Arthur Erdman, PhD, is the Richard C. Jordan Professor and a Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, specializing in mechanical design, bioengineering and product design. In July 2007 he was selected as the director of the Medical Devices Center at the university. Erdman has published more than 325 technical papers, three books, and holds more than 30 patents.
OK, social media mavens – this one’s for you. This coming from someone who, whenever I see or hear a reference to a Tweet, automatically rack up the chorus to Bobby Day’s golden oldie “Rockin’ Robin” (yes, and the Jackson 5, but Bobby Day’s was the original, in 1958): “Rockin' robin (tweet tweet tweet) Rockin' robin (tweet tweet tweet) Oh rockin' robin well you really gonna rock tonight” But I digress . . . This is about the use of social media to discuss health issues. According to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report, more than 40% of all U.S. adults...
Rafael Torres co-leads the GE healthymagination Fund. He previously worked in several roles at GE Healthcare (Chalfont, UK), including in mergers and acquisitions such as GE's $10 billion acquisition of Amersham, and serves on the board of several GE portfolio companies.
Robert Ward is chairman of Emergence Venture Partners, president of ExThera Medical (both Berkeley, California), and founder and former president of the Polymer Technology Group (PTG), now DSM Biomedical.
Robert Hubert is president/CEO of EKOS (Bothell, Washington), bringing to EKOS more than 20 years of marketing, sales, and general management experience in a broad range of medical device companies, from start-up to Fortune 10.
MINNEAPOLIS Things go in cycles, they say. That certainly appears to be true insofar as pharmaceutical company ownership of medical device companies is concerned.
MINNEAPOLIS The numbers were, as they say, staggering. When asked by conference co-chairman Kevin Wasserstein how many in the audience of nearly 400 attendees at the 11th annual MedTech Investing Conference here last week felt business conditions for the med-tech sector were better now than a year earlier, the number of hands raised could have made up the starting teams in an NBA game at the Target Center across the street.
