2009 -2010 Corporate Sponsors
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Abbot Point of Care manufactures the I-Stat System, an advanced handheld blood analyzer that provides real time, lab quality results within minutes to accelerate the patient care decision-making process.
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AGA Medical Corporation is dedicated to development, design, manufacture, and marketing of ntinol-based occlusion devices and accessories for the minimally invasive treatment of cardiovascular defects and peripheral vascular disease.
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AmeriCares is a nonprofit disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization which provides immediate response to emergency medical needs – and supports long-term humanitarian assistance programs – for all people around the world, irrespective of race, creed or political persuasion.
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Founded in 1981, Atrium is a diversified healthcare provider where improved patient outcomes is “job one” for every member of the firm. From the cardiac cath-lab to the operating room, Atrium continues to invest in those leading edge technologies that best satisfy our financial goals and contribute to important advancements in patient care.
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Cardinal Health, Inc. is a Fortune 18 company that improves the cost-effectiveness of health care. As the business behind health care, Cardinal Health helps pharmacies, hospitals and ambulatory care sites focus on patient care while reducing costs, improving efficiency and quality, and increasing profitability.
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Since 1963, Cook Group companies have been among the leaders in developing healthcare devices that have improved lives around the world. COOK is at the forefront of medical research and worldwide sales of products for endovascular therapy, critical care medicine, general surgery, diagnostic and interventional procedures, bioengineered tissue replacement and regeneration, gastroenterology and endoscopy procedures, urology, and obstetrics and gynecology.
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In separating from Tyco International, Tyco Healthcare has become Covidien, a $10 billion global healthcare products leader dedicated to innovation and long-term growth. Offering an extensive product line that spans medical devices, pharmaceuticals and medical supplies, Covidien serve healthcare needs in hospitals, long-term care and alternate care facilities, doctors’ offices and in the home. Covidien’s featured product brands are Autosuture, Kendall, Nellcor, Syneture, Devon, Puritan Benett and Valleylab
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ICU Medical was founded in 1984 by Dr. George Lopez, a practicing internist who imagined that there must be a better way of securing I.V. lines after tragically losing a patient due to an accidental disconnect. Dr. Lopez conceived a product, later known as the Click Lock, which provided a locking mechanism for these I.V. systems. The Click Lock was comprised of a protected needle which would also serve to prevent health care workers from being accidentally stuck by the I.V. needles. Today, with a market cap of close to 500 million ICU has an impressive list of landmark products.
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GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their patients can live their lives to the fullest.
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Founded in 1958, W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. is a privately-held company headquartered in Newark, Delaware, USA. For more than 50 years, Gore has built a worldwide reputation for ethics and integrity in its dealings with customers, suppliers, and employees, and for taking a long-term view when assessing business situations. While we may be best known for our GORE-TEX® fabrics, all our products are distinguished in their markets. Our technologies and fluoropolymer expertise are unsurpassed
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King Systems, a global organization, a division of Consort Medical, is a custom manufacturer of anesthesia and respiratory care products, King Systems offers full research and development, quality assurance, marketing, and sales operations. Although its products are shipped to nearly every continent, the company takes pride in its American made products. King Systems now offers more than 3,500 different circuit configurations, four product lines of face masks, and hundreds of other products.
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MAP International in a non profit that promotes the Total Health of people living in the world’s poorest communities by partnering to:
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At Medtronic, we're changing the face of chronic disease. By working closely with physicians around the world, we create therapies to help patients do Our six major businesses focus their efforts around a condition or therapy type: Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management, Spinal and Biologics, CardioVascular, Neuromodulation, Diabetes, and Surgical Technologies.things they never thought possible.
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Minntech Corporation is a leader in developing, manufacturing, and marketing medical devices, sterilants, and water purification products. Minntech is expanding into new businesses based on its internally developed core technologies in hollow fiber membrane devices, chemical sterilants, dialysis solutions, and electronic products. The Company's products are used in kidney dialysis, open-heart surgery, endoscopy, and in the preparation of pure water for medical, industrial and laboratory use. Minntech, founded in 1974.
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Smiths Medical is a leading global provider of medical devices for the hospital, emergency, home and specialist environments. Our products are used during critical and intensive care, surgery, post-operative care during recovery, and in a series of high-end home infusion therapies. Smiths brands include Portex, Medex, CADD, Portex, Medfusion, Wallace, Graseby and Deltec among others.
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