Ravi Pamnani is a Biodesign alumni and marketing manager of Transcendent, a medtech startup in San Francisco. The Biodesign program from Stanford University is a cross-discipline course to educate better medical device entrepreneurs. This presentation was given in August 2014 in Brazil for the MedTech World, as part of launch of the research I Research on R&D for medical devices in Brazil created by Empreender Saude, that can be found at the link: http://www.slideshare.net/EmpreenderSaude/i-pesquisa-status-da-indstria-de-medical-devices-no-brasil