We thank our host and conference chairs — Shaye Exner, Juliana Elstad, Lisa Earnhardt, Mick Farrell and Holly Sheffield — for their leadership and dedication in helping plan the 2025 conference. We are deeply grateful for the contributions made by every member of our conference planning committees.
Steering Committee
Lisa Earnhardt
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Executive Vice President and Group President, Medical Devices
Abbott
Host & Local Committee
Program Committee
Thank you to our Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is comprised of a distinguished group of CEOs, executives and thought leaders representing the medtech ecosystem. Their collective expertise will shape a conference that addresses the most pressing challenges impacting the global medtech industry.
Chuck Adams, Vice Chairman, Global Head of Healthcare, Consumer & Retail Banking, Citigroup
David Amor, Director, Global Regulatory Affairs, Apple
John Babitt, Global Medtech Leader, EY
Kate Benedict, President, Health Solutions, Flex Medical
Quentin Blackford, President & CEO, iRhythm Technologies
Brian Blaser, CEO, QuidelOrtho Corporation
Don Bobo, CVP, Edwards Lifesciences
James Brodie, GM, Canada, Johnson & Johnson MedTech Canada
Jeff Chu, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Features Capital
Nicole Dekort, President & CEO, MedTech Canada
Sumbul Desai, VP, Health, Apple
Joe DeVivo, CEO, Butterfly Network Inc.
Lisa Earnhardt, EVP & Group Chair, Medical Devices, Abbott
Juliana Elstad, CEO, Vibrato Medical
Richard Fabian. President & COO, FUJIFILM SonoSite Inc.
Mick Farrell, Chairman & CEO, ResMed Corp.
Colm Foley, Managing Director, Blackstone Life Sciences
Scott Garrett, Dx Porfolio, WaterStreet Healthcare Partners
Mike Guerra, CEO, California Life Sciences
Brian Johnson, Executive Director, MassMEDIC
David Kereiakes, Managing Partner, Windham Capital Partners
John Kilcoyne, CEO, JenaValve Technology
Justin Klein, Managing Partner, Vensana Capital
Paul LaViolette, CEO and Co-Chairman, Pulse Biosciences
Stephen MacMillan, Chairman, President & CEO, Hologic, Inc.
Tracy MacNeal, CEO, Materna Medical
Josh Makower, Director & Co-Founder, Stanford Biodesign
Sonal Matai, President, Karl Storz
Jennifer McCaney, Executive Director, UCLA Biodesign, UCLA Biodesign
Maureen L. Mulvihill, Ph.D., President & CEO, Actuated Medical, Inc.
Caroll Neubauer, Executive Advisor, Water Street Healthcare Partners
Bakul Patel, Sr. Dir. Global Health Strat & Reg, Google Health
Bakul Patel, Senior Director Global Health Strategy & Regulation, Google Health
Todd Pope, Vice Chair, Revival Healthcare Capital
Julien Sauvagnargues, President & CEO, Olympus Corp of Americas
Kent Savage, CEO, PhotoPharmics, Inc.
Kevin Sayer, CEO, DexCom, Inc.
Kathryn Godburn Schubert, President & CEO, Society for Women’s Health Research
Carsten Schroeder, President & CEO, Terumo Neuro
Norm Schwartz, CEO, Bio-Rad Labratories
Tim Scott, CEO, Bicom California
Holly Sheffield, President, CooperSurgical, Inc.
Carl St. Bernard, CEO, Jupiter Endovascular
Pam Traxel, Senior Vice President, American Cancer Society
Kwame Ulmer, Founder, Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health
Todd Usen, CEO, AdagioMedical Inc.
Venk Varadan, Co-Founder & CEO, Nanowear, Inc.
Brett Wall, EVP, Neuroscience Portfolio, Medtronic
Christina Wurster, CEO, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Cynthia Yee, Principal, Vensana Capital
Bernard Zovighian, CEO, Edwards Lifesciences
Thank you to our Program Committee
The Program Committee is comprised of industry professionals and AdvaMed content experts with the mission to assist in developing a top-quality and diverse educational program for The MedTech Conference.
