Dr. Jacob Bashyam is biomedical engineer with over 30 years in the capital medical equipment and implantable medical device experience. He has a wide spectrum experience with medical devices, in hardware, software and packaging design & development, manufacturing operations, animal and acute clinical studies, and market research. He has worked for Siemens Ultrasound as software architect/manager, for St. Jude Medical as an engineering director, and for startup Intrapace as vice president of R&D. Currently Dr. Bashyam consults for implantable medical device companies in design and operations. He has a BSEE from the University of Madras, India, MS in biomedical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and an executive MBA from Cal State Hayward.
While understanding of human physiologies and breakthroughs in multi-disciplined technologies is progressing at a rapid rate, bringing these clinical understandings and technologies together in the form of medical devices for the patient and physician remains a challenge, but new implantable market opportunities open up. The current $33 billion US implantable medical device market is projected to reach US$48 billion by 2014, growing at the rate of 8.3% annual. The presentation details the challenges involved in the design, manufacturing, biocompatibility, security, regulatory and quality areas of implantable device; and also briefs on the various new opportunities.
