Success in Academic Surgery: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Developing a Surgical Innovation: Creating a Meaningful Value Proposition and a Compelling Pitch for Impact

   • David Olson, Mark S. Cohen

   Pages 1-12

3. Understanding the Impact of Your Innovation: Customer Discovery

   • Kyle Miller, Jay Pandit, Sean Connell

   Pages 13-17

4. The Center for Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology: A Model for Effective Creativity in Academic Neurosurgery

   • Eric C. Leuthardt

   Pages 19-30

5. Success in Academic Surgery: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Managing FDA Regulatory Requirements into a Positive Bridge for Commercial Success

   • Rita King, Russ King

   Pages 31-50

6. Getting Funding for a Surgical Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges

   • Reda Jaber

   Pages 51-60

7. Relationships Between Industry and Academic Surgery Departments: Where Is the Pendulum Now?

   • Bruce Gingles, Bruce L. Gewertz

   Pages 61-69

8. The Biodesign Model: Training Physician Innovators and Entrepreneurs

   • Dimitri A. Augustin, Lyn Denend, James Wall, Thomas Krummel, Dan E. Azagury

   Pages 71-88

9. The Shared Investment Model: Partnering a Venture Capital Fund with a Health System

   • Monica Jain, Bruce L. Gewertz

   Pages 89-96

10. Creating an Innovation Environment for Developing and Testing Surgical Devices within an Academic Medical Center

    • Paul A. Iaizzo, William K. Durfee

    Pages 97-124

11. Leveraging Multiple Schools into a Multidisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at an Academic Medical Center: The NUvention Model

    • Vineet Sharma, James Sulzer, Michael Marasco, Edward Voboril, Peter McNerney, Swaminadhan Gnanashanmugam

    Pages 125-149

12. Challenges to Academic-Industry Partnerships

    • Randy J. Seeley, Gregory N. Witbeck, Michael W. Mulholland

    Pages 151-158

13. Funding Engineering/Surgical Partnerships to Accelerate Commercialization of Academic Medical and Surgical Innovations: The Coulter Model for Translational Partnership between Medicine, Engineering, and Industry

    • Thomas Marten

    Pages 159-184

14. Creating a Multidisciplinary Surgical Innovations Group at an Academic Medical Center to Stimulate Surgery Faculty Technology Development

    • Veeshal H. Patel, Michael R. Harrison, Elizabeth A. Gress, Shuvo Roy, Prashant Chopra, Stacy S. Kim et al.

    Pages 185-194

15. Engaging SBIR Resources for Development of Surgical Innovations in Oncology

    • Deepa Narayanan, Christie A. Canaria, Monique Pond, Michael Weingarten

    Pages 195-204

16. Creating ROI: Return on Innovation-the Partners Model

    • Ronald G. Tompkins, Andrew K. Alexander, Carl M. Berke

    Pages 205-216

17. Training the Next Generation of Surgical Innovators and Entrepreneurs Through a Novel Innovation Pathway and Curriculum

    • Chandu Vemuri, Mark S. Cohen

    Pages 217-234

18. Back Matter

    Pages 235-242

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This book provides a guide to innovation and entrepreneurship within academic surgery and details how these approaches can develop new technologies and programs that advance healthcare. The pathways, barriers, and opportunities for commercialization and entrepreneurship are identified and discussed in relation to licenses, start-ups, and obtaining funding.

The book aims to help create a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship across academic medical centres around the world, with the belief that this can improve patient care.

This book is relevant to surgeons of all disciplines, as well as medical students and researchers.

• Surgical Innovation
• Customer Discovery
• Intellectual Property
• Regulatory Process
• Biodesign Model
• Industry-Academic Partnerships
• Shared Investment Model
• Funding Engineering
• Industry-Academic Engagement
• Academic Medical Center

“Book has a broad target audience, ranging from residents to fellows to faculty surgeons. The book meets the needs of the intended audience nicely by creating a framework for innovative work to progress. … This a high-quality book that draws from many different areas to provide a centralized resource for understanding and improving surgical innovation. … It compares well to its counterpart books that examine different aspects of a successful academic surgical career for those interested in innovation and entrepreneurship.” (Kelsey Elyce Koch, Doody's Book Reviews, December 7, 2019)

• Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

  Mark S. Cohen

• McGovern School, The University of Texas Health Science Centre, Houston, USA

  Lillian Kao

Mark S. Cohen, MD, FACS is Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology at the University of Michigan. Serving as Associate Chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the Department of Surgery, as Director for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Path of Excellence at the University of Michigan Medical School, and as Innovation Chief for the University of Michigan Rogel Comprehensive Cancer Center, he has helped develop new innovation curricula across all vertical levels of learners from senior faculty all the way to undergraduate and graduate students and medical students leading to several new start-ups, licenses, and patents as well as a $3M Surgical Innovation Prize Fund which he directs at the University. He is a serial entrepreneur cofounding startups in therapeutics, devices and digital health. He completed surgical residency at Washington University and a NIH T32-sponsored fellowship in Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery at Washington University. As a practicing Surgical Oncologist and Endocrine Surgeon, he clinical interests are focused in the care of patients with advanced melanomas and endocrine tumors. His translational research program has been funded through 3 NIH R01 research grants along with support from the Komen Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and the Department of Surgery. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, 10 book chapters, and serves as an Associate Editor for the journal SURGERY for its INNOVATION series. He has also served multiple leadership roles in the Association for Academic Surgery, the Society of University Surgeons, and the American Association for Endocrine Surgeons, and has served as a grant review panelist for the National Science Foundation and NIH’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) phase I and phase II award programs..

Lillian S. Kao, MD, MS, FACS is Professor of Surgery, Division Chief of Acute Care Surgery, Director of the Red Duke Trauma Institute, and Vice-Chairfor Research and Faculty Development at the McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Her research interests include the evaluation of novel therapies and interventions and dissemination and implementation of research into practice. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts and 13 book chapters, and she is one of the two editors for the Springer series on “Success in Academic Surgery.” She is a Past President of the Association for Academic Surgery and is active in multiple surgical societies. She is the social media editor for the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

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