In this episode of AbbottTalks, Sandra Lesenfants, SVP of Abbott’s structural heart business, discusses the latest advancements in structural heart care, focusing on Abbott's transformative TriClip device for tricuspid regurgitation.

Lesenfants highlights Abbott’s commitment to patient-centered innovation, emphasizing the importance of creating solutions that meet patients’ needs through safe and effective technologies. She also shares Abbott’s approach to expanding access to minimally invasive therapies, particularly in underserved populations worldwide, and the role of physician partnerships in advancing structural heart interventions.

Lastly, Lesenfants underscores the company’s efforts to increase diversity in clinical trials, noting the importance of intentional inclusivity across gender and ethnicity to better serve diverse patient populations.

Thank you to Confluent Medical Technologies for sponsoring this episode of AbbottTalks. For more information on how Confluent Medical works with medical device companies, visit https://confluentmedical.com/.

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Abbott’s Lesenfants shares TriClip progress, patient-centered innovation & clinical trial diversity

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Host Tom Salemi unpacks the career of Tesh Elavia, vice president of research and development at BD’s surgery division. Elavia’s parents strongly encouraged him to leave his home in India to study in the states. Listeners will hear how he built that uncertain start into a stellar MedTech career.

This episode is sponsored by FPT. Learn more about the company in the podcast or visit FPTsoftware.com

MassDevice Editor Chris Newmarker kicks this off with the Newmarker’s Newsmakers - Edwards Lifesciences, GE Healthcare, Movano Health, Boston Scientific and layoffs in the MedTech Industry.

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BD’s Tesh Elavia unpacks his own career, suggests new engineers don’t shy away from challenges

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