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In this episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, Host Tom Salemi explores the breakthrough technologies—and the unique culture—driving one of MedTech's most ambitious missions with XCATH CEO Eduardo Fonseca. Fonseca shares the remarkable story behind XCATH's first remote robotic stroke procedure. Fonseca recounts the years of preparation, the high-stakes operation, and the emotional moment when a patient facing severe disability walked away with what he calls "a second birthday."

Along the way, Tom and Eduardo discuss AI's growing role in surgery, the global shortage of stroke specialists, the future of robotic intervention, and why expanding access—not simply advancing technology—is the company's ultimate goal.

To learn more about XCATH and talk with Fonseca, join us on July 29 for a live DeviceTalks discussion. Register here for the free webinar. Thank you to our sponsors Confluent, Jabil, Maxon, Solesis, Viant, and VitalPath.

MassDevice Editor Chris Newmarker returns to deliver this episode’s Newmarker’s Newsmakers – MDUFA, Corza Medical, Resmed, GTCR, Zimmer Biomet, Pacira Biosciences, and Johnson & Johnson MedTech.

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Chapters

(00:08:36) - FDA releases draft MDUFA VI agreement outlining proposed legislation and program changes
(00:12:50) - Resmed to sell MatrixCare software business to private equity firm for $490M/ GTCR to divest Biosurgery unit of Corza Medical
(00:15:58) - Medtronic’s chief sustainability officer is departing
(00:17:55) - Zimmer Biomet to pay up to $140M for Iovera nerve therapy tech from Pacira BioSciences
(00:19:56) - Johnson & Johnson wins FDA approval for ThermoCool SmartTouch dual-energy ablation system

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, host Tom Salemi is reassured by his conversation with Joe Catanese, CEO of Calyxo, a urology startup that has developed a system designed to simplify kidney stone removal.

Catanese previously helped build Neotract, a urology startup that was acquired by Teleflex for more than $1 billion. Now, he's leading another potential gamechanger and may have his sights set on an IPO.

Speaking of gamechangers, HistoSonics continues to shatter fundraising expectations. The company recently completed a financing round that valued it at $3.75 billion. In this week's FOMO interview, HistoSonics President and CEO Mike Blue speaks with MassDevice Editor Chris Newmarker during a keynote conversation at DeviceTalks Minnesota.

In this excerpt, Blue reflects on the company's first major fundraising round, which attracted high-profile investors including Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel, and shares his perspective on just how large the opportunity for histotripsy could become.

But first, Tom and Jim Hammerand, managing editor of Medical Design & Outsourcing, discuss AI—or LLMs, or whatever term you prefer. Is the hype beginning to fade? And what should the industry make of the recent announcement from Midjourney Medical?

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Chapters

(00:05:29) - AI Talk with Jim Hammerand, managing editor, Medical Design & Outsourcing
(00:24:46) - DeviceTalks Minnesota interview excerpt - Mike Blue, CEO and President, Histosonics
(00:41:44) - Keynote Interview with Joe Catanese, CEO and President, Calyxo

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Host Tom Salemi visits his MedTech happy place — renal denervation — with Recor Medical COO Helen Reeve Stoffer. Reeve Stoffer joined the company shortly before the bottom fell out of the renal denervation market in 2014. This interview picks up from that point and follows Recor's pursuit of FDA approval to where denervation technology may be applied next.

This week’s FOMO features a portion of a keynote interview with Manny Villafaña, MedTech legend and CEO of Medical 21. The conversation took place at DeviceTalks Minnesota and focuses on the dream that saved St. Jude Medical.

Skyler Rivera, associate editor of MassDevice, gives us a preview of her upcoming feature in Medical Design & Outsourcing magazine on the race to provide telesurgery capabilities to surgical robotic systems.

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Chapters

(00:02:42) - Associate Editor Skyler Rivera's path the MedTech (and MassDevice)
(00:06:00) - MDO covers the race for robotic telesurgery platforms in stroke
(00:11:12) - Rivera reviews the race leaders
(00:16:30) - FOMO Studio - Manny Villafana, MedTech Legend and CEO of Medical 21
(00:28:19) - Keynote Interview - Helen Reeve Stoffer, COO, Recor Medical

In this episode, Host Tom Salemi is joined by Darla Hutton, Intuitive’s global vice president of cardiac surgery, to discuss the surgical robotics giant’s return to cardiac surgery.

Intuitive famously aimed for the heart at its outset but pivoted when cardiac surgery proved too complicated. Today, heart patients and surgeons are pushing for minimally invasive procedures, and Hutton, a former cardiac surgery OR nurse, has been tapped to lead the company’s push into an increasingly competitive specialty.

But first, Harmonic Drive’s Bill Frey, regional sales engineer, joins us in the FOMO Studio. Go to HarmonicDrive.net for more information.

Filling in for MassDevice’s Chris Newmarker, Senior Editor Sean Whooley wraps up the five biggest stories to come out of the American Diabetes Association meeting — Abbott, Senseonics, Sequel, Dexcom, and Insulet.

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Chapters

(00:04:43) - Abbott studies reinforce DKA opportunity following dual sensor milestone
(00:07:13) - Senseonics study supports Eversense 365 CGM with automated insulin delivery tech
(00:09:20) - Sequel Med Tech data supports twiist automated insulin delivery in type 2 diabetes
(00:11:18) - Dexcom study highlights benefits of G7 CGM in non-insulin type 2 diabetes
(00:13:01) - Insulet data backs Omnipod 6, fully closed-loop AID systems
(00:16:29) - FOMO Studio - Bill Frey, regional sales engineer, Harmonic Drive
(00:27:14) - Keynote Interview - Darla Hutton, Global Vice President, Cardiac Surgery Intuitive

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Host Tom Salemi interviews Lisa Earnhardt, Executive Vice President and Group, President, Medical Devices, Abbott.

Earnhardt shared her views on Abbott’s advances in electrophysiology, pacemakers, and other technologies in this interview, which was conducted at DeviceTalks Minnesota.

In our sponsor interview ATL Medical CEO Jim Fitzgerald unpacks the meaning of its Manufacturing for Life philosophy with Managing Editor Kayleen Brown.

For more information go to www.ATLMedical.com. To find the blog mentioned in the interview, go here. 

But we’ll start off with MassDevice Editor Chris Newmarker with this week’s Newsmakers – Philips, Disney, Neurovalens, Edwards, Insulet and Medtronic.

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Chapters

(00:06:00) - Philips, Disney partner to improve MRI experience for children
(00:09:40) - Neurovalens earns FDA nod for neuromod for PTSD
(00:12:55) - Edwards gets FDA nod for Triformis Resilia surgical tricuspid valve replacement
(00:14:22) - Insulet initiates another Omnipod 5 recall affecting 7 million devices including some Dash, Eros systems
(00:17:01) - Medtronic sees best revenue growth in 10 years, but overall Q4 mixed
(00:21:21) - Interview with ATL Medical CEO Jim Fitzgerald
(00:29:37) - Keynote Interview - Lisa D. Earnhardt, Executive Vice President and Group, President, Medical Devices, Abbott