SEMDA 2019 is in the books. Thank you to our staff, sponsors, program participants, PitchRounds judges, PitchRounds companies and those who traveled great distances to join us. A special thank [...]

Around 18 percent of all heart attack victims will wind up readmitted to the hospital within thirty days. For twenty-five percent of all heart attack victims, it is not their first experience [...]

A record number of companies applied to PitchRounds this year, with nearly 60 companies looking for slots at the SEMDA Conference. We’ve selected the best of the bunch from states across [...]

On September 24th, 2016, Dean Otto was paralyzed from the waist down when he was hit by a truck riding his bike in Charlotte, NC. “I heard brakes, I felt the impact, and immediately, I was just [...]

Much has been made of Chattanooga’s rising prominence as a hub for entrepreneurial innovation across multiple industry sectors. Inc. reported in 2018 Chattanooga created $1.8 billion in startup [...]

Birmingham has a long history of industrial manufacturing. As the legacy steel factories and iron smelters give way to modern facilities, including brownfield reclamation that includes population [...]

With Shyam Parekh, Ph.D., Director, Strategy & Business Development, Avanos Medical. Inc.. Shyam Parekh’s role, as part of the Avanos’s corporate strategy group is to support the senior [...]

The Conference Steering Committee is preparing outstanding content for the 2019 SEMDA Medtech Conference. Below are summaries for currently ‘known’ panels. More details on the way [...]