Speaker: Neema Hekmat
Ph.D. Candidate
Stanford Biodesign Group, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Local Organizer: Davoud Saljoughi
Title: A New Framework for Medical Technology Development in Iran
Time: Monday, Aug 29, 2005
Location: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran
The lack of an established Iranian medical device industry to directly and effectively address domestic clinical limitations and technological shortcomings motivates the need for an improved model for medical technology development in Iran. During a summer fellowship at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, a new framework for medical technology development has been developed, which provides a strategic development path for new technologies that, while addressing the most significant shortcomings of the current model for medical technology development, provides economic incentive and benefit for major stakeholders of medical technologies in Iran to take part in such.
During the seminar, to understand the sources and mechanisms of domestic clinical limitations, an overview of the current model for medical technology development, including the types of medical technologies that are produced domestically, the nature of collaboration between hospitals and biomedical companies, regulations and controls on medical devices and the relevant modes of finance will be presented. The discussion will cover the methods of determination and findings of the types of technologies that can be developed to address the largest clinical shortcomings, while providing the optimal benefit to its major stakeholders. Finally, the seminar will reveal a novel protocol for the development and commercialization of new technologies, which attempts to resolve the limitations of the current model in Iran.
