Plan to attend the next From Concept to Commercialization in-person seminar on November 8th ar 2pm featuring Dr. Keith Obstein with “The Magnetic Flexible The Magnetic Flexible Endoscope: From Idea to Reality." Dr. Obstein will provide a seminar sharing his entrepreneurial journey with the medical device, magnetic flexible endoscope.
At this seminar, Dr. Obstein will be presented with the inaugural 2023 Brock Family Center Innovator of the Year award. In-person only. This event will not be recorded. Join us!
About the speaker:
Dr. Keith Obstein is a Professor of Medicine and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He is also the Program Director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program and the Director of the Science and Technology Of Robotics in Medicine (STORM) Lab USA at Vanderbilt.
Dr. Obstein is an active clinician with a focus on endoscopic services, hemorrhoids, and mucosal resection of large/complex polyps. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (FASGE), a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology (FACG), a Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGAF), and is board certified in gastroenterology. He conducts research in the areas of Robotics, New Technologies, Device Development, Endoscopic Training, and Healthcare Quality Improvement. His work has been funded by the Department of Defense supported Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT), the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE), the Vanderbilt University Discovery Grant Program, the Broad Medical Research Program, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), Cancer Research UK (CRUK), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).