9.30am
Arrival and networking
10.00am
Welcome and introduction
Professor Amar Rangan, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
10.10am
Show me the way
“I thought I could do it by myself; I thought my device was so awesome the NHS would be the path to my door, but after years of hard work, we had made little progress in the NHS. But now I’ve surrendered and allowed Medconnect North to show me the way, and when we combined their knowledge with our own graft, we got on the path to success.”
James Carroll, Founder and CEO at THOR Photomedicine Ltd
10.35am
Connected medical devices and the internet of caring things
Dr Tom Harvey, Chief Technologist, CPI
10.55am
Health Economics – its importance in clinical research
Andrew McCarthy, Assistant Professor of Health Economics, Northumbria University
11.15am
Break
11.35am
i4i and SBRI Healthcare funding calls
Professor Mike Lewis, Director of the NIHR i4i and SBRi Healthcare programmes
11.55am
Virtual trials for medical devices
Professor Yan Yiannakou, Consultant Neurogastroenterologist, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, and Clinical Director, NIHR National Patient Recruitment Centre: Newcastle
12.15pm
Lunch
1.15pm
Workshops – choose between
1 – AHSN: An introduction to the Innovation Pathway
Rachel Morris, Associate Director, Academic Health Science Network for the North East and North Cumbria
Jody Nichols, Associate Director, Academic Health Science Network for the North East and North Cumbria
and
2 – Working with the MedConnect North Project Team
Dr Shaun Wellburn, MedConnect North Methodologist
Prof Alan Batterham, MedConnect North Stats Advisor
Craig Mower, MedConnect North Project Manager
1.45pm
Break
2.00pm
HealthTech – Delivering outcomes for health
Luella Trickett, Director, Value & Access, ABHI
2.25pm
The role of Newcastle Hospitals’ Commercial Team within the innovation ecosystem
How we work in partnership with partners across the ecosystem in the innovation, health and wealth space North East Innovation Lab – a Covid success story
Andrea Burroughs, Associate Director Commercial Enterprise, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Melanie Shield, Commercial Business Manager, North East Innovation Lab
2.45pm
Company pitches
A series of short presentations on innovative medical devices from commercial companies
3.05pm
Medical device trends within Primary Care Networks
How the MedTech landscape has changed within PCN, challenges and opportunities, and what to think about when engaging with PCN on innovation
David Thorne, Business Development Director, Well Up North Primary Care Network
3.25pm
Closing remarks
Professor Sam Eldabe, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
3.30pm
Event close