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Filling The Device Sector's Diversity Gap: MedTech Color Builds Support

 
• By David Filmore

MedTech Color is focused on enhancing diversity in the device and diagnostics space and increasing thought leadership opportunities for people of color in the industry. The organization held a launch event at this year's MedTech Conference in Philadelphia, where Medtech Insight caught up with founder Kwame Ulmer.

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Kwame Ulmer talks about strategies for improving diversity in medtech • Source: Ferdous Al-Faruque

The device sector has fallen behind other industries in addressing the lack of ethnic diversity among its executives and entrepreneurs, and directed efforts are needed to address the gaps. That's the message from Kwame Ulmer and others who officially launched a new group last week called MedTech Color to help tackle the issue.

Medtech Insight caught up with Ulmer, a device industry consultant and former US FDA official, at the breakfast launch event for the group Sept. 26 in Philadelphia, where AdvaMed's MedTech...

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