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The team of expert associates at BEC have strength and experience in both intellectual property claims and forensic engineering with a focus on technology assessment, equipment planning, acquisitioning, support services governance and structure, guidelines compliance and incident investigation programs. Our Team
Yadin DavidIn April 2008, Dr. David launched Biomedical Engineering Consultants, LLC (BEC) a consulting firm focusing on the optimization of the management of medical technology life cycles, including risk mitigation, patient safety, compliance validation and operational program efficiency issues. Biomedical Engineering Consultants advises clients in industry, health care delivery, hospitals, government agencies, and academic institutions on the engineering issues and other topics related to technical support services.Read David's Full Bio > 
James W. MeadorJames W. Meador is Co-Founder, President and CEO of Cormedics Corporation.Cormedics develops proprietary technologies for the interventional cardiology and cardiovascular surgery markets. Jim successfully drove Cormedics through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF) process and Cormedics was an awardee in 2009.
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Jim consults with Biomedical Engineering Consultants in litigations involving medical product design, intellectual property and device-related adverse events. Jim is also a Cofounder of TerraSep, Inc., an early stage California medical device company and a coinventor of the core patent of TerraSep’s first product, which will revolutionize liquid chromatography. For nine years through 2009, Jim served as President and Vice President of Fairway Medical Technologies. Under his direction, Fairway became a vertically integrated medical device design and manufacturing company. Jim led Fairway’s business model evolution into venture commercialization of a variety of new and innovative medical devices. In 2006 and 2008, Fairway was ranked #32 and #16 in Houston’s Fast Tech 50, the fifty fastest growing technology companies in the Houston area. Jim co-founded KVM Technologies and served as Executive Vice President for two decades. During his tenure at KVM, he was responsible for the clinical and contract services division, designing, manufacturing and introducing over 25 medical devices into the marketplace including designing Fairway’s centrifugal blood pump console. He also was Co-founder and COO of KVM Rehabilitation from 1992 through its sale in 1996. As a sophomore at Rice University, Jim began his biomedical career with the Rice/Baylor artificial heart program. Jim co-designed several total artificial hearts and drive consoles. After his graduation with a degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, he joined the Texas Heart Institute where he served as Head of Engineering for the Total Artificial Heart Program. He subsequently designed the console and engineering of the second artificial heart implanted in man. Jim is the author of a dozen peer reviewed papers, over 55 U.S. and foreign patents, and is a periodic lecturer at Rice on entrepreneurship and “real world” product development. 
William A. HymanWilliam Hyman is Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University (College Station) and is the President of the Healthcare Technology Foundation. His primary areas of professional activity are in medical device design, system safety and human factors, and clinical engineering.
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He is an editor of the Journal of Clinical Engineering and has served as a consultant for the FDA, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, NASA and medical device companies. Dr. Hyman is a member of the American College of Clinical Engineering and a recipient of their Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also a member of the Dallas District FDA/Industry Coalition and is a registered professional engineer in Texas. |
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Our in-depth knowledge of medical technology life cycles delivers proven methodology and outcome effectiveness for the implementation and improvement of optimal and safe programs including technology assessment, equipment planning, support services governance and structure, compliance and forensic investigation programs, and regulatory review.
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