Med Tech Talks Ep. 77: Scott Phillips Pt. 1

Building machines is hard. Building medical devices is even harder. But Scott Phillips and his company, StarFish Medical do it with laser-sharp precision, and have been doing so for the better part of the last two decades now.

On part 1 of this week’s episode of Med Tech Talks, we chat with one of the pioneers of the medical device design industry, Scott Phillips. An engineer by profession, Scott is one of the most revered personalities in the field of medical device design, and has a lot of stories to tell about how he’s got to where he is today.

Timestamps

01:15-03:15 - What’s in a name? What’s in a shape?

04:05-06:42 - Scott’s experiences working as an engineer, prior to StarFish Medical.

06:43-08:30 - Life as a contract engineer, and how it was a precursor for the things to come.

08:31-11:25 - The origin story of StarFish Medical, with a special cameo of a sleeping baby 👶

11:26-14:14 - Working with other engineers vs. working alone; what's the difference?

14:15-16:25 - The initial challenges of running StarFish Medical, and how Scott navigated his way through them.

16:26-19:55 - Shifting the company's focus on a particular niche in the medical industry, and establishing StarFish as a design company.

19:56-23:16 - The importance of having highly-skilled professionals in an extremely regulated industry, such as the medical devices industry.

23:17-24:41 - The evolution of Scott Phillips Engineering into StarFish Medical.

24:42-31:10 - The “Pathfinder Process” - What exactly it is, and its utility in the work that StarFish does.