Medical Equipment Consultants: 5

Peter Crosby has over 45 years experience in the medical device industry. He has served as CEO of six medical device companies in four countries (public and private), and brought many products to the world market through clinical trials and regulatory approval.

Through Biomedical Business Resources LLC, he provides many services including:

• Advisory - helping clients with strategy, operations, execution, and business building\
• Mentoring, especially first time CEOs
• Expert Witness - assisting attorneys with multiple expert reports, depositions, and testimony at trial and arbitration. Cases include disputes about intellectual property , product liability, and commercial contracts
• Board Services - offering Independent Board Member services for companies, public or private, with experience in building companies, and helping management teams in times of high growth and rapid change

Mr. Crosby's product experience includes implantable devices (cochlear implants, cardiac pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, artificial heart, neurostimulation), in vitro diagnostics, imaging (ultrasound and X-ray), software, AEDs, and patient monitoring. His clinical domain experience includes ophthalmology, otolaryngology, cardiac surgery, cardiology, orthopedics, pain management, anesthesia and intensive care.

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Elite Medical Experts works with attorneys to provide 100% Board-Certified physicians and surgeons practicing at the professorial level at the nation's leading universities. From Stanford to Yale, and from every medical and surgical specialty, Elite secures full-time practicing high-level experts from the nation’s most respected medical institutions. Each specialist is truly unique – a Board Certified professor with a dedicated clinical practice, extensive publications, and top-tier credentials from a major U.S. medical center. 

Complex Consulting at the Intersection of Medicine & Business
Elite Medical Experts also consults on complex strategic and tactical issues for enterprises of any size, and has extensive experience securing top-tier Professors of Medicine and Surgery for a range of complex consulting engagements. Elite Medical Experts is mission-critical to:

Corporate Consulting Occupational Health Special Projects Product Development Legislative Issues FDA Navigation Television, Film, Print News, and Other Media

FTC Rules and Regulations Lobbying Intellectual Property Focus Groups and Due Diligence Keynote Addresses, Endorsements Executive Search for Strategic Advisors, Directors, and Board Members Device & Drug Insight for Hedge Funds and Private Equity

To learn how you can align with nationally recognized thought leaders from myriad areas of expertise, call Elite today and ask for our Director of Complex Consulting:

Dr. Burton Bentley II, M.D., FAAEM
CEO, Elite Medical Experts, LLC.

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mdi Consultants, Inc - Experts in FDA regulatory affairs, quality assurance and ISO 9000 certification. With 6 years in the FDA and 26 years consulting to the industry, mdi Consultants, Inc. has been an invited Speaker worldwide on FDA regulations and policies and has obtained FDA expert status as third party auditors.

OUR APPROACH

We utilize the following three part approach to providing high quality services to our clients:

Unsurpassed consultant experience – we identify and recruit only top quality consultants with deep industry knowledge to provide the most complete and insightful advice to our clients

Up-to-date systems and processes – we have highly defined systems (e.g. manuals, training programs, technical files) and processes (e.g. audit methodologies, 510(k) submission, validations) that are constantly refined and kept current across the ever changing regulatory environment

Involvement in regulation development – we stay ahead of policies by participating in the development of regulation (e.g. HACCP, Scientific Advisor to U.S. Congressmen)

OrthoBioMech LLC provides Medical Device Development and Injury Biomechanics Analysis services to the orthopedic and legal fields. The founder, Mari S. Truman, PE, has more than 37 years of experience in Orthopedic Product Design and Development. As Principal Engineer, she acts as an R&D design and development consultant to the orthopaedic industry and an injury biomechanics and medical device forensic expert.

While working for and with the major US Orthopaedic companies, she designed numerous instruments and implants for repair of skeletal injury. Ms. Truman is named on 12 Orthopaedic Patents and frequently gives talks on implant design and injury biomechanics on topics such as: knee and thumb-based joint surfaces and kinematics, joint design, rapid prototyping, medical device design control, and injury biomechanics.

Ms. Truman founded and ran ArthroMotion (1993-1997) and Seabrook International LLC's Midwest Design Center (1999-2002). Her project experience (non-inclusive):

• Total and Hemi Joint Resurfacing Systems: Hip, Knee, Wrist, Ankle, Hand/Toe, CMC, PIP, DIP, Shoulder
  
• Trauma Systems: Plates, specialty screws, intramedullary nails, wires, cables, external fixation systems, spinal fusion systems
  
• Soft Tissue Reattachment Systems

Speaking Venues: ASME Congress, North American Spine Society, Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, International Society of Biomechanics, National Manufacturing Week Conference, American Society for Surgery of the Hand, International Hand and Wrist Biomechanics Symposium, International Federation of the of the Societies for Surgery of the Hand, Vth International Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics, Indiana Medical Device Manufacturer’s Council, Ohio Bar Association and the Ohio Trial Lawyer’s Association.

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Award winning, Oxford Educated scientist whose areas of expertise include medical imaging, electronics, semiconductors, medical devices, sensors, MEMS, signal processing and image processing. Dr Daft has deposition and trial testimony experience. Extensive Intellectual Property experience including patent development, analysis, licensing, and litigation. Serial inventor who holds 23 U.S. Patents with several pending. Completed more than 98 hours of SEAK Expert Witness Seminars, including patent-specific training. Diverse industry experience including multi-nationals such as GE, Medtronic, Fujifilm, Samsung and Siemens as well as several start-ups. Well published. Winner of grants from National Institute of Health. Extensive international consulting experience. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) Senior Member since 2004. Three years’ experience teaching electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois. Holds BA and MA in Physics from Oxford University as well as Doctorate from Oxford in Materials Science.

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