I hope everyone had a relaxing long-weekend of football watching and turkey (or Tofu-rky) eating. Just a couple important things to remember about turkeys:
The appendage over a turkey’s beak is called a snood. Female turkey’s prefer long-snooded males, and this behavior may be due to the fact that longer snooded males tend to carry a lower parasitic burden and are overall healthier (from an evolutionary standpoint).
A turkey’s gender (and many other birds) can be determined by the shape of its “droppings”. A male’s will be “J” shaped and a female’s will be spiral.
Also, please be aware of a couple of interesting talks through LA Biomed at the beginning of December.
The first one is by Dr. Henry Sucov a professor at USC who works on the developmental biology of heart development (among many other things). He has been involved with ground-breaking research into the molecular mechanisms behind congenital heart disease and will be discussing some of his work.
In addition, Dr. Ruey-Kang Chang, Chief of Pediatric Cardiology, will be talking at a meeting of The Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE) in the LA Biomed CDCRC building on December 6, 2016about the founding of his cutting edge device company, QTMedical.
The Society of Physician Entrepreneurs re-Launches its LA Chapter with a Meeting to be Held on December 6th at LA BioMed’s CDCRC Conference Center in Torrance:
“Idea to product – the QTMedical story”
Torrance, Calif. – November 22, 2016 – LA BioMed announced today that it will host the kickoff meeting of the newly re-established Los Angeles Chapter of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE) at its CDCRC Conference Center in Torrance, Calif. on December 6, 2016 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
The Event: “Need to Idea to Product – the QTMedical story”
This events topic is a must attend for any clinician with an entrepreneurial vision to change healthcare for the better. The keynote speaker is Ruey-Kang Chang, MD, the founder of QTMedical.com. Dr. Chang will speak about his own journey from a pediatric cardiologist with an idea for an improved 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) to the CEO of a company that has developed this idea into a platform technology with multiple applications. To date, QT Medical has been awarded over $2M in NIH SBIR support its product development and clinical trials and has raised over $4M in private investment to support is commercialization efforts. For tickets to this event please use this link (Tickets on Eventbrite).
That’s all for now! Stay warm!
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