Keynote & Featured Speakers

alphabetical by last name

• Julie Allickson, Mayo Clinic
• Abdullah Al Mehedi, University of Minnesota
• Ridi Barua, Virginia Tech
• Carolyn Bernemann, Meld Bio
• Jacqueline Berning, Cook Medical
• Achin Bhowmik, Starkey
• John Bischof, NSF ATP-Bio
• Stephanie Board, Boston Scientific
• Julius Carillo, TransMedics Inc
• Frank Cerra, University of Minnesota
• Kimberly Chaffin, Medtronic
• Nilay Chakraborty, ATCC
• Nolan Cirillo-Penn, University of Minnesota
• Tony Consiglio, University of Minnesota
• Cory Criss, Midwest Pediatric Device Consortium
• Hunter Davis, Until Labs
• Philip Desjardins, Arnold & Porter
• Will Durfee, University of Minnesota
• Jacob Dutcher, CentraCare Heart & Vascular Center
• Emad Ebbini, University of Minnesota
• Ryan Egeland, Solventum
• Gloria Elliott, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
  • The Future of Cryopreservation
  • Biopreservation Technologies Fireside Chat
• Art Erdman, University of Minnesota
• Kolaleh Eskandanian, KPI
• Gregory Fahy, 21st Century Medicine, Inc.
• Leo Fifield, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Erik Finger, University of Minnesota
• Gwen Fischer, University of Minnesota
• Lakshya Gangwar, University of Minnesota
• Danny Gelfman, Medtronic
• Sebastian Giwa, Maximize Bio
• Benjamin Gorbaty, University of Minnesota
• Danielle Gottlieb Sen, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center
• Holly Grammer, LivaNova
• Carlos Guerrero-Chalela, laCardio
• Patrick Helm, Medtronic
• Paul Iaizzo, University of Minnesota
• Jillian Jackson, Saint Louis University
• Majid Jadidi, Aquablade Vascular
• Dori Jones, AcQumen Medical
• Kai Kadoich, US Food & Drug Administration
• Hassaan Khan, HL Medical Systems, Inc.
• Peyton Kullmann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Anahita Kyani, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
• Justin Laiti, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
• Hubert Lim, University of Minnesota
  • Welcoming Remarks
  • Closing Recap
• Natalie Livingston, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Kyle Martin, CentraCare M Physicians
• Tom Martin, Virginia Tech
• Michael McAlpine, University of Minnesota
• Mariah McMahon, Vascudyne
• Marcella Mercer, Duke University
• Nikolaos Michailidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• Damijan Miklavcic, University of Ljubljana
• Michael Morton, Medical Alley Association
• Nina Nair, University of Pennsylvania
• Javier Navarro, University of Minnesota
• Alisa Niksch, Owlet Baby Care, Inc.
  • PDIC Breakthrough and Networking
  • Pediatric Cardiac Technologies
• Abhilash Ohja, University of Minnesota
• Oziri Onyinyechukwu, University of Minnesota
• Ramya Palani, Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Pras Pathmanathan, US Food & Drug Administration
• Matthew Powell-Palm, Texas A&M University / BioChoric Inc.
• Jorge Reyes, University of Minnesota Medical School
• Stephen Richardson, Twin Cities Anesthesia Associates
• Erika Ross Ellison, Neuralink
• Henri Roukoz, University of Minnesota
• Anna Ryder, Virginia Tech
• Annamarie Saarinen, Bloom Standard
• Shreeram Sabareesan, Johns Hopkins University
• Kourosh Saeb-Parsy, Revalia Bio
• Suresh Sainath, Zeus Industrial Products, Inc.
• Juan Carlos Samayoa, University of Minnesota
• Sarah Scheerer, Virginia Tech
• Peter Schulam, Johnson & Johnson MedTech
• Randy Schwarz, Pacific Northwest National Lab
• Lisa Shafer, Biogen
• Kunj Sheth, Stanford Biodesign Impact
• Mahrukh Siddiqui, Virginia Tech
• Matt Simcik, University of Minnesota
• Steven St George, Ascalon Market Access
• Jeff Summers, RESBED
• M. Fareed Suri, CentraCare - St Cloud Hospital
• Martin Tanaka, Western Carolina University
• Michelle Tarver, U.S. Food & Drug Administration
• Johnna Temenoff, Georgia Tech/Emory University
• Anand Vaish, Johns Hopkins University
• Loic Van Dieren, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Pierce Vatterott, Cardiologist
• Dale Wahlstrom, Act 3, LLC Life Science Consulting
• Leanne West, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Dominika Wilczok, Duke University
• Ping Yeh, Vocxi Health

• Deidra Ansah, Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine
• Kimberly Chaffin, Medtronic
• Dan Chen, NSF ATP-Bio
• Nolan Cirillo-Penn, University of Minnesota
• Lucy Dunne, University of Minnesota
• Erik Finger, University of Minnesota
• Art Erdman, University of Minnesota
• Gwen Fischer, University of Minnesota
• Sebastian Giwa, Transplant Futures
• Robert Goldstein, AMF LifeSystems
• Balakrishna Haridas, Texas A&M University College of Engineering
• Paul Iaizzo, University of Minnesota
• Matt Johnson, University of Minnesota
• Chester Koh, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital
• Hubert Lim, University of Minnesota
• Natalie Livingston, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Michael Loushin, Twin Cities Anesthesia Associates
• Javier Navarro, University of Minnesota
• Carl Nelson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Lars Oddsson, RxFunction, Inc.
• JoJo Platt, Platt & Associates
• Matthew Powell-Palm, Texas A&M University / BioChoric Inc.
• Uzair Rajput, Instant Systems Inc.
• Mithun Suresh, University of Minnesota
• Martin Tanaka, Western Carolina University
• Korkut Uygun, Harvard Medical School
• Teri Whitman, Medtronic 

The Great Medtech Pitch Competition:
Chairs: Matt Stoll & Jessica Haupt, University of Minnesota

• Morgan Evans, Agitated Solutions Inc
• Tanner Fuchs, Boston Scientific
• Paul Gam, Zurich Medical (Retired)
• Dan Gilbertson, Medtronic
• Thom Gunderson, Piper Jaffray (Retired)
• Beth Lindborg, Sarcio, Inc.
• Eric Little, Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner
• Paul Rothweiler, Bakken Medical Devices Center

Student Design Showcase:
Chair: Will Durfee, University of Minnesota

• Leza Besemann, University of Minnesota
• Bill Betten, S3 Connected Health
• David Black, Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner (retired)
• Dan Broberg, Bakken Medical Devices Center
• Joseph Broomhead, Bakken Medical Devices Center
• Pat Dillon, MNSBIR, Inc.
• Doug Franz, University of Minnesota
• Shikha Goodwin. Mayo Clinic
• Beth Groenke, University of Minnesota
• Matthew Johnson, University of Minnesota
• Ashley Mahoney, MIN-Corps
• Carl Nelson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Carla Pavone, University of Minnesota
• Tony Reif, Peterson Enterprises
• Paul Rothweiler, University of Minnesota
• Vaughn Schmid, University of Minnesota
• Mithun Suresh, CentraCare
• Alena Talkachova, University of Minnesota
• Matthew Wettergreen, Rice University