In their keynote, Drew Davis and Eric Nickel explore how the rise of 3D printing and scanning technologies have transformed healthcare. They will talk about how and why medical devices that match patient-specific anatomy are now often printed at the point of care. Ensuring the safety of these devices may require a reimagining of traditional engineering verification and validation testing.
Davis is additive manufacturing engineer at RECOVER Center (Minneapolis VA Medical Center) and Nickel is research biomedical engineer at Minneapolis VA Health Care System. In their keynote, they bring their experience to look at how 3D printing technology has intersected with the prosthetics field. Moreover, they explain how this has created a need for new approaches to testing medical devices with patient-matched geometry, through the example of prosthetic sockets.
