Pratik Patel

I am medical technology marketing expert with over 10 years of experience in healthcare who now develops a go-to-market strategy in the medical device sector. In five years, I have driven Brainlab to be the dominant player in the neurosurgery Image Guided Surgery (IGS) market. As a regional marketing manager for North America, my responsibility includes product marketing, product development, and business development in Neuro, ENT, and intra-operative imaging.

*Developed animal models for the cardiovascular department's molecular imaging program. Using NIRF and MR imaging as tertiary screens for drug efficacy. *My team developed novel contrast agents and enhanced MR image acquition. This led a robust MRI assessment of atherosclerosis in rabbit abdominal aortas. *Quantitative image analysis software algorithms to speed up the drug development process. *Proficient in MR theory, troubleshooting MRI pulse sequences, optimizing contrast agents, image analysis.

*Developed and validated Angiosense for VisEn Medical. *Part of the development team that launched the Olympus FV1000 intravital confocal microscope to the market in 2004. *Develop novel imaging probes in several cancer mouse models. *Intravital confocal microscopy and microscopy core manager. *Published manuscript in nature medicine developing a novel imaging readout in arthritic mouse model of vascular leak. *3D and 4D reconstructions with confocal, CT/Spect, and MRI data set.

Medical Imaging and Biophysics

Neuroscience