Eight months into his job at Theranos, Tyler Shultz decided he had to speak out. “There were lots of reasons why,” he said, “But number one was that I knew for sure that people were getting hurt.” Why Tyler was one of the only Theranos employees to voice his...
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Educational Events Explore Workplace Mental Health, The Patient Experience
Mental health in the workplace and the growing consumerization of healthcare are timely and important topics for medtech innovators. Fortunately for us, and for our extended innovation community, we had the chance to hear presentations on both topics as Lunch &...
Nina Capital Shares Insights on Early-Stage Financing and Trends from Across the Pond
After 13 years working with entrepreneurs, investors, universities and corporations in Silicon Valley, Marta-Gaia Zanchi, the founding director of Stanford Biodesign’s digital health program, moved to Barcelona to launch Nina Capital. Her goal was to invest in and...
Starting with the End in Mind: Fogarty Hosts Commercialization Workshop
In January, Fogarty Education was delighted to host its second half-day workshop since resuming in-person educational programming mid last year. This time the topic was commercialization and workshop organizer FI chief commercial strategy officer, Marga...
Fogarty Innovation’s Educational Programs Thrive
Education is one of the core pillars of Fogarty Innovation. It is foundational to us as a nonprofit, and an essential tool in our efforts to elevate the medtech ecosystem. Our external-facing educational offerings range from presentations designed specifically for the...
1800 Patents & Counting: Mir Imran on curiosity, determination and which problems to solve
Foreword: The following is an abbreviated and edited transcript from the latest Medtech Trailblazers, the real stories behind the Innovators, Fogarty Innovation’s series of casual, in-depth conversations aimed at discovering the people who are forging our...
Understanding, Playing and Winning the Funding Game in 2022
Leaders of early-stage companies spend a lot of time thinking about funding. That’s why it’s not surprising that the recent financing workshop, Fogarty Education’s first half-day workshop after a nearly two years, drew heavy interest from current and former FI...
The 24th Annual Thomas J. Fogarty MD Lecture featuring Mir Imran
The Fogarty Lecture was once again a huge success with over 250 people attending both in person and virtually. Now in its 24th year, the Fogarty lectureship was established to bring together a diverse community in Silicon Valley that focuses on leaders in...
Inaugural TCT MedTech Innovation Forum Lays Outs Challenges in the Field
Every year, TCT (Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics), the world’s foremost educational meeting specializing in interventional cardiology, brings together thousands of attendees from around the world to share the newest clinical and scientific information,...
From Hands-On Projects to Life Advice, Lefteroff Interns Thrive
It was another successful summer at Fogarty Innovation, with 14 interns joining the esteemed Lefteroff internship program, that brings college students from around the United States to participate in an eight-week, hands-on program designed to cultivate and...