Musings on VR Implementing Experience

Going through this week, my main focus was on the clinical implementation projects for this coming year. Our team met to discuss the MilkyWaves project, which Hannah and Christine are leading, with local contacts here in Costa Rica. Hearing more about the project, how...

Swinging Through Summer (and Monteverde)

Wow, we only have two weeks left in Costa Rica! The summer has gone by so fast, but I am starting to get homesick and am ready to see my family again before moving down to Houston. Last week, Annie and I got to start doing some testing for our guidewire test method...

Flying Through Summer

“The days feel long, but the years go fast.” I feel like that’s how parents describe their kids growing up, but I am going to change ‘years’ to ‘weeks’ and use the phrase to describe my internship. Work days definitely feel long at times, but I can’t believe I only...

Neonates Need Nutrients

This week was the first time I began making progress for my implementation project: MilkyWaves. I’ll be working with Christine to further develop this device into a product which could be used by various hospitals in Costa Rica.  MilkyWaves Mission One of the most...
Getting Things Done!

Getting Things Done!

This is the second to last week of my internship at Establishment Labs. I took a moment to reflect back on my experience and thought about what I have done. The company is making strides in developing the future of medical devices. As part of that future, they are...

Scorpions, Spiders and Sloths… Oh My !

The prototyping stage of any device is a never-ending cycle of designing, building, presenting, meeting and repeating. Unfortunately, the time in which one does actual prototyping is significantly shorter relative to the time spent meeting and discussing everyone’s...

Navigating Through the Unknown

We finally got the documentation we needed to get started on our implementation projects! Thus, this week has consisted of navigating my way through work and the project. With work, I finished running the second round of pull tests and analyzing the data. Thus, the...

Let’s Get It Done!

My product team and I had an eventful week! Here’s what was going on at Boston Scientific: Two corporate-level R&D engineers were visiting Speed and volume of our production line output increased The supplier investigation continued and is somewhat urgent We in...

Making Waves

Premature babies are a little population with a big vulnerability, and thanks to modern technology, even the tiniest preterm baby has a shot at survival. However, in low-to-mid income countries (LMIC), these babies don’t receive the nutrients they desperately need to...

TruVent 2019!

It is hard to believe that we are leaving Costa Rica next week. I am sad to say goodbye to my coworkers, the rainforest, and the beaches, but excited to move to Houston and get started on our projects and classes. As I mentioned last week, I will be leading the...