Designing for Reuse: Tackling the Challenges of Medical Devices
Prem-Sagar Tank
Consultant Mechanical Engineer
Team Consulting
Prem-Sagar Tank (Prem) is a member of Team Consulting‘s engineering group, where he works across both mechanical design and sustainability. With over 7 years‘ experience in medical device development, he has worked on products spanning drug delivery, diagnostics and surgical applications.
Prem has an inherent passion for the environment, working with Team‘s clients to help them find sustainable medical device solutions. An experienced analyst, he specialises in using LCA (Life Cycle Analysis) tools and actively employing principles for sustainable design within projects.
Team Consulting is a world-class partner in medical technology design and development. It specialises in innovating within a highly regulated space, employing the latest design approaches to create products that are not only compliant, but loved by end users. With an in house team of human factors specialists, engineers, regulatory experts and industrial designers, Team provides complete medical technology solutions for its clients.
At this event, Prem will be presenting the importance of using reusable medical devices, and the challenges of developing them. There will be discussions around the design considerations for reuse, such as material selection and user-perception, and ways to actively apply sustainability principles to device development.
