In this episode, Host, Christine Dobbyn, interviews Bret Boudousquie, CEO & Founder, Stratus Medical. Bret describes founding Stratus Medical in 2020, financings, product development, clinical, regulatory, and commercialization efforts. He also discusses their flagship product, NIMBUS, which is advancing RF technology for pain, and providing predictable and durable pain relief to many, including team members, family, friends, and customers.Bret Boudousquie founded Stratus® Med...

In this episode, Host, Christine Dobbyn, interviews Jeff Smith, Co-founder & CEO, Providence Medical Technology. Jeff describes co-founding Providence Medical Technology in 2008, financings, product development, clinical, regulatory, and commercialization efforts. He also discusses his own podcast, Unmet Need, and his mentorship of other entrepreneurs.Jeff is a healthcare entrepreneur with global experience in life sciences. He co-founded Providence Medical Technology in 2008 ...

In this episode, Host, Christine Dobbyn, interviews Jon Block, Ph.D., Medical Device Consultants. Dr. Block talks about everything from what a medical device consultant does, his path to becoming a trial design and manuscript preparation expert in the spine field, to starting a yacht company with his brother.Jon Block, Ph.D. is a seasoned health care executive, entrepreneur and philanthropist with extensive academic and industry experience and demonstrated success in orthopedic and musc...

In this episode, Host, Christine Dobbyn, interviews Suzanne Manzi, MD, Co-founder of Performance Pain and Sports Medicine & Host of Pain Diaries. Dr. Manzi talks about her path to interventional pain medicine, innovative treatments, the creation of The Society of Women Innovators in Pain Management (WIPM) and how she started Pain Diaries.Dr. Suzanne Manzi, MD, provides interventional pain management, electrodiagnostic testing, and weight management at Performance Pain and Sports Med...

In this episode, Host, Christine Dobbyn, interviews Neal Rakesh, MD, MSE, Assistant Attending at Memorial Sloane Kettering and Host of The Ouchcast podcast. This episode was recorded live from the exhibit hall floor at NANS 2023. Dr. Rakesh talks about his path to interventional pain medicine, his involvement with the World Academy of Pain Medicine United, and The Ouchcast podcast.Dr. Neal RakeshNeal Rakesh, MD, MSE, is a physiatrist and pain medicine physician. He specializes in interv...

In this episode, Host, Christine Dobbyn, interviews Meagan R. Pitcher, Ph.D., CLP, CEO of Bairitone Health. Meagan and her colleagues, Britt Cross, DO, CMO and Onur Kilic, PhD, CTO are doing great work on innovative wearable technology that will be used to identify airway collapse during natural sleep*.Bairitone Health was a Texas Medical Center Innovation Biodesign fellowship start-up, SBIR grant recipient & Creative Destruction Lab participant. Meagan discusses this journey and th...

In this episode, Host, Christine Dobbyn, interviews medical device industry expert, Tom Luby, Ph.D., Director of Texas Medical Center (TMC) Innovation. In this episode, he discusses his experience in the medical device field, what the TMC Innovation center is, everything they do for medical start up companies and the community, and the future of the Texas Medical Center.Tom Luby, Ph.D.Tom Luby, Ph.D., is the Director of Texas Medical Center (TMC) Innovation. In this role, he overs...

In this episode, Host, Christine Dobbyn interviews medical device industry experts, Daniel Powell, CEO of Spark Biomedical & Bruce Lichorowic, CEO of Galen Robotics. In this episode, they discuss their companies, experience in the medical device field, as well as the Startup Symposium in Houston, Texas at TMCi.Daniel PowellDaniel Powell co-founded and serves as CEO of Spark Biomedical, the developer of the FDA cleared Sparrow Therapy System; a novel, wearable neurostimulation soluti...

In this episode, Host, Christine Dobbyn interviews medical device industry experts, Lance Black, MD, MBID, Senior Medical Director of 3ive Labs & Kurtis Parker, Managing Director at 360 Advisory Group. In this episode, they discuss their companies, experience in the medical device field, as well as the Startup Symposium in Houston, Texas at TMCi. This episode was recorded live from the Startup Symposium in Houston, Texas at TMC Innovation. Lance and Kurtis discusses their experience...

In this episode, Christine Dobbyn interviews medical device industry expert, Duane Mancini, Managing Partner and CEO of Project Medtech. This episode was recorded live from the Startup Symposium in Houston, Texas at TMC Innovation. Duane discusses the Project Medtech Podcast, medical device startup ecosystem, and the Startup Symposium.Duane ManciniDuane has extensive experience in go-to-market strategy including regulatory & reimbursement, biocompatibility, pre-clinical efficacy tes...

In this episode, Host, Christine Dobbyn interviews medical device industry experts, Giovanni Lauricella, Managing Partner of Lifeblood Capital, Partner, Project Medtech, Medtech Money, & Aaron TenHuisen, Partner, Project Medtech. In this episode, they discuss the Project Medtech & Medtech Money podcasts. The upcoming Startup Symposium in Houston, Texas at TMCi and Proxima on October 6-7, 2022. Giovanni LauricellaGiovanni Lauricella is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Lifebl...

In this episode, we were live from the ASPN 2022 Annual meeting exhibit floor. Our host, Christine Dobbyn, from Dobbyn Digital Media, interviews Dr. Anthony Giuffrida, Dr. Helen Blake, WIPM president elect, Dr. Mayank Gupta, KSIPP president and CEO, and Eric Hyman, New Product Development Lead for Stratus Medical. The discussion is wide ranging and includes why ASPN was created, the collaboration to improve patient care, importance of clinical evidence, appeal to interventional pain med...

In this episode, we were live from the ASPN 2022 Annual meeting exhibit floor. Our host, Christine Dobbyn, from Dobbyn Digital Media, interviews Dr. Dawood Sayed, ASPN Co-founder and Vice Chairman, Dr. Johnathan Goree, ASPN Leadership Council, Dr. Jake Measom, ASPN Young Innovator and recent UNM Interventional Pain Fellow, and Bret Boudousquie, CEO of Stratus Medical. The discussion is wide ranging and includes why ASPN was created, the collaboration to improve patient care, importance of cli...