http://www.mitportugal.org/component/option,com_events/Itemid,30/agid,34/day,30/month,05/task,view_detail/year,2008/Workshop on Medical Devices
Location: University of Minho, Braga
Agenda
May 308h30- 9h00 – Registration
9h00 – 9h30 - Opening Session (Manuel Mota, Paulo Ferrão, Teófilo Leite)
9h30 – 11h00 Session 1: Product development/regulation (Chairman: Manuel Mota, Co-Chairman: Teófilo Leite)
Meghan Dierst, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, Balancing regulatory effectiveness, enterprise and innovation: US perspectives
Claudia Vaz, R&D Manager for DSM Dyneema Medical, Nederlands, Product Development Process for the Medical Device Industry
11h00 – 11h30 – Coffee-Break
11h30 – 13h00 Session 2: Clinical Economics (Chairman: Stan Finkelstein, Co-Chairman: Joaquim Cabral)
Terry Young, Chair of Healthcare Systems, Brunel University, UK, Valuing medical technology
Isabel Vaz, CEO Espírito Santo Saúde, APHP, Portugal, Medical Device Management – a Private Hospital Perspective
Stan Finkelstein Senior Research Scientist, MIT Engineering Systems Division and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, A Framework to Evaluate Biomedical Devices
13h00 – 14h30 – Lunch-Break
14h30 – 16h30 Session 3: Economic development (Chairman: Secretary of State, Prof Manuel Heitor; Co-Chairman: Prof Daniel Wang, MIT)
I - Ching Wu President, ICBiotech, Inc., Insights into National Biomedical Device Industry Development Strategy of Emerging Players
Isabel Rocha, UMinho, MIT Bio-Teams, The experience of Portuguese I-teams
Joaquim Cunha,CEO Medical Device Cluster, HCP - Health Cluster Portugal
16h30 – 17h00 – Coffee-Break
17h00 - Visit to the Exhibition 18h00 – Climbing Demonstration by Hugh Herr Free Evening
May 319h30 – 11h30 Session 4: Innovative Technologies on Medical Devices (Chairperson: Dava Newman; Co-Chairman Manuel Nunes da Ponte)
Dava Newman, Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, MIT, Designing Human-Machine Systems for Extreme Environments
Hugh Herr, MIT MediaLab MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology: The Importance of Neuromechanical Limb Models in the Design of Leg Prostheses and Orthoses
Jorge Correia Pinto, School of Medicine, UMinho: NUSS procedure for Pectus excavatum repair: the advantages of a Portuguese patent application
Luís Rocha/António Cunha, UMinho (School of Engineering, EDAM-MIT program): Medical devices: Opportunities and challenges in advanced micro-manufacturing
Braz Costa, IAPMEI Board, Member of the Steering Committee on Drug Development: Public Support to Innovation on Medical Devices
11h30 Closing session
12h00 Farewell Coffee
