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**Host: SMU MBA Healthcare Club
**Light Buffet
**Walk-ins welcome!
**Free Parking: Moody Garage on SMU Boulevard at Airline Extension (MAP); for
questions regarding directions or parking call 214.768.3333
Why do some North Texas medical product companies succeeded when
others have failed? Getting
back-to-basics provides the backdrop for this forum, which features two
companies successfully competing at the leading edge of new technology. Come hear how each of these
national award-winning companies discovered ways to adapt their
capabilities to market needs. Stay afterward to tour the research and
executive classroom facilities of our host, SMU Cox School of Business.
5:00 – 6:30 PM Networking and Light Buffet
6:30 – 8:00 PM Program Presentation
8:00 – 8:30 PM Tour Cox School of Business
Please
Register by 5pm Tuesday, November 19—your credit card pre-payment will
allow us to prepare a name badge for you in advance and will minimize the
amount of time you stand in line at the door.
About Dr. Luthy (www.luthygroup.com):
Dr. Luthy established MPI in 1996 after a 10-year career
in successive levels of R&D management at Alcon Laboratories, the world
leader in ocular therapies. She
spent the previous two years as Group Leader of Immunoconjugate Chemistry for
BioDiagnostics, Inc, a venture capital-funded start-up company. She currently lectures in the Science
and Technology Commercialization Masters Program at the IC2
Institute at UT Austin. In 2001 and
2002 she served as a judge for the Technology Commercialization Competition
held jointly by IC2 Institute and Austin Technology
Incubator. Luthy holds BA and PhD
degrees in chemistry from Rice University and Penn. State,
respectively. She completed the
Executive MBA Program at SMU’s Cox School of Business May 1998 and founded
DFBT in October of that year.
Medical Product Innovation is a networked scientific and
management consulting company that creates strategies for developing
medical inventions into successful commercial products.
About Ms. Ryan (www.pharmafab.com):
Ms. Ryan, her brother and their father founded PharmaFab
in November 1994. In 2002
PharmaFab moved to number 88 from number 110 in Inc
Magazine’s 500 fastest-growing privately held companies in America. Ryan is the winner of the 2002 Women of
Excellence Award presented by Women’s Enterprise and the YWCA of
Metropolitan Dallas in May. She was a Regional Finalist in 2001 and 2002
for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Ryan was with Arthur Andersen from 1976
until 1993 and was promoted to Worldwide Partner in 1987. She holds bachelor's degrees in
mathematics and German from DePauw University and an MBA in accounting and
finance from University of Chicago.
She is also a CPA.
Two-time Dallas 100 Award winner, PharmaFab is a leading
pharmaceutical manufacturer of extended and immediate release solid dosage
products and liquid formulations.
About Mr. Chavez
(www.ans-medical.com):
Mr. Chavez joined ANS as
President, CEO and Director in April 1998.
From 1981 to 1997 he was with Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc., a
major division of Johnson & Johnson.
While with J&J, he progressed through several positions in
finance, strategic planning, domestic and international marketing, new
business development and general management. Chavez received his Bachelor of Arts degree in
accounting from New Mexico State University, his MBA from the Harvard
Graduate School of Business in 1979, and was awarded a CPA Certificate in
Texas in 1983.
Advanced Neuromodulation Systems (NASDAQ: ANSI) designs, develops,
manufactures and markets implantable neurostimulators and drug pumps to
manage chronic intractable pain and other disorders of the nervous
system. In October, Forbes Magazine
recognized ANS as 79th of the top 200 Best Small
public companies in the United States.
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