1. What I have gained from ReDVA
ER: Vascular Flow Tech 1 1

2. About Me
Industrial collaborative research - current

3. Research Overview
Experience with commercial AV graft 3 3

4. Research Overview Pre-clinical animal trial
Pre-clinical animal trial – 3D imaging 4 4

5. Research Overview Pre-clinical animal trial
Pre-clinical animal trial – 3D imaging 5 5

6. Career Goals Primary Progression of skills in Research and Development
Emphases on Industrial position or industrial collaboration
Conceptualisation and prototyping of early product design
Secondary
Development of communication skills
Industrial process and statistical control
Improved familiarity with the medical enviroment

7. VFT
Spiral Laminar Flow™ is our technology platform that restores the blood flow pattern through prosthetic grafts to the body’s natural state. Our technology is based on a renewed understanding of natural blood flow patterns. 7 7

8. VFT Experience in: Graft flow analysis Pre-clinical Animal trials
Adapting product design within constraints
Expansion of product line:
Product retro-fitting with other technologies
Applying current design intent to different modes
Documentation pipeline
Experimental validation, R&R,Patent writing, PQ, OQ, Design specification, manufacturing procedure requirements 8 8

9. VFT
Stent profile adaption – early concept design 9 9

10. VFT
Adaptation of spiral design into Catheter 10 10

11. VFT
Adaptation of spiral design into Catheter 11 11

12. VFT
Review of Different Application Fields 12 12

13. University of Dundee Patient longitudinal scanning
Improve personal understanding of the fistula creation process.
Expand my current knowledge base of the fistula maturation process.
Strengthens my current skills with a larger cohort
Greater exposure in the vascular access area, strong publication capacity
Communication with groups on possible outcomes. 13 13

14. University of Dundee
Patient longitudinal scanning 14 14

15. Communication/Documentation
Good Clinical Practice.
Data management
HIPAA & DPA
Anonymisation of MRI and US scan data 15 15

16. Training / Workshops / Presentation
Poster Presentation at VAS 2015 and VASBI 2015.
Experience with MRI and Ultrasound experts
Discussions with leading expert in ultrasound materials and techniques
Exposure to the clinical environment and protocols
Public outreach
Exposure to the ongoing research within the Medical school

17. Current Position Back in the University of Limerick
Working with Cook Medical Ireland under a collaborative industrial research project
Also spent a subset of that time working within Cook Medical

18. Current Position Initially required development of project
Investigation of product testing inputs and limitations
Statistical medical image Analysis

19. Current Position Initially required development of project
-Product investigation in VFT
-Data management & Communication from imaging study
-Experience with interdisciplinary ReDVA team
-Familiarity with industrial terms and protocols while at VFT
Investigation of product testing inputs and limitations
Statistical medical image Analysis

20. Current Position Initially required development of project
Investigation of product testing inputs and limitations
-Various stent designs incorporating the VFT spiral into the COOK Stent
-VFT catheter retrofitting
-Ultrasound testing of echo-transparent synthetic material
Statistical medical image Analysis

21. Current Position Initially required development of project
Investigation of product testing inputs and limitations
Statistical medical image Analysis
-Wide range of experience with various imaging modalities and terminologies
-Geometric reconstruction pipelines and data management