Innovation in HealthTech will bring together a wide array of stakeholders to discuss the design and development of new medical device solutions to healthcare problems.
The two-day event is enabled jointly by the Ireland – Wales EU INTERREG operation CALIN and the H2020 Erasmus+ MedInvent project, in collaboration with Health Innovation Hub Ireland, University College Cork Medical Education Unit and Assert.
Event Details:
Day 1: Addressing Challenges in Medical Device Development will provide an opportunity for leading academic, clinical representatives and enterprises to initiate and develop collaborative discussions around the challenges experienced in day to day clinical practice and the wealth of state-of-the-art technology solutions available in academic and industry circles.Targeted clinical areas are respiratory medicine, emergency medicine, orthopaedic surgery and infectious diseases.
Day 2: Collaborative Healthcare Requires Collaborative Education will bring together speakers from higher education institutions and industry who will present data from diverse pedagogical approaches and models which involve researchers from the engineering, industrial design, medical and business communities to develop engineering solutions to human health problems.
Speakers Confirmed to Date:
Colman Casey - Health Innovation Hub Ireland | Eoin O’Cearbhaill - University College Dublin | Jef Vanderoost - KU Leuven | Lee Swanstrom - Oregon Clinic/IHU Strasbourg/IRCAD | Padraig Cantillon-Murphy - Tyndall National Institute | Paul Galvin - Tyndall National Institute | Simon Baconnier - EU-Nanomedicine Characterisation Laboratory | Brian Flatley - S3 Connected Health | Ciarán Duffy - Health, Enterprise Ireland | Corinna Sadlier - Cork University Hospital | Larry O'Dwyer - Health Products Regulatory Authority Ireland | Marcus Kennedy - Cork University Hospital | Stephen Brennan - Bon Secours Hospital, Cork | Jason van der Velde - MEDICO Cork
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The programme for the event is available here.
CALIN is an Ireland Wales 2014-2020 programme part funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Government, which aims to support the life sciences sector by initiating collaboration between partner universities and SMEs in the two regions. For more information, visit www.calin.ie or email info@calin.ie
MedInvent is an EU Erasmus+ funded project that involves the development of an online personalized learning environment with a view to extending creativity and innovation skills in medical device design to HEI students and SME-based learners. For more information, visit http://medinvent-project.eu/