Season 1 - Episode 7: Clinician in Residence as Part of Innovation Programs (Part 1)

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.