Perched atop the John P. McGovern Texas Medical Center Commons, Trevisio Restaurant is a common congregation point for great minds throughout the medical community. On Thursday,\u00a0Sept.\u00a05, it was the focal point for a meeting about an area of discovery that often goes overlooked\u2014pediatric innovation.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne thing you realize about medical devices, for children in particular, is that they typically follow innovations in other areas by about ten years\u2014the market\u2019s simply not big enough for industry development,\u201d said William F. McKeon, executive vice president and chief strategy and operating officer of the Texas Medical Center, in his opening remarks. \u201cIn many cases, people are taking devices designed for an adult and trying to retrofit them for children, which has a lot of disadvantages. I think all of us here tonight really share that passion for improving pediatric innovation. It\u2019s exciting to see the energy surrounding issues like this. \u201c<\/p>\n
\u201cYou must leverage this resource. Not only for you, but for this country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The evening\u2019s event, titled \u201cA Session on Pediatric Innovation,\u201d introduced pediatric surgeon and scientist Peter C. W. Kim, M.D., Ph.D., vice president of the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children\u2019s National Health System, to the Houston innovation community as he shared his path to success.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur institute was set outside of the clinical care model and outside of the model of a traditional clinical institute,\u201d he noted. \u201cThere\u2019s a level of independence in which I\u2019m able to run the institute, away from both the clinical side as well as the research side, which is an important design issue. There are a number of examples of the value of setting something up outside of a traditional paradigm. When things become successful, they really don\u2019t change, which can become an endless feedback loop. We pushed back against that.\u201d<\/p>\n
As vice president of the Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Kim implements their vision of innovation, multidisciplinary research and development in pediatric surgery.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I came here and looked at the Texas Medical Center, I realized what a huge resource this medical city is for innovation,\u201d said Kim. \u201cYou already have the ecosystem\u2014you just have to leverage it. The reason that Silicon Valley is so successful is because of the robust nature of their ecosystem\u2014you can\u2019t walk down the street without tripping over someone involved in innovation.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou must leverage this resource,\u201d he added. \u201cNot only for you, but for this country.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following the lecture, a panel discussion explored the future of pediatric innovation by pitting the pathway of pediatric medical devices to market against the pathway of those for adults.<\/p>\n
\u201cPediatric medical devices are a tough space,\u201d said panelist Robert Kroslowitz, president and chief executive officer of Berlin Heart, INC. \u201cI think that it\u2019s a very small sub-population that you end up treating\u2014that makes it even more difficult and challenging to study. We succeeded because we\u2019re a privately owned company and our owner is invested in pediatric cardiovascular disease. It\u2019s a challenge, but it\u2019s a worthy population and there are a lot of good things to be done if there\u2019s some way to have your technology transition into a larger population. We need to find broader applications for pediatric devices, whatever it may be, in the adult population.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kroslowitz was joined by fellow panelist William \u201cBilly\u201d E. Cohn, M.D., cardiac surgeon, director of the Center for Technology and Innovation at Texas Heart Institute,\u00a0and\u00a0director of the Department of Surgery Incubator at Baylor College of Medicine,\u00a0as well as\u00a0Chester Koh, M.D., pediatric urologist, director of the Pediatric Robotic Surgery Program at Texas Children\u2019s Hospital,\u00a0and\u00a0associate professor of pediatric urology at Baylor College of Medicine.\u00a0Koh\u00a0moderated the discussion.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile there\u2019s not a lot of appetite for a market, that shows you that there are other metrics for success\u2014money is not the most important thing and saving lives is a wonderful goal,\u201d said Cohn. \u201cAt the same time, we\u2019ve tried to leverage pediatric devices that might have a role in the adult population. If it\u2019ll work well in infants, it\u2019ll work well in adults.<\/p>\n
\u201cInnovation is a team sport,\u201d he added. \u201cThat\u2019s how ideas germinate: by bouncing them off everyone who will listen and getting people who are passionate to join you. If you\u2019re not passionate about it, either it\u2019s not a great idea or you\u2019re never going to be an innovator. You have to get pumped up, get other people pumped up, and when you sit down in front of an audience of investors, if you\u2019re not red-faced and breathless talking about it, they\u2019re never going to believe in you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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