
Chris Schad
Mayo Clinic

Eddie Pauline
Ohio Life Sciences Association

Frank Jaskulke
Avio MedTech

Luigi Pannone
UZ Brussel

Angela Lorts
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Andrew Shaffer
University of Minnesota Medical School

David Benditt
University of Minnesota

Ed Chinchoy
National Science Foundation (NSF)

Greg Beilman
University of Minnesota

Hubert Lim
University of Minnesota

Pat Dillon
MNSBIR, Inc.

Ping Yeh
Vocxi Health
Full List of Speakers
- Gregory Beilman, University of Minnesota
Combat Medicine
- David Benditt, University of Minnesota
Cardiovascular Neural Intervention
- Tyler Best, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
Accelerating Healthcare and Medtech through ARPA-H
- Sonya Bhavsar, J&J MedTech, Heart Recovery
Clinical and Real World Evidence-Pediatric Devices
- Edward Chinchoy. National Science Foundation (NSF)
SBIR/STTR Non-Dilutive Seed Funding for Innovative Medical Devices from Concept to Commercialization
- William "Billy" Cohn, BiVACOR
Tuesday Lunch Keynote
- Madeline Czeck, Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation
Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
- Pat Dillon. MNSBIR, Inc.
SBIR/STTR Non-Dilutive Seed Funding for Innovative Medical Devices from Concept to Commercialization
- Neal Duong, University of Minnesota
Cardiovascular Neural Intervention
- Doron Harlev, Medtronic
Cardiovascular Keynote
- Frank Jaskulke, Avio MedTech
Growing a Successful MedTech Innovation Ecosystem – Hint, it isn’t just the money (Fireside Plenary Session)
- Hubert Lim, University of Minnesota
Welcome & Plenary Session
- Lisa Lombardo, Cleveland VA Medical Center
Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
- John Looft, Rehabilitation & Engineering Center for Optimizing Veteran Engagement & Reintegration (RECOVER)
Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
- Angela Lorts, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and ACTION-Cardiac Outcomes Network
Clinical and Real World Evidence-Pediatric Devices
- Brandon Lurie, W. L. Gore & Associates
Real World Examples Utilizing the ASME V&V 40 Standard for Medical Device Development
- Mike Medina, Novare Medical Consulting
Clinical and Real World Evidence-Pediatric Devices
- Amanda Neisch, University of Minnesota
Cryopreservation of Organoids, Organs and Organisms for Healthcare, Food and Biodiversity
- Zach Orlowski, Spacelabs Healthcare
Smart Medical Devices: Creating value and whole person health
- Patrick Osborn, CentraCare
Combat Medicine
- Luigi Pannone, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele and UZ Brussel
Cardiovascular Keynote
- Eddie Pauline, Ohio Life Sciences Association
Growing a Successful MedTech Innovation Ecosystem – Hint, it isn’t just the money (Fireside Plenary Session)
- Todd Rasmussen, Mayo Clinic
Combat Medicine
- John Rondoni, Inspire Medical
Smart Medical Devices: Creating value and whole person health
- Mickayla Rosard, Groove Capital
Growing a Successful MedTech Innovation Ecosystem – Hint, it isn’t just the money (Fireside Plenary Session)
- Chris Schad, Mayo Clinic
Growing a Successful MedTech Innovation Ecosystem – Hint, it isn’t just the money (Fireside Plenary Session)
- Tori Schrimpf, Medtronic
Cardiovascular Neural Intervention
- Alexander Senk, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
- Andrew Shaffer, University of Minnesota Medical School
Clinical Case: Emergency Resternotomy of the Cardiac Surgery Patient
- Scott Stanslaski, Medtronic
Cardiovascular Neural Intervention
- Parker Tyler, Edwards Life Sciences
Clinical and Real World Evidence-Pediatric Devices
- Ping Yeh, Vocxi Health
Smart Medical Devices: Creating value and whole person health
Session Organizers
- Andrew Grande, University of Minnesota Medical School
- Andrew Hansen, Minneapolis VA Health Care System
- Balakrishna Haridas, Texas A&M University
- Brenda Ogle, University of Minnesota
- Carl Nelson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Christopher Tignanelli, University of Minnesota
- Ed Chinchoy, National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Frank Jaskulke, Avio MedTech
- Genevieve Melton-Meaux, University of Minnesota
- Gwen Fischer, University of Minnesota Medical School
- Holly Golecki, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Hubert Lim, University of Minnesota
- John Bischof, University of Minnesota
- John Osborn, University of Minnesota
- Lars Oddsson, RxFunction
- Lucy Dunne, University of Minnesota
- Marc Horner, Ansys
- Matt Johnson, University of Minnesota
- Mike Finch, University of Minnesota
- Mithun Suresh, University of Minnesota, CentraCare, and M Health Fairview
- Pat Dillon, MNSBIR, Inc.
- Paul Iaizzo, University of Minnesota
- Paul Rothweiler, University of Minnesota
- Ping Yang, Medtronic
- Tim Kowalewski, University of Minnesota
- Tyler Best, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
- Will Durfee, University of Minnesota
- William (Bill) Betten, S3 Connected Health
- Ziad Nahas, University of Minnesota