NEMIC’s Med Tech Leadership Program in Partnership with Real Jobs RI Concludes with an Educational Pitch Night Showcasing 12 Rhode Island based Entrepreneurs
NEMIC’s Med Tech Leadership Program in Partnership with Real Jobs RI Concludes with an Educational Pitch Night Showcasing 12 Rhode Island based Entrepreneurs
Providence, RI - June 29, 2020 – The New England Medical Innovation Center (NEMIC), New England’s Premier Med Tech Venture Studio who supports innovators to bring their medical ideas forward, announces the completion of their 9-month, 16 class, 8 workshop education program. The Med Tech Leadership Program, in partnership with Real Jobs Rhode Island, is a demand-driven workforce and economic development initiative designed to train the next generation of entrepreneurs, startup executives, and industry professionals in Rhode Island’s medical technology ecosystem.
The program curriculum was created based on firsthand research interviews with industry leaders, CEOs, angel investors, venture capitalists, and seasoned Med Tech entrepreneurs. The intent of this program is to banish the unknown unknowns of medical technology development, streamline the commercialization process for startups and industry professionals, and foster investable and successful companies with regulated technologies. You can learn more about the research that shaped the curriculum of this program here. The classes and workshops were organized into 6 modules: Foundation, Regulated Product Development, Market + Defensibility, Building a Company, Funding a Company, and Pitching a Company.
On the eve of Tuesday, June 29th, 12 participants graduated the Entrepreneur Track of the program with a final pitch night combining all they have learned over the past 9 months in a pitch to their peers, class instructors, and local industry leaders. Participants of the Entrepreneur Track were required to complete 33 hours of classes and workshops but, many chose to attend all 56 hours.
The Entrepreneur Track graduates included:
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Dom Messerli, MBA, President & CEO at LENOSS MEDICAL, LLC
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Ziya Gokaslan, MD, FAANS, FACS, Neurosurgeon-in-Chief, Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital and is the director of the Comprehensive Spine Center at Rhode Island Hospital, and clinical director of the Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute.
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Mustafa Mazlumoglu, MBA, Director of Neurosurgery & Neurosurgical Innovation at Lifespan
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Jonghwan Lee, Phd, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Brown University
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Abigail Kohler, Co-Founder & CEO at ResusciTech
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Gregory Boudreau-Fine, Co-Founder and CTO of ResusciTech
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Geanina Oana Costea, MD, MBA, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University and Unit Chief and Psychiatrist, Children’s Inpatient Program at Lifespan/Bradley Hospital
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Nicholas Constant BASc, Research Assistant at URI
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Mike Molinski, Senior Scientist at Audience Inc.
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Aakash Setty, Undergraduate Researcher at Brown University and R&D Intern at MedTronic
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Maria Grazia Rucocco, PhD, MBA, Business Development Manager, Lab-on-Chip
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Nicholas Grumbach, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, The Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University
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16 other participants attended at least one class or workshop throughout the entirety of the program.
NEMIC has received amazing feedback on the program from the array of participants. Dr. Gokaslan said, “The course has been truly amazing and have met all of our expectations and exceeded them. The structure was great! The courses took you through whole journey and have been very educational. The staff has been amazing! We truly enjoyed the whole experience. It was definitely difficult to carve the time out for this effort but at the end it was certainly worthwhile.” His collaborator Mustafa Mazlumoglu added, "I want to thank the entire NEMIC Team. It has been a wonderful experience to be a part of [this program] and I learned a lot. It has been a great program and I am sure that we will hear many great things in the future about this program.”
Brown University undergrad student, Aakash Setty took this program in conjunction with his courses at Brown to expand his knowledge of the Med Tech industry and learning more about opportunities to work in the industry after medical school. “Thank you NEMIC for creating this platform to learn from your team and advisors. I really valued all the conversations I have been able to have with the rest of the cohort during our classes. I really appreciate all the little advice and conversations, before and after class, that I was able to learn small tidbits from my peers. "
NEMIC’s Med Tech Leadership Program will be accepting applications to participate in early Fall 2020. You can sign up for alerts for when applications open for the Med Tech Leadership Program here.
About the New England Medical Innovation Center (NEMIC)
The New England Medical Innovation Center (NEMIC) is a not-for-profit Med Tech Venture Studio located in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. We support local, regional, and global Med Tech entrepreneurs and startups on their path to commercialization through education, advisory services, events, network, and a collaborative innovation center. Founded by Managing Partners, Aidan Petrie and Lydia Shin Schroter in late 2017, NEMIC has decades of combined medical device development and entrepreneurial experience. But what makes our work so impactful is our extensive network of local expert advisors and subject matter experts who simplify clinical access, regulatory (FDA) strategy/pathways, and ultimately facilitate connections between early stage startups and funding sources.
Navigating a regulated industry is hard. NEMIC can help. www.nemicenter.com
About Real Jobs Rhode Island
Real Jobs RI is a state and federally funded, competitive workforce and economic development grant program launched by Governor Raimondo in 2015. To date, Real Jobs RI partnerships have developed workforce solutions for nearly 800 local employers, connected 3,132 Rhode Islanders to employment and upskilled more than 3,119 incumbent workers and entrepreneurs.