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 interviews Alan Lotvin, MD, the CEO and co-founder of Sequel Med Tech, a small company promoting another BIG idea from prolific inventor Dean Kamen. Lotvin, who was formerly a senior executive at CVS/Caremark and PBMs, explains how Twiist, the automated insulin delivery system, could be a game-changer for people with diabetes.

Before the interview, we’ll hear from Ivan Tornos, the CEO and president of Zimmer Biomet. Tornos, who is the opening keynote interview guest at DeviceTalks Boston on April 30 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center talks with Salemi and Joe Mullings about the the changes at Zimmer Biomet and in orthopedics.

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Lotvin on why this Sequel AID is better than the original; ZB’s Tornos highlights new tech, ASCs

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