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Healthy design and manufacture
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17/12/2007
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Medtec UK 2008 – the exhibition and conference for the medical device manufacturing industry – promises much for both managers and techies, as Tom Shelley reports
Next year’s Medtec UK exhibition and conference at Birmingham NEC (13-14 February) will once again focus on delivering devices to the growing -- but very demanding -- medical sector.
The conference is divided into two streams, one for managers covering ‘Regulation’ on day one and ‘Validation’ on day two, with parallel streams for those with more technical interests: ‘Product Development and Research and Development’ on day one and ‘New and Enabling Technologies in Healthcare’ on day two. This last session includes two very leading-edge technologies, descriptions of which have previously been published in Eureka.
Readers interested by ‘Condition monitoring in a heartbeat’, published in April 2007, can expect an update when Professor Anthony Turner of Cranfield University presents ‘Imprinted polymers – a new medical material’ at 14.00. Similarly, Alison Burdett of Toumaz Technologies delivers ‘Microelectronic medical devices meet consumer electronics: bringing the economies of scale to the semiconductor market’ at 14.45. The company was featured in the July 2007 feature ‘Sensing with nano engineered plastics’.
The remainder of the programme, which also looks technically interesting, comprises:
·‘Biological medical devices’ at 09.30 by Phil Brown of Wright Medical Technology;
·‘New polymeric biomaterials with built-in surface modifiers” at 10.15 by Robert Ward, CEO of The Polymer Technology Group;
·‘Enabling technologies for future orthopaedic surgical processes’ at 11.15 by Alan Ashby of DePuy, and ‘The use of RF technology in healthcare – past, present and future’ at 12.00 by Peter Morgan of PA Consulting; and,
·‘Molecular imaging: emerging concepts and their clinical applications’ at 15.45 by Professor S Homer-Vanniasinkam, from the General Infirmary at Leeds.
University participation
A key feature of the exhibition will be the joint involvement of 13 universities, all participants in the West Midlands Universities Healthcare and Medical Technologies Theme Group.
“We’re pleased to say that we are here at Medtec as a collective group of universities for the very first time,” says co-ordinator Howard Skerry, based in the Birmingham City University Business School. “We’re keen to talk to companies to explore how we can work together for our mutual benefit – and there’ll be a wide mix of university representatives to talk to at the exhibition.”
He adds that Medtec will be a great opportunity to see some of the innovative products that universities have helped to create.
“The collective resource of these diverse organisations means that almost every speciality within the healthcare and medical technology field is catered for. This is the strength of the group.”
Interested companies wishing to access the wide range of expert resource on offer should contact howard.skerry@contactke.co.uk
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Tom Shelley
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