MEDICAL DEVICES:
The Power of Small

PROGRAM SPONSOR

The promises of miniaturization, including MEMS technology and nanotechnology, both entice and excite scientists and investors, and products incorporating such miniaturization are finally finding their way into the marketplace. Advances in engineered materials and miniaturization of structures and electronics have always had a major role in defining the cutting edge of medical devices and the opportunities opened up by MEMS technology and nanotechnology are destined to play a similar role. In the process, new opportunities arise, and the positions of established players may be challenged. Join us as our expert presenters and panelists help us decide on the best practices for building long term success and explore where the opportunities lie.

In this program, we will explore the emerging opportunities in the medical device field and address issues, such as:

• Where are the emerging opportunities in the miniaturized medical device field?
• What will the miniaturized medical device field landscape look like in five years?
• What are the pitfalls in starting and growing successful miniaturized medical device companies?
• What are the areas to avoid?
• What skill sets, particularly cross-technology skill sets, are needed to succeed in small medical devices in the future?
• What types of management teams are important for success the emerging medical device industry?
• What are the major concerns of investors in the small medical device industry? How are such concerns best addressed?
• How can an entrepreneur without specific technical skills succeed in founding and growing as medical device company? Our presenters and panelists will answer these questions and more.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Bill Van Antwerp
Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer
Medtronic/MiniMed

PRESENTERS

Richard Piazza
President
Therafuse, Inc., a maker of wearable insulin infusion pumps

Amit Rikhy
Chief Financial Officer
Anamed, Inc., a maker of ultra-thin intracorneal lenses using engineered materials that are currently marketed in Europe and in Phase 2 clinical trials in U.S.

PANELISTS

Dr. Rae E. Drazin
President
Science Consultants to Industry

Mark Kroll, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer
St. Jude Medical, Inc.

Ron Lebel
President
Medical Research Products, Inc., a maker of artificial pancreas

Alex Suh
Managing Director
California Technology Ventures, a Southern California venture capital firm that focuses its investments in early stage companies in the fields of life sciences and information technology

Alice H. Muntz, Ph. D.
Associate Director of Development, Chief Operating Officer
UCLA Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration

MODERATOR

Russell K. Frandsen
Attorney at Law
Squire Sanders & Dempsey, LLP

PRODUCERS

Susan Prado
Executive Director
Pasadena Bioscience Center

Daniel R. 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 and Complimentary Dinner:
5:30 p.m. at Chandler Dining Hall

Program:
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall

Cost
$35.00 per person ($10 for full-time students with student ID's; free to Caltech students and faculty)

Registrations are taken by fax, email and on-line up to 12:00 noon the day of the event. Pre-registration and pre-payment are required for this event. There are no refunds for no-shows.

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