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Bio/Medical Technology Club of Houston Meeting Announcement

Meeting Topic:
“Millar’s Solution:  Mikro-Tip™ Technology in Cardiology and Urology”

Speaker:
Robert L. Pauly
Vice President of Engineering
Millar Instruments Inc.

Mr. Pauly is a Vice President of Engineering for Millar Instruments, Inc. a leading medical device company in the Houston area. Prior to working at Millar he was the senior design engineer with Micromed Technology, a medical device start-up company. While at Micromed, Mr. Pauly worked on the design and power systems for a small Left Ventricular Assist Device. This device is in clinical trials at present with good results.

Mr. Pauly has also worked with Intermedics, a leading medical device manufacturer in Angleton producing implantable pace makers, ICDs and programming devices. In this career position, he was writing software and performing hardware design for these complex systems. Mr. Pauly received three patent approvals with Intermedics which are now part of Guidant’s IP portfolio.

Mr. Pauly’s original home base was the Northeast area where he worked for ILC, a NASA subcontractor. There he developed space suit design enhancements for astronaut EVA activities in the building of the Space Station and in Hubble repair missions. These designs are still being used by NASA today. He also was involved in defense design contracts under security clearance and developed active camouflage for the military.  Mr. Pauly started his medical engineering career working for Terumo Medical, designing high speed vision systems for product process inspection of single use medical devices.  Mr. Pauly has a bachelor’s degree from Widener University, Chester, PA with a major in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Mechanical Engineering. He has experience in hardware, software, and mechanical engineering disciplines as well as bio-medical technology.

At present Mr. Pauly is a member of the Houston Technology Center Life Sciences screening committee as well as the Medical Device Mentor Network. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). He has five published patents to date with one additional patent pending approval.  Mr. Pauly is an active member of his church and an active member of the Knights of Columbus.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
7:00 am - 8:30 am

New Location:
Trevisio Restaurant (Water Wall Building in the Texas Medical Center)
6th Floor
6550 Bertner Ave (Off Holcombe Blvd, East of Fannin)
Houston, TX 77030
(713) 749-0400

Map: www.bmtchouston.org/meetings/location.asp

Pricing: Includes Breakfast Hospitality and Parking
$15 - Members with online reservations
$20 - Members with no reservations or non-members with online reservations
$25 - Non-members with no reservations

Reservations:
Online reservation requires all members AND non-members to setup an account on the BMTC web site.

Registration Closed

Payments by cash or check prior to the event are to be mailed to:
BMTC
P.O. Box 66488
Houston, TX 77266-6488

January 2006 forward, pre-registration payments by credit card are non-refundable with no-shows billed.

Day of Event Registration:
On site registrations are welcome the day of the event. Payment on site is by
cash or check only. Correct change is appreciated.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you at this event.

Bio/Medical Technology Club of Houston
www.bmtchouston.org

 

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