LivaNova taps the “miracle nerve” to combat epilepsy; How hospital workforce shortages hit Medtech

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast we’ll talk with Chris Hartman, president, epilepsy, LivaNova, about how the company is developing new tools to use the vagus nerve t...

Ep 124 - Can Phiex help fix Medtech’s growing sterilization problem? Our highlights from DeviceTalks West

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, we’ll visit with CL Tian, co-founder and CEO of Phiex Technologies, Medtech Innovator’s 2022 Grand Prize winner chosen b...

Ep 123 - A very special Newmarker's Newsmakers episode with Paul Grand of Medtech Innovator

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Just a short visit today. Paul Grand of the Medtech Innovator introduces us the five finalists of his start-up program. They’ll compete for the top ...

Ep 122 - Hear what you will see at next week’s DeviceTalks West

15 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Editorial Director Tom Salemi provides a sneak peek (listen?) into next week’s DeviceTalks West conference which will be held Oct. 19-20 at the Sant...

Ep 121 - ZimVie spine chief lays out future plans; Olympus America’s respiratory VP talks scopes, lung cancer

07 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’ll first hear from Swarna Alcorn, business unit vice president, Olympus America, about that company’s long held – and growin...

Ep 120 - How hospitals are forming closer ties with surgical robotics companies like Zimmer Biomet, Vicarious

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, we’ll talk with leaders from Zimmer Biomet and Vicarious Surgical about the new partners they’ve entered into with natio...

Ep 119 - Here are seven things Medtech VCs and start-up executives are thinking/worrying/excited about today

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly podcast features a panel discussion I led at Medmarc’s Annual Broker meeting. There are enormous insights on ...

Ep 118 - What Boston Scientific’s evolving supply chain strategy means for partners, productivity and M&A

16 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The medical device industry obviously isn’t immune to the challenges posed by a shaky supply chain. But OEM leaders like Boston Scientific need to w...

Ep 117 - How Cleerly and HeartFlow are hunting a massive, but still elusive killer – heart disease

10 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nearly 700,000 people die from heart disease, that’s one out of every five deaths, a startling number that could be curtailed with better predictive...

Ep 116 - How Medtronic CDS is bringing the power of data to bear in the fight against chronic diseases

02 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, two senior leaders from Medtronic’s Cardiovascular Diagnostics & Services group share the group’s vision of “turning data i...

Ep 115 - How Momentis Surgical and EndoQuest Robotics are extending surgical robotics reach into the body

26 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, two newer players to the surgical robotics space explain how they’re planning to grab their appropriate slice of the growing market...

Ep 114 - What’s the state of the Medtech job market? We go to the pros to hear things you need to know

19 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, we collect three very different perspectives on what it takes to find jobs/employees in this curren...

Ep 113 - Medtronic’s Mauri brings years of patient care to top clinical, regulatory, scientific post

12 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this replay of our most recent MedtronicTalks episode, Dr. Laura Mauri shares the career path that started with an early interest in medicine broug...

Ep 112 - Medtronic's Greg Smith lays out supply chain strategies

05 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this replay of the popular MedtronicTalks podcast episode, Greg Smith brought decades of supply chain experience with him when he joined Medtronic ...

Ep 111 - Ethicon’s Tom O’Brien explains the design – and critical need for - its new surgical stapler

29 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Tom O’Brien, Ethicon’s worldwide president of endomechanical, gives a detailed lesson on the design of its Echelon 3000 surgical...

Ep 110 - Camille Chang Gilmore shares Boston Scientific’s successful approach to hitting many DEI goals

22 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Camille Chang Gilmore, vice president, human resources and global chief diversity officer, explains why she accepted Boston Scientifi...

Ep 109 - Boston Scientific CEO Mike Mahoney on building a corporate culture that drives high growth results

01 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Boston Scientific CEO Michael Mahoney makes his DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast debut. In this jam-packed interview, Mahoney walks us thro...

Ep 108 - How innovative design, commercial strategy is building Cala Trio’s bioelectronic medicine market

24 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, Cala Health CEO Renee Ryan joins us in the Newmarker’s Newsmaker’s booth to share her insights on the news of the week i...

Ep 107 - Can Moon Surgical fill critical role in the OR? Analyst Matson’s take on J&J, Medtronic and more

17 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Michael Matson, analyst at Needham, explains his thoughts behind a possible J&J acquisition of Boston Scientific. He also explain...

Ep 106 - Fly into to the Data Zone! -A peak into Stryker’s playbook; What Oracle may do with Cerner

10 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week listeners will get to hear how Stryker is incorporating Vocera, Gauss and other tech into its DRE strategy. We’ll get a visit from fellow ...

Ep 105 - Deep look into Medtech Mergers, Investor frustration; Bonus: Medtronic moves against health inequity

03 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’ll take a deeper look into our Newmarker’s Newsmakers with Andrew Jay, general partner at the Borna Health Fund, a hedge fund ...

Ep 104 - DeviceTalks Boston Post-Game – Editors’ Top Moments, Insulet’s Eric Benjamin on future of Omnipod 5

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode the MassDevice editorial team will break down all the action at DeviceTalks Boston. You’ll also hear from keynote speaker Eric Benja...

Ep 103 - Our Pre-Post-DeviceTalks Boston episode, also MedtronicTalks replay with Gastro CMO Austin Chiang

13 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

First, a quick recap of DeviceTalks Boston. Then, a MedtronicTalks Podcast Replay, in which Austin L. Chiang, MD, explains why he brought his sizable ...

Ep 102 - What’s coming up at DeviceTalks Boston? A DTW contest! Also, can Fictiv fix the supply chain?

06 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

DeviceTalks Boston is here! Win a free registration. In this week’s episode, we’ll give you a little taste of what you’ll see at the Boston Con...

Ep 101 - How Baylis fits into Boston Scientific’s EP portfolio; also putting Medtech’s story to music

29 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Nick Spadea-Anello, Boston Scientific’s global president of electrophysiology, will explain how the $1.7 billion paid for Baylis Me...

Ep 100 - Hear how Shockwave and LimFlow are taking the fight to peripheral vascular diseases

22 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’ll talk to two of the more innovative companies in the peripheral vascular space – Shockwave Medical and LimFlow – about how...

Ep 99 - Vapotherm was going to have trouble meeting surging COVID-19 demands, then Viant stepped in

15 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, we interview Joe Army, CEO of Vapotherm, and Alton Shader, CEO of Viant. First. We’ll follow Army’s heartful move into M...

Ep 98 - Think you know what Penumbra may look like in five years? CEO Elsesser’s vision might surprise

08 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Penumbra CEO Adam Elsesser shares why he left a successful law career to become CEO of a medical device startup. After selling that c...

Ep 97 - Endiatx embarks on fantastic voyage in microrobotics; Embecta CEO intros new diabetes player

01 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’ll assemble the news team to bring you stories big, small and in the middle. Associate Editor Sean Whooley delivers HUGE results...

Ep 96 - CEO Lebed explains how Ukraine-based CRO is keeping trials running during invasion

25 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, we speak with Yuriy Lebed, the CEO of Pharmaxi LLC, a CRO based in Kyiv, Urkaine, that works with p...