Min-Vasive Medtech: Interviews and audience Q&As with minimally invasive engineers from Edwards Lifesciences, Jupiter Endo and Compremium

The Medical Design & Outsourcing Min-Vasive Medtech series of interviews with minimally invasive medical device engineering and development experts is now available as a free, downloadable special report featuring transcripts of each interview.

In conversations and audience Q&A sessions with engineers and leaders from Edwards Lifesciences, Jupiter Endovascular and Compremium, we covered minimally invasive innovations in structural heart, next-gen catheters and pediatrics, as well as the technologies making them possible, such as computer modeling, advanced materials (including nitinol), cutting-edge components and complex manufacturing processes.

We also discussed R&D and regulatory strategy, minimally invasive design philosophy, understanding user needs, opportunities for other device developers, and tough questions like when to build in-house expertise and when to engage external partners.

Each of our daily interviews over the three-day series concluded with live Q&A sessions with our webcast audience. If you’re watching on replay, you can still submit questions, or you can email them to me here.

If you missed our 2024 series with engineers from Abbott, Johnson & Johnson MedTech, Synchron and Endiatx, you can watch on-demand replays of those webinars anytime.

Learn more about our 2025 speakers and watch the replays now:

• Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025: How Edwards Lifesciences innovates in structural heart, featuring Edwards Lifesciences Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement Engineering VP Darshin Patel and Advanced Technology Lowell Edwards Senior Engineering Fellow Hengchu Cao
• Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025: Jupiter Endovascular’s big breakthrough in catheter tech, featuring Jupiter Endovascular VP of Product Development Garrett Gomes
• Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025: Minimally invasive pediatric device development opportunities and strategies, featuring Compremium Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer and Head of Pediatrics and Special Populations Kolaleh Eskandanian

These webinars are for medical device designers, engineers and other technical professionals at OEMs, CMO/CDMOs, suppliers and anyone interested in minimally invasive devices and systems. This series is also valuable to design/engineering students and professionals in other industries who might be considering careers in medtech.

Here’s some previously published MDO coverage of these minimally invasive medtech developers that might inspire some questions for you to ask of our engineering and device development experts:

• Q&A with Darshin Patel, who led the Edwards Lifesciences Sapien M3 TMVR system’s development
• Jupiter Endovascular may have solved a critical catheter challenge
• Children’s National and Compremium partner on pediatric medtech innovation, aiming first at ‘the holy grail of cardiac care’
• Six innovations that could advance pediatric cardiology
• FDA and Children’s National partner on pediatric device innovation
• What is minimally invasive medtech? Device experts weigh in 

And if you haven’t seen it already, check out our latest minimally invasive medtech-themed issue of MDO magazine.

This article was originally published on July 18, 2025, and updated on Dec. 9, 2025.