In this week’s episode, we’ll hear pitches from the 10 start-ups that have been selected as finalists for Medtech Color’s Pitch Competition.

BIOMED – Bobby Ntoya
IllumifyDx - Maria Navas-Moreno 
JuneBrain – Samantha Scott
Level 42 AI – Shash Jumbe
Movement Interactive – Eric Luster
Navigate Maternity – Ariana McGee
Oben Health – Peter Njongwe 
Tanzen Medical – Nilanjan Banerjee, Justin Brooks
Thermaband – Debbie Dickinson, Markea Dickinson-Frazier
Youme Healthcare – Hafeezah Muhammad

Medtech Color Executive Director Kwame Ulmer joins Host Tom Salemi and Mass Device Associate Editor Sean Whooley on this week’s Newmarkers Newsmakers. This week’s list includes Johnson & Johnson, Origami Surgical, Asensus Surgical, Medtronic, AliveCor, and Apple.

We also discuss the pitch contest, Medtech Color’s history, and an assessment of how effective the industry has been in increasing diversity of leadership in recent years.

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Hear from Medtech Color’s 10 Pitch Competition finalists; Kwame Ulmer joins us for the Newsmakers

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

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