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The MDO Nitinol Knowledge webinar returns with a Medtronic distinguished engineer

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A photo of Medtronic Distinguished Engineer Ramesh Marrey.

Medtronic Distinguished Engineer Ramesh Marrey [Photo courtesy of Medtronic]

Medtronic Distinguished Engineer Ramesh Marrey is the featured guest of Medical Design & Outsourcing‘s 2026 Nitinol Knowledge webinar on May 14. (UPDATE: This webinar is now available for on-demand replay here.)

Marrey works in the Medtronic Structural Heart & Aortic business unit’s R&D group and previously worked in the company’s Neurovascular business. He also worked at Cordis when it was part of Johnson & Johnson MedTech and then Cardinal Health.

Marrey has more than two decades of experience in implant biomechanics, computational design optimization, non-clinical testing and related regulatory strategies. His focus areas include structural finite element analysis; stent design (balloon-expandable, self-expanding, drug-eluting); computational fatigue and related material characterization; accelerated durability testing; patient-specific simulations and in-silico studies; and synthesis of clinical, bench and computational outcomes for demonstration of implant efficacy and safety.

A photo of the Medtronic Evolut Pro+ heart

Medtronic uses nitinol’s superelastic properties for self-expanding structural heart devices such as the Evolut Pro+ prosthetic valve for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). [Image courtesy of Medtronic]

During our May 14 webinar, we’ll discuss nitinol’s properties and why it’s such a good fit for structural heart systems, as well as nitinol modeling, design, testing and regulatory considerations. We’re also planning to save time for questions from our virtual audience at the end of the webinar. 

If you’re new to nitinol, start here and then check out our nitinol resources page, which includes our latest coverage, special reports and links to previous webinars related to nitinol, including our 2025 Nitinol Knowledge webinar with former Edwards Lifesciences Engineering SVP Ming Wu.

You can learn more by downloading our free Nitinol Innovation Special Reports featuring nitinol expertise and tips from medical device OEMs and interviews with medtech experts developing nitinol-enabled pulsed-field ablation systems. And since so many startups are working with nitinol, you might also want to download our new MDO Medtech Startups Special Report.

This article was originally published on April 14, 2026, and updated with a link to the on-demand replay on May 14.

About The Author

Jim Hammerand

Jim Hammerand is the managing editor of Arrowfly's Medical Design & Outsourcing, where he leads coverage of medtech innovation, design, engineering and manufacturing. He also reports breaking news at Arrowfly's MassDevice and contributes to our DeviceTalks podcasts and live events. Hammerand has more than two decades of journalism experience spanning newspapers, magazines, websites, live events, radio and TV news. For nearly a decade, Hammerand reported and edited business news for American City Business Journals as a reporter and digital editor at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal and then as managing editor of the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle. He holds degrees in journalism and management from the University of Minnesota and has won journalism awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, American Society of Business Publication Editors, and Trade, Association, Business Publications International. Connect with him on LinkedIn or by email at [email protected].

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