Break Into MedTech: Careers, Conversations, and Connections
Join us for two impactful panels featuring MedTech professionals who will share how they got started in the field and what day-to-day life looks like. After the panels, continue the conversations through guided round table networking.
Agenda:
12:30 p.m. Registration Opens
1:00 p.m. Welcome
Martha Wang, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices
1:05 p.m. Kickoff
Gregory Peel, Author, The Pivot Point
1:15 p.m. Exploring MedTech Careers: Roles, Responsibilities, and Realities
Moderator: Chris Frew, CEO, Biobuzz
Ben Barnes, President Neuro Advisors
Chidiebube Chikezie, Executive Director, Emerging Technology Centers
Camille Smith, Senior Product/Program Manager
Kelliann Wachrathit-Kub, MSN, Cardiac Electrophysiology Device Nurse Coordinator, MedStar Washington Hospital Center
2:00 p.m. How We Got Here: The Journeys Behind the Jobs
Moderator: Christon Hill, Program Manager, Georgetown Tech Ventures
Kemisola Bolarinwa, Founder and CEO, Nextwear Technologies
Alicia Carbaugh, MPH, Chief Operating Officer, Medernity
Carrie Huffman, MA, MPH,DLP, RAC, Regulatory and Clinical Affairs Consultant
Michael Pitts, Clinical Consultant, ConSignMed, Inc
2:45 p.m.: Guided Round Table Networking
4:00 p.m. End
About Gregory Peel
Gregory L. Peel is a senior executive, speaker, and the founder of EclipXe Solutions — a minority, veteran-owned medical device consulting firm. With a distinguished career spanning over three decades, Greg has held executive leadership roles at two of the industry's most respected companies: Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic.
His journey into this field was not a straight line. After graduating from Bowie State University with a degree in Business Management, Greg served as a counterintelligence officer in the U.S. military under a four-year ROTC scholarship from Howard University, rising to the rank of Captain. A single phone call from a headhunter in 1993 pivoted his career into the world of medical devices — an industry he knew nothing about at the time but would come to master over the next three decades.
Greg also holds a dual master's degree from Johns Hopkins University — an MBA from the Carey Business School and a Master of Science in International Studies.
He is the author of the #1 best-selling book, The Pivot Point: Breaking into Medical Device Sales, which shares the untold stories of 16 African American trailblazers who shaped the medical device industry. The book has been endorsed by Roger E. Cameron, the creator of Cameron-Brooks and author of PCS To Corporate America, who called it a work he wished had existed 50 years ago.
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