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After AdvaMed, Yared Takes Helm Of MDIC Board

CVRx CEO Nadim Yared has moved up on the board of directors at the Medical Device Innovation Consortium as its new chair. The public-private partnership group that formed in 2012 has been effective in working with the US Food and Drug Administration to develop new regulations.

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• Source: Ferdous Al-Faruque

Just months after ending his tenure as chair of the medical device lobby group AdvaMed, Nadim Yared is the new chair of the Medical Device Innovation Consortium, a highly influential public-private partnership that has helped the US Food and Drug Administration develop new regulations.

Yared, who is also CEO of the small medical device company CVRx Inc., ended his tenure as chair of AdvaMed in April where the main issues he lobbied for were repeal of the 2.3% medical device excise tax and reimbursement hurdles. Over the next two years as chair of MDIC, his focus will turn more to regulations and the FDA’s regulatory pathway. (Also see "New AdvaMed Chair Lobo: Devices Has A Good Story To Tell" - In Vivo, 1 May, 2019

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