Medical Devices Today

Covidien - Back on Top: An Interview with Richard Meelia

Article preview from In-Vivo - September, 2010

Is there a medical device company today doing better than Covidien? The company is making a huge splash building new businesses and shoring up existing ones. But Covidien, formerly Tyco, hasn't always had it so good. A corporate scandal in the early 2000s brought Tyco's corporate management down and scuttled the healthcare business' strategic plan. After years of sitting on the sidelines, Covidien is back, stronger than ever.

Raising Robotics: An Interview with Intuitive's Lonnie Smith

Article preview from IN VIVO - July, 2010

The tremendous success of Intuitive Surgical over the past two decades seems clearly to argue that robotics is more than a techy's pipedream. Intuitive has already revolutionized at least one procedure - laparoscopic prostatectomy - and it figures to make significant progress in a range of others, in men's health, women's health, and cardiovascular surgery, to name just a few relevant clinical spaces. Even more impressive has been its success as a publicly traded company; for much of the middle years of this decade, Intuitive's stock was the strongest performer among all medical device public offerings. And perhaps most interesting: until recently, Intuitive was virtually the only robotics company to achieve any kind of success at all. In Vivo interviews Lonnie Smith, the CEO of the company for much of the 1990s and 2000s, to whom much of the credit should go.

GE Healthcare: Exclusive Interview With New CEO John Dineen

Full interview reprinted from "The Gray Sheet" - July 28, 2008

While it seems like a big change, John Dineen suggests his recent move from chief exec of General Electric's locomotive and drilling equipment business to the top slot at the firm's healthcare unit is a natural transition. Find out what he has to say.

From Guidant to Abbott: An Interview with John Capek

In the battle between Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific for Guidant, some people argue the real winner was Abbott Laboratories. John Capek looks back on his days at Guidant and ahead to his new role running Abbott's medical device business.