Academy of Innovation

How do you begin begin as a medical technology innovator?
What lessons can you learn from experienced inventors?
How can you improve your chances of success?

Join us for the Academy of Innovation day! DON’T MISS out on this wonderful opportunity to expand upon the unique skills needed in order to develop new biomedical technologies and take the critical first steps innvention, patenting,early prototyping and development of new concepts.

The program is still subject to Changes

Sunday, December 10th, 2023

Academy of Innovation – Developing New Cardiovascular Therapies: In Person Workshop – Sunday, December 10th, 2023

08:00-08:30

Registration and Breakfast

8:30 -9:00

Welcome and Insights to Future Innovators: Prof. Chaim Lotan, Prof. Rafi Beyar, Israel

9:00 – 9:20

Workshop Introduction: Prof. Paul A. Iaizzo, USA (confirmed) Each participant should have ready a laboratory notebook and go online and download the free “Handbook of Innovation (Durfee & Iaizzo)”: https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/mdih/ Provide a participant list (with contact info, voluntary) be shared amongst those signed up:

9:20 – 9:50

Trends in Device Development. William Durfee, USA

9:50 – 10:15

Identifying Opportunities, Eric Richardson, USA

10:15-10:40

Testing Your Medical Device Idea: Bench Tests, Pre-Clinical, Clinical Trials. Paul Iaizzo, USA

10:40-11:00

“Networking Break”

11:00-11:30

Essentials of Creativity – Sketching, Notebooks and Documenting. Paul A. Iaizzo, USA

11:30-11:50

How to raise funds to support your innovation start up. Danielle Nusimovici-Avadis, MD, MedTech SMEs LTD’s CEO

11:50-12:10

Innovation Exercise I. Durfee & Iaizzo.

12:10 -13:00

Working Lunch with Box Lunches: Protecting your Intellectual Property through Patents. TBD

13:00-13:30

Bioconvergence Design- Education and Training: Yona Vaisbuch, Hebrew University, Israel

13:30-14:00

Global Medical Device Markets. Edna Lazar, Edwards Lifesciences, Israel

14:00-14:30

Innovation Exercise II. Durfee & Iaizzo

14:30-14:50

Networking break

14:50-15:20

The Role of Medical Device Regulations (EU and FDA): MacKenna Roberts General Counsel, Life Sciences Litigation and Regulatory Lawyer, London, Greater London, United Kingdom

15:20-15:40

The Corporate View of Technology Assessment and Acquisitions: pitching your ideas Xavier Pardo, Switzerland

15:40-16:20

Innovation Exercise III: Develop a New Cardiovascular Product: Identify the Need and Build the Prototype

16:20-16:50

Artificial Intelligence and Medicine – The New Horizon for Health. Peter J. Fitzgerald, USA

16:50-17:20

Q&A (Moderator: Prof. Iaizzo). Prof. Rafael Beyar, Prof. Chaim Lotan, Prof. Eric Richardson, MacKenna Roberts JD, Xavier Pardo, Dr. Peter J. Fitzgerald, Prof. Yona Vaisbuch, Prof. Will Durfee, Edna Lazar

Each participant should bring a laboratory notebook and go online and download the free “Handbook of Innovation (Durfee & Iaizzo)”: z.umn.edu/mdih

Group Facilitators:

Will Durfee

Paul Iaizzo

Edna Lazar

Xavier Pardo

Eric Richardson

Mackenna Roberts