MedTech Snapshot Podcast

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Welcome back to another MedTech Snapshot. The one question, one answer, highly digest medical device podcast. With me today is Ray Biscuso.

He is the executive vice president of events for AVIMED. We're going to be getting into a variety of topics today covering why would you want to get involved in some of these events? Perhaps, of course, we'll be talking about AVIMED, but why also just being involved in the industry at large as well? There's also a rather large conference coming up later this year, so we'll dive into some of those details. So stay tuned.

All right, Ray, well, welcome in. So I'm really looking forward to diving into just kind of where AVIMED is today. You know, and you all have been through a variety of changes.

I mean, 50 years is quite a long time for a trade association to be around. So can you maybe just walk us through, you know, the pathway to get to where you are today? And why people should consider getting involved with your organization? So yes, we're celebrating 50 years. We were founded back in 1974.

And we were created because industry was all of a sudden regulated by the FDA. And we were started by companies that actually had products on the market. And you had to have a product on the market in those early days.

And it was really just the big guys that joined. And it was a closed network. But we are the world's largest trade organization.

We have a global footprint. Our members include, I want to say all 10 of the 10 largest medical device companies are members of ours. I think 35 of the 40 largest.