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It is my pleasure to introduce Josh McHour.

Josh is an incredibly impressive fellow, and I'm sure you will agree with me at the end of this hour.

He is the founder and chief executive officer of Explora Med and also a venture partner at New Enterprise Associates.

I got a chance to get to know Josh because he's the co-founder of the

bi-design program at the med school and teaches over there as well. But one of the

things that is most impressive about him is that he has four over four dozen patents in a huge

range of medical fields including cardiology, E&T, general surgery, drug delivery, orthopedics, and urology.

And he's also been involved with starting six different companies.

He's going to tell us today about the perfect storm in MedTech, and he's going to use his

experiences in his own companies as a backdrop.

Thanks so much, and welcome Josh.

Thank you, Tina.

Thanks. Thanks a lot. Thanks for coming out for this. Appreciate it. So I'm just going to walk through a little bit of background

and talk about a recent company experience and then really kind of hit onto the big topic, which is

some of the challenges that we are facing right now in MedTech specifically and kind of try

to get people active in this space to kind of get a little activism going and maybe help reverse

the course of some of the changes.

So this is a diagram of my background all in one big picture.

It starts off with a background in engineering and business and medicine.

And kind of got my first experiences in business at Pfizer,

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