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Wednesday, 19
September
Track 1: Design
9:00–9:30
Innovation and Product Development in the Medical Device Industry in Ireland
Speaker: Tom Fitzmaurice, Vice President, R&D, Medtronic AVE
9:30–10:00
Humanizing Technology for Innovation
Speaker: Alun Wilcox, Head of Medical Device Design, PDD, Product Innovation
Consultants
10:00–10:30
Methods and Technologies for Successful Products
Speaker: Harald Egner, Deputy Director, Fraunhofer TEG Stuttgart
Becoming
a World-Class SME—What Does it Take?
Speaker: John Hill, Managing Director, Pera Technology
11:00–12:00
Rapid Prototyping of Silicon Models of the Aorta, with and without Aneurysm,
for the In-Vitro Testing of Stent-grafts Subjected to Pulsating Flow
Speakers:
Patrick Delassus, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, Galway Mayo Institute
of Technology; Daniel Boyle, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, Galway
Mayo Institute of Technology
Efficiency
Strategies for the Design of Coronary Stents using the Finite Element
Method
Speakers: Gerard O’Donnell, Lecturer/Project Supervisor, Galway Mayo
Institute of Technology; Martin Burke, Research Engineer, Galway Mayo
Institute of Technology
13:30–14:00
Finite Element Analysis in Biomedical Engineering and the Design of Medical
Devices
Speaker: Peter McHugh, Senior Lecturer, National University of Ireland,
Galway
14:00–14:30
Monitoring Bioactivity with the Light-Emitting Protein Pholasin (Part
1)
Speaker: Jan Knight, Managing Director, Knight Scientific Ltd.
14:30–15:00
Monitoring Bioactivity with the Light-Emitting Protein Pholasin (Part
2)
Speaker: Jan Knight, Managing Director, Knight Scientific Ltd.
15:15–16:45
Bioactive Materials: Biocompatibility Testing for a New Generation of
“Smart” Medical Devices
Speaker: Brian J. Meenan, Senior Lecturer, The Northern Ireland Bio-Engineering
Centre (NIBEC)/School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University
of Ulster
Track
2: Manufacturing
9:00–10:00
Some Novel Directions for Biomedical Materials in a New Century
Speaker: Seamus PJ Higson, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Materials, University
of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)
10:00–10:30
Selecting the Right Adhesive for your Medical Application and Making It
Work in Production
Speaker: Bob Goss, Senior Technology Specialist, Henkel Loctite Adhesives
Ltd.
11:00–12:00
Supply Chain Management in the Medical Device Market—Materials Procurement
and Product Dispersement
Speaker: Christian Hay, Attorney-at-Law, Head of Office, Geneva e-mediate
Ltd.
13:30–14:00
Do We Thermoform or Pouch Pack? It’s a Medical Matter. . .
Speaker: Noel Blake, Sales Manager, Doyen Medipharm Ltd.
14:00–14:30
Developments in Barrier Packaging
Speaker: Nic Hunt, Marketing and Technology Director, Rexam Medical Packaging
14:30–15:00
Package Development—A Case Study
Speaker: Rolande Hall, Head of Packaging Engineering, Stryker Howmedica
Osteonics
15:15–16:00
Packaging Process Validation Made Easy
Speaker: Anthony Rooney, Manager, ProCad Compliance
16:00–16:45
Medical Packaging Integrity Testing—An Overview
Speaker: Stephen H. Franks, Executive Vice President, T.M. Electronics
Thursday,
20 September
Track 1: Quality
9:00–10:00
Regulatory Tools for Medical Device Designers— Regulatory Compliance
in the Design Process
Speaker: Richard Sharp, Senior Consultant, Quintiles Consulting—MTC
Regulatory
Support to Medical Device Design
Speaker: John Brennan, Operations Manager (MDD/IVDD), National Standards
Authority of Ireland
10:00–10:45,
11:15–12:00
Designing for Compliance with QSR/ISO— Similarities and Differences
Speakers: Bonnie Norman, President, The Taregon Group; Elaine Messa, Vice
President, Quintiles Consulting
13:30–14:30
Statistical Tools for Process Validation
Speaker: Gerry McCaffrey, Consultant, Medical Device Compliance
14:30–15:30
Meeting the New Risk Management Standard for Medical Devices
Speaker: Geetha Rao, Partner, Healthcare and Medical Devices, John Cabot
International
Track
2: Manufacturing
9:00–10:00
Innovation Strategy within the Polymer Processing Industry
Speaker: Polymer Development Centre Representative
10:00–10:45
Developing Healthcare Concepts through Medical Injection Moulding
Speaker: Breda McCollum, Moulding Process Engineering Manager, Donegal
HealthCare Ltd.
11:15–12:00
Laser Techniques Applied to Joining Technologies
Speaker: Richard Sherlock, Senior Research Scientist, National Centre
for Laser Applications
13:30–14:30
Examining the Pricing Models: Outsourcing in Europe versus North America
Speaker: Bill J. Wood, Senior Vice President, Product Development and
Technology, Colorado MEDtech
14:30–15:30
Fast Ramp-Up Concept of the Telecom Business Can Be Utilized in the Development
of New Medical Devices
Speaker: Johan Lindqvist, Marketing Manager, Perlos Pharma
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