Interview with: Edward G. Chekan, Medical Director, Worldwide Medical Education, Johnson & Johnson Global Surgery Group, a speaker at the marcus evans Medical Device Manufacturing Summit Fall 2013 and the Medical Device R&D Summit Fall 2013, on how device manufacturers and those delivering patient care must collaborate

1. Bridging the Knowledge Gap between
Medical Device Manufacturers and
Healthcare Practitioners
and this gap has not been formally
addressed by the medical educational
system. Medical device manufacturers
can help to fill this void by leveraging
their understanding of the design and
manufacturing of a specific device.
What will fill this gap? Training and
educational programs?
Interview with: Edward G. Chekan,
Medical Director, Worldwide Medical
Education, Johnson & Johnson
Global Surgery Group
There is an educational gap in surgeons’
knowledge of how medical devices
interact with tissues, says Edward G.
Chekan, Medical Director, Medical
Education, Ethicon, Inc. a Johnson &
Johnson Company. “This gap must be
formally addressed, through
collaboration between medical device
manufacturers and those delivering
healthcare. Collaboration between
physicians and industry along the length
of the product development pathway
from clinical problem identification
through training on the safe and
effective use of the device helps lead to
improvement in patient outcomes,” he
explains.
Edward G. Chekan is a speaker at the
marcus evans Medical Device
Manufacturing Summit Fall 2013
and the Medical Device R&D Summit
Fall 2013, in Palm Beach, Florida,
November 18-19.
What knowledge gap exists in
surgical training today? How did it
come about?
There is an educational gap in the
knowledge base of surgeons regarding
their understanding of how modern
medical devices interact with tissues
Educational programs that are created
and delivered by collaboration between
m e d ic a l d e v i c e c o m p an i e s a nd
physicians or academic organizations
will most effectively fill this void. The
most current and relevant information
about the design and use of a new
medical device comes from the
manufacturer. Manufacturers should
consider the strategy for “educational
program design” around a new device
currently with a “product development
design”.
of how devices
What will this lead to? What
commercial benefits would this
collaboration result in?
and tissues
More collaboration leads to better
patient outcomes. Better patient
outcomes can be realized if end users
merely learn how to most safely and
effectively use the devices that they
already have. The more patients that
are benefited by the device, the better
off the patient, the surgeon and
manufacturer. More collaboration also
leads to the development of new
products that will fix the problem that
needs to be fixed.
Any final thoughts?
When a design engineer is asked to
design a new product, they should ask
themselves these questions before
diving into design solutions: What
clinical problem will this new device
solve? Do patients need this problem to
be solved? How are we going to educate
the end user on the safe and effective
use of this product?
The
fundamental
understanding
interact will
lead to better
patient
outcomes

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