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Fireside Chat with Katie Szyman, Corporate Vice President, Critical Care at Edwards Lifesciences

UCLA Biodesign's Hub for Digital Health and Medtech Innovation - Women in Healthtech Leadership Series A Fireside Chat with Katie Szyman, Corporate Vice President, Critical Care at Edwards Lifesciences   Join Katie Szyman for a conversation about her career journey, lessons learned across corporate leadership and how she and her teams are shaping the future of AI and Predictive Medicine. Katie Szyman has been corporate vice president since 2015 and is currently responsible for the company’s global critical care and vascular business. Prior to joining Edwards, Szyman held a variety of roles with increasing levels of responsibility for more than 20 years at Medtronic. She served as president of Medtronic’s global diabetes business for five years, overseeing research, [...]

Fireside chat with Surbhi Sarna: From Patient to Impatient Entrepreneur to a $275m Exit

Join Surbhi Sarna as she sits down with UCLA Biodesign's Medtech & Digital Health Innovation Hub to share her entrepreneurial journey from a healthy, young adolescent to a patient to an impatient entrepreneur to a $275MM exit. When she was 13, Surbhi was a patient. It was then that she realized she wanted to fill the void in female-health related innovation. She attended UC Berkeley, where she studied Molecular and Cell Biology and conducted extensive research in Bioengineering. Once graduating, she worked as an engineer for Abbott Vascular and then another device start-up. Finally, she decided to tackle some of the issues she witnessed in women’s health and became CEO and founder of nVision Medical. nVision developed a [...]

AdvaMed’s Women Executive Network Conference

Registration link: https://www.advamed.org/events/womens-executive-network-wen-conference-0 "Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, a unique type of leadership has been critical towards effectively navigating and responding to this extraordinary  challenge. Leading during an uncertain, ever-evolving crisis requires resilience, agility and a high level of empathy. As we continue to navigate the new business, professional and personal challenges brought on by the pandemic, it’s more important than ever for executives to incorporate these qualities in their leadership style. Across this unique one-day conference, we’ll feature a range of executives from the medical device and corporate world to discuss various issues pertaining to this year's theme, Future of Medtech: Leading with Resilience, Agility and Empathy. We welcome all medtech professionals to participate in this highly interactive and [...]

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LA Best 2021

The Los Angeles Bioscience Ecosystem Summit 2021 (LABEST) is the premier showcase for bioscience innovation in Los Angeles County. This event is a collaboration with colleagues from across the county to present promising academic research, entrepreneurial faculty investigators, as well as local start- up companies. It is intended to promote awareness of the growing life science entrepreneurial ecosystem in Los Angeles and to foster partnerships with the biotechnology and life science industry. The conference is entirely virtual this year. Throughout the summit, faculty members present the latest scientific breakthroughs, which will lead to the critical therapies of tomorrow. Leading bioscience translational research programs and start-ups will be showcased where Southern California Institutions have significant expertise, pioneering research and resource [...]

Using Good AI to Fight Evil AI in Healthcare

UCLA Anderson School of Management is hosting "Using Good AI to Fight Evil AI in Healthcare" - a fireside with Tucker Herbert MBA '14. For more details, see below (original text from Anderson website). The future has arrived.  AI is determining the fate of human lives; while it may not appear as dramatic as envisioned in Terminator, the challenge is just as real. There is increasing awareness of how some algorithms have reinforced healthcare disparities given the bias of historical data they were trained on.  This can hinder the adoption of innovative therapies and have grave consequences on patients' lives. Fortunately, others are countering this by leveraging AI and data to: Shed light on healthcare disparities and support [...]

