Ateneo Professional Schools
Makati City
July 11, 2016
The chairman of the Central and Marketing Cluster Dr. George Fong who attended last Saturday's forum on Medical Innovation was amazed at the quality and depth of the discussion by the speakers on Medical Innovation sponsored by the MBAH Entrep Class PM session. He said we should have held this with more preparation more marketing and did this at the auditorium (I was emailing him early on, but for some reasons the emails did not get through. Prof Larry Grey, IT professor, was amazed and asked who did this? I said it was the class. They planned it and financed the event.
Those who attended from the school top management were Dr Tony Del Carmen, program director for Ateneo Center for Entrepreneurship (we were together in at least 2 forum on entrepreneurship abroad) Dr. George Fong and Prof Larry Grey. Dr. Gloanne Adolor did not not make although Scientist Kim and yours truly talked to her noon time before the forum for the signature of the certificates
The program/forum is part of the requirement for the class, entrepreneur presentation. Bring the entrepreneur to the class for a talk
The forum was spearheaded by Dr. Dominic Velasco, MD and Scientist Kim Semon.
The emcee for the afternoon was Dra Lindsay Gail Winston Torralba - Garcia. The tokens expenses was shouldered by the Class
The speakers were:
Mr. Cedric Ng CEO of Ominifab
Dr. Rene Catan - President of Arthologic, maker of of knee implants It is significant to note that Dr Catan is an MBAH graduate, and of this class, and took up the same exercises and activities just like the others. Ii is hoped that what he took here honed him to be a great entrepreneur.
Dr. Francis Chung Jr. Co Director of MM Regenerative Center
As this was a prono bono affair, the class gave the speakers token of appreciation and Certificate of Appreciation from the Ateneo Graduate School of Busiiness
Some summaries of the talk:
Cedric Ng CEO of Omnifab
He is the grandson of HK Chinese immigrant who went to Naga City, established a lumber trading business, eventually moved to Manila where they set up hardware business. They lived in a entreswelo: living space at the top floor and business at the ground floor.
His talk is a superb education/learning on 3d printing. He said there are 3 types of printer:
1. fused deposition modeling
2. multi jet printing
3. direct metal laser sintering (the metal parts are done layer by layer)
The uses are mostly implants, prosthesis and surgical guides.and in the future bio printing Surgical guides are models of the body parts to be operated on and a 3d model is made so as to practice the procedure and He mentioned the doctors who use such technology: Drs. Rafael Bundoc and Rene Catan (the guest for the afternoon) and the President of PDA (who use this in braces and other dental procedures. (In private he mentioned that a technology department is proposing to invest in such a printer for use in metallurgy, defense, medicine, aerospace and rapid prototyping (for entrepreneurs)
His theme is enabling others to become extraordinary (doctors, manufacturers, entrepreneurs.
Dr. Rene Catan, MD, MBAH
The talk of Dr. Catan is a fusion of business (entrepreneurship, strama) and medical science, technology and mechanical engineering. His passion for nation building is seen from his theme of "democratizing knee surgery/implant. Being a man for others, magis, heroism (Ignatian spirituality must have been truly internalized by him. That he started his talk with a woman disabled by knee and then walking again normally (at the end) shows a remarkable concern for the lessening of pain of patients at a lower cost. True Atenean and nation building.
Business/entrepreneurship
Opportunity screening and seizing
1. He chose knee surgery although they do hip joint replacement because it is highly competitive and the prices has gone down. He went into knee joint replacement and implants because it less crowded/competitive. Their next competitor is much higher and they can still lower their cost