Nadine Afari, Program Associate, The Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics (CTIP)
Nasreen Al-Quaid, Global Harmonization Regulatory Policy Advocacy Lead & Analyst, Becton Dickinson
Romiya Barry, Director, Clinical & Analytical Sciences, Werfen
Pankit Bhalodia, Partner – Life Sciences, West Monroe
Robin Blankenbaker, Life Science Portfolio Leader, Siemens Digital Industries Software
Margaret Boiano, Principal, Reimbursement Access Consulting, LLC
Adam Borden, Americas Reimbursement & Policy Strategist, W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
Michael Branagan–Harris, CEO HealthTech Strategist, HealthTech Strategies UK Ltd
Chandra Branham, Sr. Director, Payment & Delivery Policy, Health Policy, Johnson & Johnson
Eduardo Calazans, Health Care Compliance Officer, Johnson & Johnson
Lori Chmura, CEO, Nyra Medical
Jeff Chu, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Features Capital
Sean Coombs, MedTech Sector Technical Director, PM Group
Jaimi Gaffe, Vice President, Regulatory Law, MedTech, Johnson & Johnson
Eric Heinz, Managing Partner, Heinz Ventures, LLC
Randy Horton, Chief Solutions Officer, Orthogonal
Nate Hwang, Chief Compliance and Data Privacy Officer, Gore Medical
Stephen Kalinsky, CTO & Co-Founder, Augment Health, Inc.
Katherine Kim, Director, Global R&D Policy and Strategic Initiatives, Johnson & Johnson
Andrea Lee, Research Development, Innovation and Partnerships, Hamilton Health Sciences
James T. Lin, Principal Consultant, Isli Consulting
Monika McDole–Russell, Sr. Director, Global Regulatory Affairs, Medtronic
Carly McWilliams, Head of Regulatory Policy, North America, Roche
Nabiha Megateli–Das, Chief Investment Officer, Meritage Venture Group
Jared Meyers, CEO, Augment Health, Inc.
Rajesh Misra, Principal, KPMG
Gregory Montalbano, COO, MIDI Medical Development
Meher Muttanapalli, Senior Manager – SW Product Quality – RAQA, Intuitive Surgical
Ravi Nabar, Sr. VP, Compliance Group
Amy Palatiello, Sr Director, Health Policy and Reimbursement, Medtronic
Sandy Perreand, Director Regulatory Policy & Trade Compliance, bioMerieux
Shruti Rajagopalan, Regulatory Affairs Team Lead, Google
João Rocha–Gomes, Medical Product Lead, Ada Health
Cher Sanchez, Manager, Global Policy, Solventum
Prabagar Sankar, Senior Engineer, Intuitive Surgical
Tom Schumacher, VP, Lead Counsel AI, Medtronic
Maureen Shaffer, CEO, Mingletoe
Nidhi Shashikumar, Sr. Data Scientist, Outset Medical
Josh Silverstein, Director, Regulatory Science & Policy, Philips
Abhinavdutt Singh, Staff Software Quality Engineer, iRhythm Technologies
Alexandra Smythe, Director of Regulatory Affairs, IDE Group
Liz Spurgin, Head, Reimbursement & Policy, GE HealthCare
Sravani Sreeram Nagasai, Lead Technical Program Manager , Digital health and SaMD, Google LLC
Sarah Stec, Assistant General Counsel, Regulatory Law, MedTech, Johnson & Johnson
Ester Stein, Senior Director Corporate Reimbursement, Abbott
Ana Sofia Teixeira, Lead Researcher in Digital Health, University of Porto
Scott Thiel, Corporate Head of Regulatory Affairs, Hologic
Julie Tran, Technical Program Manager, Regulatory Affairs, Google LLC
Nataly Trejos, Associate Director Regulatory Policy LATAM, Johnson & Johnson
Cary Vance, President & CEO, PhotoniCare, Inc.
April Veoukas, Director Regulatory, Abbott
Bodo Wiegand, Sr. Advisor, Virdx
Leslie Wise, Head of Business Development and Market Access, Navigate Maternity
Greg Zapotoczny, Research Professor & Medical Device Clinical Trials Unit Director, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago – Consortium for Technology Innovation in Pediatrics
Jay Zhu, Partner, EY
Delphine Zurkiya, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
