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.