Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Hosts CTIP Accelerator Symposium Advocating for Patient Voice in Development of Pediatric Medical Devices
Summary
The symposium concluded with remarks by representatives from the FDA, NIH, and NCC-PDI who emphasized the need to bring together patients and families with manufacturers, researchers, clinicians, educators, and other key stakeholders in order to ensure that safe and effective medical devices are developed specifically for children.The West Coast Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics (CTIP) is a pediatric medical device accelerator centered at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) in collaboration with the University of Southern California. CTIP addresses the most important component missing from pediatric device innovation: simultaneously engaging clinicians, engineers, regulators, hospital administrators, patients and the business community in the process of assessment and development of technology. For portfolio companies, CTIP fosters networking opportunities, direct and indirect financial support and guidance on issues related to, but not limited to, intellectual property, prototyping, engineering, testing, grant writing and clinical trial design. CTIP has a network of childrens hospitals, academic institutions, accelerators and incubators across the West Coast to support the commercialization of pediatric medical devices. To learn more about CTIP, follow them on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter, and visit their website at https://www.westcoastctip.org/.Childrens Hospital Los Angeles is at the forefront of pediatric medicine, offering acclaimed care to children from across the world, the country and the greater Southern California region.