UK: University of Kentucky | Commercialization & Economic Development

1st annual Clinician Innovation Day

More than 140 UK HealthCare clinicians, engineering faculty, Blue Grass Angels, and others attended the first annual Clinician Innovation Day and learned how clinicians can turn their ideas into medical devices and diagnostic products. Attendees also heard from expert entrepreneurs Dr. Thomas J. Fogarty, inventor of the world’s first balloon catheter that revolutionized vascular surgery, and UK President Lee T. Todd Jr., founder of two technology companies, one of which was sold to IBM.

A customized commercialization process
Using a customized process designed to fit the hectic schedule of health care providers, the clinicians will work with an experienced business team in a privately funded company called Therix Medical to develop their concepts, including prototype development, regulatory assessment, financial modeling, and intellectual property protection. Therix will launch the resulting product in the marketplace either through licensing to industry or creating a start-up company.

The Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship in the Office for Commercialization & Economic Development partnered with UK cardiologist Dr. John Gurley to develop the Clinician Innovation Initiative and Therix Medical.

Event Presentations

Dr. Thomas J. Fogarty - How We Made It Happen (pdf)

Elaine Duncan, Paladin Medical - Idea to Market: Medical Deive Regulations in 4 Minutes (pdf)

Elizabeth A. Brooks, Decision-Driver Analytics, Inc. - The Importance of Defining, Proving & Communicating Product Value (pdf)

Karan Sangha, W.L. Gore & Associates - Working With Industry In Commercializing Innovative Ideas (pdf)

Kim Sayre, UK Center for Manufacturing - Success Education Research (pdf)

Jim Francis, Stoll Keenon Ogden, PLLC - Protecting Clinician Innovations (pdf)

Jessica Williams, UK Office for Commercialization & Economic Development - Clinician Disclosure Proess (pdf)