Converge Medical Technologies was awarded Outstanding Presentation and Runner-Up at the Michigan Business Challenge, a campus-wide business competition hosted by the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
Converge Medical Technologies was one of four finalist companies at the Michigan Business Challenge after the initial 45 entrants were narrowed over four rounds.
Converge submitted a full business plan and investor presentation and was awarded Outstanding Presentation ($2,000) and Runner-Up ($10,000) for the Pryor-Hale Award for Best Business. The team was provided extensive guidance and feedback from Zell Lurie faculty and MBC judges to help develop and refine the business plan.
Converge is a spin-out of the Medical Innovation Center at the University of Michigan. The Medical Innovation Center fellows developed the company with Dr. George Mashour, an anesthesiologist and neuroscientist at the University of Michigan. The fellows are a team of postgraduates in medicine, engineering, business and health administration. They undertook six months of clinical immersion and opportunity identification in the sleep medicine domain, working closely with Dr. Ronald Chervin and the University of Michigan Sleep Disorders Center. After identifying more than 80 unmet needs, Converge Medical Technologies emerged from the process as the strongest opportunity.
About Converge Medical Technologies
Converge Medical Technologies is a medical device company that develops patient brain function monitoring solutions through principles of neuroscience. The companies? lead product, the Connect Monitor, employs a novel method to provide physicians with improved evaluation of patient awareness for anesthesia in surgery and sedation in critical care. MIC Fellows 2012 include:
Mike Johnson, M.D., MBA
Jay Johnson, MSE
Anna Ng, MHA
Anthony Tsai, M.D.
For information about the MIC, contact Jennifer Stovall, Edu director at jstovall@umich.edu.
Web Address: http://http://www.med.umich.edu/ummic/fellowship/index.shtml
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