In case you missed it, watch as Justin Westendorf, Product Development Manager, and Jeremy Odegard, Principal Industrial Designer, both for Phillips-Medisize, share their featured speaker presentation conducted during the 2023 American Medical Device Summit entitled “Lost in Translation: Keeping the Connection Between the Science, Design and Manufacturing of Meaningful Devices.”
What you will learn:
- Discover strategies to avoid common pitfalls in device development through commercial launch.
- Improve team performance by bridging educational background and terminology differences.
- Help team members along the product lifecycle to find and retain fulfillment by connecting to the “Why”.
Justin Westendorf, Product Development Manager, Phillips-Medisize, a Molex company
As a Product Development Manager, Justin Westendorf plays a leading role in Phillips-Medisize’s product design and development efforts to solve complex problems serving millions of people worldwide with medical devices and combination products.
With over twenty years of experience, Justin has a strong project management background and leads a multi-disciplinary design and engineering team that values the user experience and role that manufacturing development to bring products to market in a highly automated and regulated environment. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Winona State University.
Jeremy Odegard, Principal Industrial Designer, Phillips-Medisize (Global Innovation and Development)
Jeremy is a member of the Phillips-Medisize Human-Centered Design (HCD) team. He engages during the earliest stages of product development to ensure that the needs of end-users and key stakeholders are considered throughout the design process.
Jeremy earned a BFA-Industrial Design from the University of Wisconsin – Stout and has specialized in the design of drug delivery devices and surgical instruments through his 25-year career.
As an advocate for the intentional integration of Human-Centered Design principles throughout the product development cycle, Jeremy believes in the strength of cross-functional collaboration. He has learned that a sincere sense of empathy for the needs of others can build connection, provide clarity, and inspire creative problem-solving when teams face challenges.
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