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Save the Date for MedtechVISION 2012:
September 11, 2012
Rosewood Sand Hill
Menlo Park, California

MedtechVision 2011

In September 2011, 200 women from across the United States gathered at the Rosewood Sand Hill in Menlo Park, Calif., for MedtechVision 2011 – the first-ever conference designed by and for women on the forefront of medical innovation.

The sold-out conference featured more than 30 panelists and speakers, including business leaders, inventors, investors, physicians and policymakers.  Discussions centered on finding solutions to the most pressing issues in the medical technology industry today – critical topics such as reimbursement, FDA pathways, financing, health care reform, and emerging markets.  In lively discussions, entrepreneurs and first-time CEOs shared their experiences as leaders of their organizations.

Keynote speakers included Ginger Graham, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, former president and CEO of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, and former group chairman at Guidant Corporation, who spoke on trends that will impact the future of health care; Ellen Zane, president and CEO of Tufts Medical Center, who discussed the potential impact of health care reform from a provider perspective; and Bray Patrick-Lake, president and CEO of the PFO Research Foundation, who offered her thoughts, as a patient advocate, on the state of health care today.

Conference panelists included physicians from Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, El Camino Hospital of Mountain View, Calif., Stanford University, the University of Massachusetts, and the Yale Cardiovascular Research Group; executives from Covidien, Abbott, Medtronic, UnitedHealth, Johnson & Johnson, Ardian, Vibrynt, Versant Ventures, MPM Capital and many others; and non-profit and government leaders from WomenHeart, AdvaMed, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).

Covidien, a leading global healthcare products company, was the lead sponsor of the event.  Additional sponsors included Abbott, Fish & Richardson, Essex Woodlands, Mohr Davidow Ventures, the Society of Kaufmann Fellows, the Kauffman Foundation, Silicon Valley Bank, Elsevier Business Intelligence and Stanford BioDesign.