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Mountain View • San Diego • OrangeCounty

Accelerate Design-to-Market of Medical Devices

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with Realistic Simulation

Do you face delays in the product design cycle while waiting for physical test results?

Would you like to perform what-if scenarios on virtual prototypes?

Are you challenged with balancing product quality and time to market?

Innovation in the medical industry is being constantly driven by the need to provide improved healthcare options to patients—both in emerging markets and in the aging, yet physically active populations of developed countries. However, the complexities of patient conditions pose considerable challenges to the design and performance evaluation of medical devices. In order to succeed in this increasingly competitive and highly regulated market, medical device companies are focusing on optimizing their design processes and managing intellectual assets effectively across the supply chain.

Attend this FREE seminar to learn how SIMULIA can help you to accelerate your product development cycle by deploying realistic simulation methods, quickly exploring thousands of design options, optimizing your design, and efficiently managing your simulation life cycle. Learn how our software products are being used in the design processes across the medical device sector including stents, pacemakers, orthopedics, and drug-delivery systems. Don't miss this opportunity to gain insights from invited speakers and network with your industry peers.

Date:	Location:
December 9	Mountain View, California
December 10	San Diego, California
December 11	Orange County, California

Seminar Agenda:

Featured Guest Speaker:

Maria-Grazia Ascenzi, Ph.D., Associate Researcher, UCLA School of Medicine

Maria-Grazia Ascenzi is an Associate Researcher, UCLA School of Medicine, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Biomechanics Research Division; a Research Scientist in Medicine, Department of Veterans Administration, Los Angeles; the Chief Scientist of Micro-Generated Algorithms, LLC; and a Preceptor for Proctor & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Inc. She has a PhD mathematics and applies theoretical mathematics to biological contexts to explain the biomechanical behavior observed in her micro-mechanics laboratory. She observes the microstructure of bone (human, rat, mouse) by regular light microscopy, polarized light microscopy and scanning confocal microscopy. She conducts: isolation of human secondary osteons and their lamellar components through unique techniques; morphometry of compact and cancellous bone microstructures as well as micro-components of the growth plate; and micro-mechanical testing of bone micro-specimens classified in terms of collagen/apatite orientation and degree of calcification. She conducts mathematical analysis of large data sets obtained through either morphometry or micro-mechanical testing. She uses supercomputers to build models of bone microstructural components that contain ultrastructural specifications to simulate the mechanical testing conducted in the laboratory and shed light on fracture initiation and propagation.

Darryl D'Lima, M.D., Ph.D., Scripps Clinic

Darryl D'Lima, M.D., Ph.D., trained as an orthopaedic surgeon and completed a research fellowship in Adult Reconstruction Surgery under Clifford W. Colwell Jr, M.D. at Scripps Clinic. He received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering at UC San Diego, CA. He is currently Director, Orthopaedic Research Laboratories at the Shiley Center for Orthopaedic Research and Education (SCORE) at Scripps Clinic and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Arthritis Research at Scripps Research Institute. Dr. D'Lima's major research interests include biomechanics of the hip and knee joints, and cartilage injury and repair. In 2005 he received the AAOS Kappa Delta award for his work on cell death following cartilage injury. He has also received two Knee Society awards and the HAP Paul award from ISTA for the development of a "smart" knee prosthesis.

Garrett Gleeson, Design Engineer, Sonoma Orthopedic Products, Inc.

Garrett recently graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in June '08 with a degree in mechanical engineering. Since June, he has worked full-time as a Design Engineer at Sonoma Orthopedic Products, Inc. SOP is a small start-up company based out of Santa Rosa, CA. They deal in minimally invasive repairing of bones and have just received their second FDA approval this year—one for the distal radius and one for the mid-shaft clavicle. He is also continuing his thesis research at Cal Poly which uses Abaqus software to determine the local bone remodeling seen in the human femur during exercise.

Xiao-Yan Gong, Ph.D., President, Medical Implant Mechanics LLC

Educated in China with expertise in computational fluid mechanics from Beijing University, Xiao-Yan Gong came to US in 1991 and received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Properties of Materials at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1996. In 1998, Dr. Gong joined Carbomedics Inc., a prosthesis heart valve manufacturer in Austin, Texas as Senior Design Analyst. Later, he joined Nitinol Devices and Components, where he focused on nonlinear Finite Element Analysis on Nitinol, helped establishing the peripheral stent durability program and conducted Nitinol fatigue research. In 2006, Dr. Gong founded his consulting firm Medical Implant Mechanics LLC to address the increasing demand for critical mechanical issues in medical implant industry including stress analysis via FEA, material fatigue testing and device durability assessment. Dr. Gong is the leader on “Fatigue to Fracture and Beyond” working group under ASTM F04.30.06 Task Group on Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices, Cardiovascular Standards Subcommittee, leading medical implant industry for a more reliable device durability assessment.

Featured SIMULIA Speakers:

Subham Sett, Life Sciences Industry Lead, SIMULIA Technical Marketing

Subham is focused on developing simulation road maps for the biomedical industry, as well as, SIMULIA’s multiphysics and fluid-structure interaction solutions. He began his career at SIMULIA as an engineering specialist. Prior to joining SIMULIA in 2003, he was involved in the design of MEMS switches at Coventor Inc. and holds several patents in the area. Subham holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a BTECH from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Who Should Attend:

Medical device designers, inventors, product development managers, and academics who wish to incorporate state-of-the-art simulation methods into their product design to improve design decisions and rely less on prototyping and physical tests.