Latest Medtronic Podcast Episodes
Relievant CEO Kevin Hykes Shares the Advice that Led Him to Set a Successful Course as CEO
Medtech Talk - July 13, 2018 04:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsUnder CEO Kevin Hykes, Relievant Medsystems is racking up some wins. The company closed on a $58 million Series E round last month and this week announced the first commercial application of its Intraspect pain-relief procedure. In this podcast, Hykes doles out some valuable career advice for wan...
Surgeon/Engineer Steve Charles Has Advice for Aspiring Inventors: Never Stop Learning; Dump Netflix
Medtech Talk - June 29, 2018 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsAsk renowned vitreoretinal surgeon and inventor Steve Charles, MD, if he considers himself a surgeon or engineer first and he’ll answer – both. In this podcast, Dr. Charles says the terms “inventor” and “innovator” aren’t job titles. Innovation and inventing are what you get when insightful peopl...
Three Experienced Medtech CEOs Share Stories of Waging Successful Wars for Device Reimbursement
Medtech Talk - June 21, 2018 04:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWe were hoping to capture some real-world wisdom by putting three CEOs –Bill Facteau of Earlens, Bob Paulson of NxThera and John Stevens of HeartFlow –on a panel to share reimbursement war stories. Many of those attending the May 31st Medtech Conference think we got our wish.
CEO John Pedersen Explains Why Urology – and Augmenix – Are Enjoying Such an “Interesting Time”
Medtech Talk - June 13, 2018 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsIn this Medtech Talk Podcast, CEO John Pedersen explains why he chose to help Augmenix roll out its SPACEOAR implant, a hydrogel that's inserted between a patient's prostate and rectum to save healthy tissue from radiation exposure. In this talk, Pedersen discusses the rise of urology - which inc...
Medtech CEOs Herbert, Elsesser on Meeting the Challenges of Leading Companies from Start-Up to IPO
Medtech Talk - June 07, 2018 04:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsCEOs often are assigned skill sets that define their stage of specialty: start-up CEOs, commercial CEOs, etc. Two of our guests at the Medtech Conference in Minneapolis defied those definitions by taking start-ups through commercial launches and onto the public markets. In these interviews, Tim H...
Healthegy's Medtech Conference Bringing Together Pols, VCs and Executives to Discuss Sector's Future
Medtech Talk - May 29, 2018 04:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsJoin us on Thursday at the Medtech Conference in Minneapolis to hear from Congressman Erik Paulsen. A longtime proponent of the Medtech industry, Rep. Paulsen most recently co-authored a letter asking the Trump administration to remove medical technology products from a list of Chinese imports s...
Follow TransEnterix' Journey from Single-Port Surgery Start-Up to Robotics Leader with CEO Todd Pope
Medtech Talk - May 18, 2018 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsTransEnterix President and CEO Todd Pope took the helm of the start-up to create a new single-port surgery system. Little did Todd know he'd be running a global robotics company that's now moving into multiple markets, including the US. In this interview, Pope takes us through the career path tha...
Propeller Health CEO David Van Sickle Explains How Sensors, Data Can Help Manage Respiratory Disease
Medtech Talk - May 11, 2018 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsDavid Van Sickle, CEO & Co-Founder of Propeller Health, brings his public health background to health tech start-up Propeller Health. The company has created a line of sensors that work in conjunction with inhalers and spirometers to measure medication intake and breathing capacity of people with...
NxThera CEO Bob Paulson Talks M&A, Career Twists, Family, and Lessons Learned from Selling Yogurt
Medtech Talk - May 07, 2018 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsBoston Scientific's acquisition of NxThera obviously signals an end of one era. The 10-year-old start-up will live inside the global giant, of course, but we ask CEO Bob Paulson what the sale means to him on a personal level. Paulson also walks us through his unorthodox career in marketing, corpo...
Ceterix CEO John McCutcheon Is Writing a Different Ending with New Tech That Can Save the Meniscus
Medtech Talk - April 26, 2018 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsIn 2010, John McCutcheon joined Ceterix, a start-up with big goals and a surer FDA path than his previous company. McCutcheon recounts the FDA's battering of that company, Emphasys, and explains how his current company is rolling today.
