Medical Devices: Managing and Learning from Failure

Medical Devices: Managing and Learning from Failure

Date: 03/19/2014
Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: 111 Snell Library
Speaker: Fred Schoen, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Medical Devices: Managing and Learning from Failure

This talk will discuss why failures occur, how to analyze failures, and how to learn from failures.  Examples of using failure to drive innovation will be provided.  Students will have the opportunity to analyze a fictional case.

Frederick J. Schoen is Director of the BWH Biomedical Research Institute (BRI) Technology and Innovation Initiative and BWH liaison to (Site Miner for) the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT). He is also Professor of Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School and Executive Vice-Chairman in the Department of Pathology at BWH.

Schoen has leadership responsibilities in academic programs in the Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and is an active teacher/director of courses in pathology, cardiovascular pathology, biomaterials, tissue engineering, and medical device development at Harvard, MIT and the Harvard Catalyst.  Dr. Schoen’s research is in cardiovascular pathology, heart valve substitutes, biomaterials and tissue engineering. His activities entail considerable interaction with industry, technology transfer, venture capital and regulatory scientists and other non-academic personnel related to the furthering and translation of biomedical science.