
MedTech Frontiers, a continuing series of free events for medical device and life science investors, entrepreneurs, and technologists, announces the start of its 2010 season. Please join us for evenings of food, conversation, and presentations by Silicon Valley luminaries held on the first Thursday of each month.
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The inaugural 2010 event on Feb 4 will feature Dr. Phillip Moore,
Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at UCSF Children's Hospital. Dr. Moore is internationally recognized for his research on MRI-guided surgical procedures. He specializes in the treatment of congenital heart disease and will discuss his work developing and testing new devices and procedures.
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The March 4 event will also focus on innovations in cardiology, with a presentation by
Dr. Kendall Waters, a Research Scientist at the start-up Silicon Valley
Medical Instruments, Inc.
Dr. Waters will talk on “Minimally Invasive Image-Guided Therapy: Cardiovascular Applications.” He is an expert in ultrasound, with particular experience in the interaction of ultrasound and tissue for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. He has worked previously at Advanced Technology Laboratory of Volcano Corp, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. Dr. Waters received his PhD from Washington University in St. Louis.
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| Past Events | |
| November 5, 2009 | The Early History of MRI |
| October 1, 2009 | The Bright Future of Nuclear Medicine: PET and SPECT Imaging |
| September 3, 2009 | Electronic Brachytherapy: Localized Radiation Therapy Using a Miniature X-ray Source |
| August 6, 2009 | Photoacoustic Imaging for Biomedical Applications |
| July 9, 2009 | Too much dose? A look at X-ray Imaging Systems |
| June 4, 2009 | The CellKey™ System |
| May 7, 2009 | ASICs and IC Technologies for Medical Applications |
| April 2, 2009 | Brave New World of Personalized Medicine |
| March 5, 2009 | Optical Spectroscopy and imaging for Medical Applications |
| February 5, 2009 | High Performance Medical Imaging Applications of ATCA |