Loma vista medical careers

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If you would like pricing, please provide us with some basic information about your company and your needs. A select group of Biodesign Fellow Alumni enjoyed a lively dinner with Mark and Alex as they detailed their successful and unique journey from start-up to exit. After graduation, Alex went into robotics, first in the film industry and then in medical at Intuitive Surgical. He spent several months evaluating multiple potential options before settling on colonoscopy.

Alex felt this space was a good fit to his skill set: it featured a vast, growing market that had antiquated technology, multiple unmet clinical needs resulting in significant waste, and it was a procedure of known clinical utility. He knew other companies that were funded in the space, and he thought that he could create something better.

After Interval Research closed in , he began working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, helping to build an internal consulting group specializing in rapid modern design thinking within the context of a scientific lab.

This was both a fascinating and frustrating experience and increased his desire to work in a small, nimble organization. He learned the basic ropes of start-ups but left the company for personal reasons in They grew slowly and hired carefully as they iterated designs.

They preferred people with high energy and hands-on design experience over those with high GPAs. Despite determined efforts, they were never able to get their colonoscopy prototypes to work on the bench-top. This led them to make their first of two pivots. At this time, kyphoplasty was hot, and they had heard stories of the Kyphon balloon having challenges in the clinical setting. It was very clear that this material would be superior in medical applications, but there were multiple things that stood in the way: contractual relations, exact material choices, and what would be years of manufacturing challenges.

About nine months into the relationship, problems became evident. Building a balloon was the essential work of Loma Vista Medical but merely a dalliance for the composite sail company. This led to predictable problems with hitting deadlines and specifications.

Plus, it became clear that building a sail and building a balloon were very different things. LVM decided that manufacturing was to be to a core competency and began developing the processes and trade secrets that would eventually become key to their acquisition. As they tried to improve their yields Alex and Mark saw head winds in the kyphoplasty space. Soon after the Medtronic acquisition of Kyphon, they saw the number of kyphoplasties falling.

Additionally, a study appeared in the NEJM which questioned the clinical efficacy of kyphoplasty. Though the study had clear deficiencies, the perception of kyphoplasty had changed. A trip to the North American Spinal Society meeting in November further confirmed the view that the kyphoplasty procedure was on a downward trajectory. They began to look to other areas. Luckily, one of their board members happened to take a consulting job for a company called CoreValve.

Nevertheless, he persuaded the team to create some prototypes to support their valve system. He believed that transcatheter aortic valves would be a big opportunity, and that they would require accessories, including dedicated balloons much better than the ones currently available. In one memorable day, they took their first transcatheter balloon, drove up to Sacramento, did a pig test, edited their video over lunch, and then drove that same afternoon up to present the prototype and video to Medtronic in Santa Rosa who had recently acquired CoreValve.