SEMDA: a resource for your medical device spin-offs

SRTTD Meeting

July 30, 2010

Mission Statement

The Southeastern Medical Device Association (SEMDA) is a non-profit association designed to promote medical device companies in the Southeast, provide a means for those companies and inventors to network and build community, and provide them with resources to grow.

Membership

SEMDA membership is limited to those companies and individual working within the field of medical devices, including executives and employees of medical device companies, venture capital and angel investors who invest in medical device companies, physicians and/or engineers starting or running medical device companies, university researchers, and professors or other faculty focused on the medical device space. Service providers to the industry may participate as sponsors.

SEMDA Annual Conference

SEMDA 2011• Atlanta• late March

Program• industry keynotes• venture capital• educational sessions• networking

SEMDA Annual Conference

Other Resources

Industry Contracts• membership directory• local networking events

Support Contacts• regulatory consultants• reimbursement experts• design engineers• contract manufacturers

SpotLight Award

Individual SpotLight2009 – Jamie M. Grooms, CEO, Axogen, Alachua, FL2010 – Jay S. Yadav, CEO, CardioMEMS, Atlanta, GA

Organizational SpotLight2009 – Wright Medical Technologies, Arlington, TN2010 – Intersouth Partners, Durham, NC

Officers

Ace EdwardsCEO, Ende Profab

Linda BraddonCEO, Secure BioMed

PRESIDENT CONFERENCE CHAIR

Website

www.semda.net