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Lauren Dubinsky, Senior Reporter | February 05, 2015
DOTmed News: Are there any projects you're particularly excited about right now?
WEC: In addition to working on everlinQ with TVA Medical, I am fortunate to be involved in a number of very innovative initiatives that have the potential to be very disruptive. One is a new type of medical implant developed in our lab in collaboration with Mardil Medical that is designed to treat leaking mitral valves in heart failure patients with a procedure performed through a limited access incision without the use of the heart lung machine.
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Another project focuses on developing a technology for excluding the left atrial appendage in patients with atrial fibrillation without opening the chest. In addition, my partner and mentor O.H. "Bud" Frazier and I are part of a team working to develop the first permanent mechanical replacement for the failing human heart.
The BiVACOR heart, as it is called, has a single moving part, a rapidly-spinning impeller, that is suspended in a magnetic field and the position of which is finely adjusted 20,000 times each second to accommodate changes in physiology. Each of these projects is the type of work I literally live for - blending my passions for innovation and improving health.
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