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Exec Chat: Biosense Webster Is Ready For Next Chapters Of The Electrophysiology Story (Part II)

 
• By Reed Miller

In Part II of Medtech Insight’s extensive interview, Michael Bodner, the worldwide president of Johnson & Johnson/Biosense Webster, talked about the company’s vision for electrophysiology beyond the first generation of pulsed field ablation and the company’s commitment to improving diversity and inclusion.

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Medtech Insight talked to Michael Bodner, the worldwide president of Johnson & Johnson/Biosense Webster, about his company’s plans to compete in the cardiac ablation market as pulsed field ablation gradually supplants older technologies in the electrophysiology lab.

In the second part of the interview, Bodner looked forward to the near future of electrophysiology as well as the...

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