2023 AOSSM Annual Meeting Recordings with CME-Developing Your Research Career in Early Practice 2

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In this video, Dr. Heather Roberts, founder of a startup company, discusses the innovation cycle in the medical field, particularly in orthopedics. She explains how innovation starts with evaluating the current standard of care and then exploring new ways to improve it. Dr. Roberts mentions that industry involvement is crucial in the process but highlights the challenges of bridging the gap between academic research and commercialization. She introduces the concept of technological readiness levels used by NASA to systematically approach innovation. Dr. Roberts shares her experience with bridge-enhanced ACL repair and how they optimized the technique through various stages, including testing in a model environment and obtaining FDA approval for clinical trials. She concludes by emphasizing the importance of building a translational pipeline and collaborating with others to bring more innovations from the lab to clinical practice. The video does not mention any credits.

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Martha Murray, MD

Keywords

innovation cycle

orthopedics

technological readiness levels

bridge-enhanced ACL repair

translational pipeline