In this episode of GuideWire, Devin Hubbard and Gabe Li with FastTraCS talk to Dr. Alan Rosenbaum, the new clinician in residence for FastTraCS. Alan provides a sneak peek into how the FastTraCS program continues medical device innovation in the academic setting.  

Today’s Topics Include:

• Roles and Responsibilities: Providers need to give clinical perspective
• Goal: Assess and reflect on best ways for FastTraCS to use providers to solve problems
• Challenges: Knowledge and terminology to be included and integrated
• Entrepreneurship Startup Pitfalls: Create crosstalk, not compartmentalize
• I- and T-Shaped Teams: Communicate to work together and understand each other
• Benefits: Continue to work on biodesign teams to add value in different spheres
• “Right” Providers: Medicine is moving toward multidisciplinary teams, ideas, opinions
• Technology: How to drive adoption and manage unmet needs
• Bias: Based on where innovation begins—hospitals, academic programs, or clinics
• Consultation Concerns: Pigeonhole or leverage providers?

Links and Resources:

Devin Hubbard

Gabe Li

Dr. Alan Rosenbaum

FastTraCS

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Quotes:

FastTraCS: Innovate solutions to high-impact unmet medical needs by partnering with providers.

T-Shaped Team: Communicate effectively and build off everyone’s strengths.

What are the right kind of providers? There’s value in more voices rather than few.

There are innovators in all fields of medicine.