Intact CEO Bruce Shook Excited by New Round, Clinical Progress, and the Potential for Spin-off, Vesper
Medtech Talk - April 19, 2018 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsIntact Vascular recently secured an additional $20m to push the Tack Endovascular System to PMA approval. CEO Bruce Shook discusses the round, the potential for Tack, and shares that he's actually the CEO of TWO Medtech start-ups.
Intersect ENT CEO Lisa Earnhardt Discusses New Products and Plans as Medtech Talk Hits the 100 Mark
Medtech Talk - April 10, 2018 04:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsCEO Lisa Earnhardt, who appeared as the first guest on the Medtech Talk Podcast, returns in episode number 100 to share why she took the helm of the 12-person start-up 10 years ago, and how Intersect ENT has managed company culture over years of enormous growth. She also discusses where Intersect...
Baxter Ventures VP Anne Sissel Says Strategic Investors Can Help Start-Ups Reach Their Potential
Medtech Talk - April 04, 2018 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsAnne Sissel, vice president of Baxter Ventures, says she followed the numbers into Medtech. Now, she enjoys using the strategic's capital to help start-ups find ways to curtail costs and create new treatments for dreadful diseases.
CEO Jim Buck Says Mardil Medical is Using Familiar Script to Rewrite the Rules on Treating FMR
Medtech Talk - March 27, 2018 04:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsJim Buck, President and CEO of Mardil Medical, shares his personal and professional Medtech stories. The common thread? He doesn't give up. One result may be Mardil pushing for the rebirth of a once high-flying Medtech technology. In this podcast you'll hear: His tragic, but uplifting path to M...
Lightstone's Jason Lettmann Compares and Contrasts US, Irish Medtech Scenes After Three Years Abroad
Medtech Talk - March 23, 2018 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWhen we last spoke with Jason Lettmann, general partner at Lightstone Ventures, he had just set up his firm's shop in Ireland. Three years later, the VC returns to Menlo Park and shares his Medtech observations from abroad. In this podcast, Lettmann compares the entrepreneurial infrastructure in ...
CEO Stevens Says HeartFlow Took No Shortcuts to Commercialization, Raising $240 million Series E
Medtech Talk - March 06, 2018 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsJohn H. Stevens, MD, was too excited to sleep when he first heard what HeartFlow's technology could potentially do. Eight years later, he's sleeping a lot better, having secured $240 million to fund the company's commercial rollout of the HeartFlow Analysis system. Overview: HeartFlow has built ...
Zenflow CEO Damiano Shares Start-up's Origins, Success in Building the Right Series A Syndicate
Medtech Talk - February 27, 2018 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThe Stanford Biodesign program created another promising start-up in Zenflow. Co-founder and CEO Nick Damiano explains how the program's fellows identified the opportunity in BPH and found the right tech to excite investors. Zenflow drew some early capital from unusual sources before embarking on...
LRVHealth Tapping Providers for New $100 Million Fund
Medtech Talk - February 16, 2018 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsTripp Peake co-founded Long River Ventures in 2000, just before the tech and venture capital industries took a dive. The firm survived, thrived, and is very much alive raising a $100 million fund under a new brand, LRVHealth. The new name and tight healthcare focus reflects the firm's strong conn...
Pixium CEO Sees Great Promise for PRIMA Implant
Medtech Talk - February 06, 2018 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsKhalid Ishaque says Bioelectronic Medicine has made great strides in treating hearing loss, depression, and other maladies and shows great promise in treating neurological disorders like Alzheimer's disease. Yet, most people still see it as more science fiction than science fact. But that's chang...
SVB’s Numbers Guru Jon Norris Points to More Investors, Stronger Exits Facing Medtech in 2018
Medtech Talk - January 29, 2018 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHard to find anyone working harder than Jonathan Norris to help us see the forest for the trees. Jon is a fixture at many conferences including – thankfully – the upcoming Medtech Conference on May 31. But we wanted to get to his insights early. In this Medtech Talk Podcast, Jon and I discuss h...
