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News & Announcements

• February 15, 2012: José Wong, Director of Product Engineering at Farm, will speak on “Elements and Methods for Medical Product Design” at the Medical Design and Manufacturing (MD&M) - West Conference, Anaheim, CA.
  
  
• February 14, 2012: Mark Bonifacio, President of Bonifacio Consulting Services, LLC, will moderate a Session on “New Materials Processing Technologies for Medical Devices” and speak on “New Developments in Medical Micromolding” at the Medical Design and Manufacturing (MD&M) - West Conference, Anaheim, CA.
  
  
• January 31 - February 2, 2012: Brian Shoemaker, Principal Consultant at ShoeBar Associates, will speak on “The Shifting Landscape of Software Compliance” and present a workshop “Jump out of the Waterfall: Applying Lean Development Principles in Medical Device Software Development” at the Second Software Design for Medical Devices Europe Conference, in Munich Germany.
  
  
• January 4, 2012: WORCESTER, Mass. - Cogmedix Provides High-Precision Subassembly for LensAR Revolutionary Refractive Laser. Click here
  
  
• December 12, 2011: Robert DiLoreto, Managing Partner at Chasm Innovations, has had an article entitled “How to Accelerate Open Innovation Initiatives with Disruptive Technology” published in Innovation Management (click title to open article).
  
  
• December 8, 2011: Lisa Sasso mentored attendees at the 7th Annual Mass Conference for Women on December 8 at the Boston Convention Center, which attracted more than 7,000 women
  
  
• November 17, 2011: Randy Chinnock, CEO of Optimum Technologies (an MDG sponsor) will speak to the local section of the Optical Society of America. His talk is entitled “Smaller is Better: Ever-Shrinking Optical Components Enable Novel and More Capable Medical Devices.” For more information click here.
  
  
• October 15, 2011: Lisa Sasso was a speaker and roundtable leader for Graduate Students at the Alumni Success Stories Event at Bentley College’s Homecoming weekend.
  
  
• October 4, 2011: Lisa Sasso was a panelist and presenter for the M.O.M. Re-Launcher Program at Bentley College Center for Women and Business.
  
  
• September 22, 2011: Lisa Sasso, President & Executive Coach of Medical Development Partners, LLC. received certification as a Professional Coach (CPCC) through The Coach Training School.
  
  
• August 15, 2011: Nandini Murthy spoke in #1 of a series of RAPS webcasts on Fundamentals fo U.S. Regulatory Affairs, Introduction to FDA and Clinical Considerations (click title for more information)
  
  
• July 13, 2011: Nandini Murthy co-authored the first two chapters in the newly-released seventh edition of the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) reference guide, Fundamentals of US Regulatory Affairs. Click here to read the RAPS press release.
  
  
• May 11, 2011: Mark Dallmeyer submitted a report on the CT – Israel Technology Summit at Goodwin College in East Hartford, CT he recently attended. To read his report, click here.
  
  
• Coghlin Companies' Cogmedix partners with iWalk to Manufacture the PowerFoot BiOM. For more information, click here.
  
  
• Beth Loring, Director of Research and Usability at Farm (www.farmpd.com), will speak on " FDA Human Factors Standards and Usability Testing" at the OrthoTec Conference, Wednesday, May 25, 11:40am. For more info click here.
  
  
• David Hamacher, Managing Partner of Get Better Sales, gave the following keynote presentation, "Secrets of Sales Growth: Moving Beyond the Magic of Science and Technology to Grow Sales in Startup Companies, at the January 11th WPI Venture Forum.
  (Click here for presentation)
  
  
• Ken Toso has landed a new position as Vice President, Business Development at Bridgemedica in Walpole, MA.
  
  
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