MedDevice Strategies’ principals are veterans of the mechanical circulatory support field as founders, managers, developers and fielders of innovative, implantable life-support systems.
MedDevice Strategies Team
Jal Jassawalla Chairman, Managing Director
James Lee, Managing Director
Phil Miller, Managing Director
Frank Beering
Business management, strategic planning, fianacing, active implantables technology
development
Jal S. Jassawalla is a senior executive who has founded, developed and managed global,
high-technology, medical-device businesses. He is currently Chairman & Managing
Director of MedDevice Strategies, LLC. Previously he was President and Chief Executive
Officer and also Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of World
Heart Corporation (2000 -2011). He was a founder and Corporate Vice President of
Novacor Medical Corporation (1980 – 1988) which was acquired by Baxter Healthcare
Corporation in 1998. He served as Vice President, Baxter Healthcare Corporation,
Novacor Division, from 1998 through 1999. At Novacor and Baxter, Mr. Jassawalla
led a multidiscliplinary team responsible for the development and approval of the
Novacor Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS). Experience includes private and public
company management, strategic planning, product research and development, regulatory
affairs, clinical trials, therapy adoption, cost management, equity financing, mergers
and acquisitions and investor relations. Much of this experience has encompassed
active implantable (Class III) medical devices, including the commercialization
of the first clinically applied, implantable, electrical left ventricular assist
device (LVAS). Mr. Jassawalla received his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley,
with specialization In Finance. He has been awarded over thirty US and International
patents for medical devices and has more than a hundred publications in the field
of cardiac assist systems. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and
Biological Engineering.
James Lee, Managing Director
Electronic design, management of EE/SW development, reliability engineering, system
development and evaluation, design control, technical inputs to regulatory process,
project management
Phil Miller, Managing Director
Mechanical engineering, system development and evaluation, technical inputs to regulatory
process, project management
Frank Beering
clinical/technical support, clinical training; IFU's/manuals, mechanical engineering
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Lori Beering
Chemical engineering, polymer chemistry, surface preperartion, coatings, bonding
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Michael Burnard
QA management, quality engineering, US and international quality systems, quality
audits, CAPA
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Linda Strauss
Regulatory/clinical management, US and international regulatory - submissions, governmental
interactionsPMA's