Diversity is the bedrock of all successful enterprises. The more diverse your workforce the more honorable people a company will amass for their leadership and employee pool. An honorable person is se...

I totally understand how jaded you feel about the state of medicine and the treatment vs cure conversation. I get it. Just thinking about diseases like pancreatic cancer and how much of a death sente...

I can think of a few drugs that are banned in the US including angiotensin receptor blocker / heartburn medication Ranitidine (Zantac) was recalled in 2020 due to the presence of low levels of a conta...

Animal research is unique in a sense that you can’t ask the animal if he or she would like to participate in an experiment because we are not at the level of communication where an animal can consent,...

Posted by: @hm243 In industry, research is done to make discoveries for products that can help people right away, while in academia, research create results for the long run. I feel that both types o...

I’ve had a fortununate opportunity to work with both academia and industry in terms of research and I noticed many parallels but there are some subtle differences that I will outline. While working in...

I cannot imagine how frustrating it probably has been on your job hunt in terms of searching for the right project management position and despite the expensive amount of education that you have in or...

Extraordinary measures have been put into place to develop the core of coronavirus vaccines that we’ve seen on the market that have received emergency use authorization by the FDA. But these processes...

Advanced degrees come with the caveat but at the same time that specialized knowledge can be used and applicable to so many different disciplines within the medical device industry. That being said, y...

I cannot stress enough how important communication is success of projects and how fundamentally important it is to have open lines of communication between project teams and not develop silos in the p...

@delany Great job with this post. I too did not participate in the simulation but I can tell you from being involved in several different projects that having multiple vendors is never a bad idea. Par...

Human resources is a valuable resource in the development of medical devices and projects and supports the development and sustainment of teams that can provide solutions to see projects through to th...

In September 2017, I traveled to the state of Florida in support of hurricane Irma disaster relief efforts with the American Red Cross out of the greater New York region. I volunteered in the mass car...

I don’t consider having to go back to amend the plan a backward step. In fact I look at it as iron sharpening iron. I remember working with the American red cross on a project that involves disaster s...

The one thing that I’ve come to realize is that project management is such a valuable skill set to have in the workforce. I was recently on a call for a nonprofit organization that I volunteer with an...