SVB’s Numbers Guru Jon Norris Points to More Investors, Stronger Exits Facing Medtech in 2018
Medtech Talk - January 29, 2018 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHard to find anyone working harder than Jonathan Norris to help us see the forest for the trees. Jon is a fixture at many conferences including – thankfully – the upcoming Medtech Conference on May 31. But we wanted to get to his insights early. In this Medtech Talk Podcast, Jon and I discuss h...
New Metavention CEO Todd Berg Talks M&A, Raising Capital, and Why He’s Excited to Join the Start-up
Medtech Talk - January 23, 2018 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsTodd Berg has a bit of a winning streak going. Berg worked at three Medtech start-ups prior to accepting the CEO post at exciting new start-up Metavention, and all three companies would be acquired including Torax Medical, the GERD company Berg led from start to finish.What led Berg to Medtech? W...
Fractyl’s Rajagopalan Shares Fund-Raising Philosophy
Medtech Talk - January 08, 2018 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWhat Went into Fractyl’s $44 million Round? CEO and co-founder Harith Rajagopalan, MD, PhD, discusses his approach to raising new capital and to building the right board.
We Ask Anders Wold, Head of GE’s Clinical Care Solutions, Where GE Fits in Healthcare’s Future
Medtech Talk - December 15, 2017 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsAnders Wold, president and CEO of GE’s Clinical Care Solutions, is still fascinated by the power new technology can deliver to healthcare. So he’s understandably excited about the opportunities facing this division of GE – and the entire company as well – as we move into healthcare of the future.
AI Forerunner IDx Explains How New Test Could Cut Healthcare Costs, Improve Diagnosis of Eye Disease
Medtech Talk - December 05, 2017 05:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThe power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning looms over Medtech as a growing force that will bring change, good or bad. In this MedtechTalk Podcast, Michael D. Abramoff, MD, PhD, president and co-founder of IDx, tells how the start-up is using AI to better diagnose diabetic retinopat...
Norwest’s Mittendorff Details Past Successes and Future Challenges Facing Healthcare Technology
Medtech Talk - November 17, 2017 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsMedtech and Digital Health technology increasingly have more and more in common. In this Medtech Talk Podcast, Robert Mittendorff, MD, a partner at Norwest Venture Partners, explains how Digital Health companies are facing many of the same challenges that vex Medtech start-ups, including the need...
Cardionomic’s Goedeke Talks Team Jackets, Ski Lifts, and Changing How ADHF Is Treated
Medtech Talk - November 10, 2017 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsSteve Goedeke says he was the kid who liked to take things apart. But he’s built a career putting things together including a promising neuromodulation start-up called Cardionomic. In this episode, Goedeke shares the thoughts – and concerns – that went into leaving a seemingly stable gig at Medtr...
How Will CEO Pavlidis Help VytronUS Deliver Disruptive Ultrasound Tool to Treat Afib in the EP Lab?
Medtech Talk - November 03, 2017 04:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsJohn Pavlidis, president and CEO of VytronUS, has built a strong resume leading and selling Medtech start-ups. Now the self-described engineering “nerd” is leading VytronUS, a start-up combining the powers of imaging, ablation, and robotics to create a powerful new tool that can elevate the preci...
Alexa! Ask Worrell How Voice Technology, Virtual Reality, and Other Exciting Tech Will Help Medtech
Medtech Talk - October 28, 2017 04:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsMedtech-device design firm Worrell now is envisioning how Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Voice-enabled Technologies like Amazon’s Alexa might treat chronic disease, manage clinical trials, and restore bonds between patients and physicians. We talk with CEO Kai Worrell and Kristen Shardlo...
Mylea Charvat Says Savonix Working to Turn Cognitive Function into Vital Measure
Medtech Talk - October 20, 2017 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsFaced with an unacceptable diagnosis after her husband was seriously injured in an accident, Savonix CEO Mylea Charvat created a tool to measure cognitive function to aid his recovery. Now Savonix seeks to establish cognitive function as a standard measure of human health. The technology potentia...
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