VENTURING IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES

PROGRAM SPONSOR

Please join our panel for a discussion on new ventures in medical devices and what entrepreneurs want to know about:

• Where are the emerging opportunities in the medical device field?
• What will the medical device field landscape look like in five years?
• What are the pitfalls in starting and growing successful medical device companies?
• What are the areas to avoid?

SPEAKERS

Mark Kroll, Ph.D.
Sr. Vice President and CTO, Cardiac Rhythm Management Division
St. Jude Medical, Inc.

Anthony T. Materna, Ph.D.
Acting President
Tinnitus Mitigation Systems, LLC.
President
ACODA Technology and Investments, LLC

PANELISTS

Farhad Daghighian, Ph.D.
President and Chief Scientist
IntraMedical Imaging, LLC (entrepreneur)

Sharon Stevenson, Ph.D., DVM
Principal
Domain Associates, LLC (life science investor)

Emilio Fontana
Co-Founder and Partner
Lared Group (strategic alliance specialist)

Judy Reavis, Ph.D.
President
Hermes Systems Management (regulatory affairs expert)

Andy Rasdal
President and CEO
DexCom, Inc. (entrepreneur)

MODERATOR

Daniel Kimbell
Attorney at Law
Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

PRODUCER

Daniel Kimbell
Attorney at Law
Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS MEETING FROM

CHRISTIE PARKER HALE

Christie, Parker and Hale LLP is a Pasadena-based intellectual property law firm. The firm was founded over forty years ago, and now has over thirty lawyers who specialize in the law of patents, copyrights, trademarks, unfair competition, and related technological, licensing and litigation issues. The lawyers of the firm have expertise and experience in a broad range of technologies, including computer hardware and software, semiconductors, electronics, communications, physics, chemistry and chemical engineering, biotechnology, materials science, and mechanical engineering.

LOCATION AND TIME
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California

Registration, Networking and Complimentary Dinner
5:30 p.m. at Beckman Institute Courtyard

Program
Program: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Beckman Institute Auditorium

Cost
$35.00 per person ($10 for full-time students - student ID required: free to Caltech students and faculty

Registrations are taken by fax, email and on-line up to noon the day of the event. Pre-registration and pre-payment are required for this event. There are no refunds for no-shows.

FOR INFORMATION

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626 395-3916 Fax: 626 795-7174
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