UCLA Biodesign Fellows – Fast Pitch Event

UCLA Biodesign Fellows - Fast Pitch Event Keynotes: VELYS Digital Surgery at DePuy Synthes Worldwide President Sharrolyn Transfeldt Josse UCLA Anderson School of Management, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and UCLA Health Leaders Antonio Bernardo, Kelsey Martin, Stephen Smale, Johnese Spisso Monday, June 21st, 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. PDT UCLA community, our supporters and the public are welcome to join via Zoom REGISTER: http://uclahs.fyi/biodesign-2021 Participate & vote for your favorite HealthTech solution   Join the UCLA Biodesign Program leadership, Desert Horse Grant, Jennifer McCaney, PhD and Nirav Kamdar, MD, MPH alongside UCLA Biodesign Advisory Committee members, Johnese Spisso, President of UCLA Health and CEO of UCLA Hospitals and Clinics, Antonio Bernardo, PhD, Dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management, Kelsey Martin, MD, PhD, Dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Stephen Smale, [...]

Telehealth 3.0: What’s in store for the future of telehealth?

The Healthcare Alumni of Anderson will hold a conversation about the future of telehealth on July 23 at 12 p.m PST. During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was becoming a more popular health care option. This event will explore the next stage of telehealth, discussing its future, its central challenges and how to measure its success. The panel will feature David Woroboff, CEO of 24/7 Call-a-Doc, and Sara Vaezy, chief of digital and growth strategy at Providence. Di Jiang, director of Integrated Project Management, will moderate the panel.

Decoding the Development and Launch of a Digital Health Product – From Concept to FDA Clearance

Date/Time: August 26th, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT Register here: http://uclahs.fyi/biodesign-2021 Event Description: Join UCLA Biodesign for a guest lecture by Paul Upham, Head of Smart Devices at Roche / Genentech, for a discussion on the development of a digital health product at the forefront of technology and breakthrough science. During this talk, you will hear how Roche successfully developed and launched a regulated SaMD product in less than six months as well as the lifecycle of a regulated SaMD product from a regulatory, privacy and security perspective. Speaker Bio: Paul Upham is the Head of Smart Devices at Roche / Genentech. Paul has 20+ years of experience in medical device R&D, strategic marketing, product management, clinical [...]

UCLA Biodesign Informational Webinar

Learn more about the UCLA Biodesign Program and Fellowship. Applications are open now until September 30, 2021. Moderated Q&A with Dr. Jennifer McCaney, Co-Executive Director of UCLA Biodesign and Dr. Nirav Kamdar, Clinical Director of UCLA Biodesign. Visit our website at https://biodesign.ucla.edu/

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Medical Design Briefs: Sensors, Apps, and Wearables: The Future of Medical Diagnostics

Medical Design Briefs: Sensors, Apps, and Wearables: The Future of Medical Diagnostics Wearables and medical apps have evolved from simple accessories to real-time and noninvasive biosensors, allowing for the continuous monitoring of individuals and providing information for determining health status and even preliminary medical diagnosis. In addition, wearable biosensors allow healthcare providers to monitor the physiological traits of patients after therapeutics or treatments. This 60-minute Webinar from the editors of Medical Design Briefs examines some of these solutions and explores their role in the future of healthcare. Topics include: Low-cost rapid manufacturing of diagnostic sensors Wireless, self-powered diagnostic systems Portable, wearable point-of-care devices for cell, protein, and small molecule quantification Al-enabled biosensors Designing for Digital First Encounters Downstream impact of [...]

UCLA CTSI-RAP Innovation in Care Conference

Healthcare innovation continually improves patient outcomes and the way medicine is approached. Despite the variety in technology and medicinal approaches, these innovations all have one fundamental commonality -- they all start out with an idea. CTSI-RAP invites you to pitch YOUR idea to leaders of innovation and entrepreneurship at our Innovation in Care Conference on January 28th, 2022 via Zoom from 1-4PM PST! The Innovation in Care Conference will feature industry and professional guest speakers on topics of healthcare and technology, along with a student-lead healthcare hackathon with prizes, where students will work in teams to pitch ideas to our panel of judges. The deadline to register is Thursday January 27th at 5pm. Event Schedule: Welcome & Hackathon [...]

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