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BioVenture Luncheon Series:Sustainable Design for Medical Devices

Rochester BioVenture Center 77 Ridgeland Road, Rochester, NY

Responding to the Market Demand for "Green" Medical Devices

With increased social and regulatory pressures to reduce waste, particularly medical wastes, now is the time to understand and adopt sustainable practices for the design and manufacture of medical devices.  Embracing sustainable practices now will give your company advantages in product differentiation as well as in increased profits that often result from taking a systems view of a product’s life cycle.

This session includes presentations from practitioners in academia and industry that will share their insights on practices that can be used to improve sustainability, as well as profitability, for new medical devices.

Featuring:

Dr. Anahita Williamson, Director, NYS Pollution Prevention Institute at RIT

• Expertise in Manufacturing Process Modification for Improved Material Recovery  and Reuse, Design for the Environment, Life-cycle Assessment

Ian Edwards, Senior Director, Corporate Technology Officer, Welch Allyn, Inc.

• Expertise in early stage diagnostic device concepts and industrial design portfolio management

Who should attend:

• Entrepreneurs
• Early-stage Companies
• Medical Device Inventors and Medical Researchers
• Medical Product Manufacturers
• Suppliers to Medical Device Companies

FREE to attend; Registration is required
Light lunch will be available

 

Space is limited so register early!
Click below to register by Monday, May 14, 2012
 

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