IMTS Medical Day at the Innovation Center

Register today and mark your calendar for Friday, September 12, 2008 at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. at Booth D-4168, Lakeside Center (East Building). You will be participating in one of the most informative events to educate, enlighten and inform you about the medical industry. The topic for IMTS Medical Day at the Innovation Center – sponsored by Today's Medical Developments – will be "The Future of Medical Technologies and Manufacturing: Where We Are, Where We Are Headed."

This free presentation will provide an overview of major trends, macro issues, and development of emerging markets, explaining how these impact the medical equipment manufacturing market – with a focus on future trends that are impacting the market now and over the next five years. Speaker Greg Caressi will discuss and analyze growth markets by product type and geography, along with trends in outsourcing. Major focus of the presentation will be on the following:

• Top Global Healthcare Trends
• Shifting Demands of Consumers
• Healthcare Paradigm Shifts
• Top Growth Markets in Medical Devices and Equipment
• Impact of BRIC Countries as Buyers and Sellers of Medical Technology
• Major Trends in Outsourcing

Learn From the Top

Caressi is senior vice president of the healthcare & life sciences group at Frost & Sullivan, serving as the business unit leader for North American and Latin American operations. In this role, Caressi oversees research teams covering the following technology areas:

• Healthcare & Life Sciences Information Technology
• Medical Imaging
• Patient Monitoring
• Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology
• Medical Devices
• Drug Discovery Technologies
• Clinical Diagnostics

In his 10 years at Frost & Sullivan, Caressi has served in executive management roles covering the range of professional services under the Frost & Sullivan umbrella: subscription services, consulting projects, and sales and business development teams. Additionally, Caressi has directed Frost & Sullivan's overall business expansion into Latin America.

Caressi has been involved in the management of hundreds of deliverables, covering both consulting projects and subscription services in his roles as a research director and business development executive. In addition to authoring numerous reports in his areas of focus, Caressi has been involved in a wide range of strategic consulting projects. He has advised clients on market trends, implications and strategies on diverse topics such as next-generation technologies, end user and product/feature/pricing analysis, merger and acquisition target analysis, international market expansion strategies, detailed demand modeling, and competitive analysis.

Caressi has been an instrumental part of the development of Frost & Sullivan's research team expansion into Latin America and China, and has worked extensively on projects involving international teams of analysts, for clients from both developed and developing country markets.

Prior to joining Frost and Sullivan, Caressi worked in the fields of economics, marketing and export promotion in the U.S. and China, specializing in the economies of developing nations and research in emerging markets. In addition, Caressi has worked as an educator for 18 years, most recently as an instructor of Corporate Finance, International Finance, and Business Intelligence at Dominican University in San Rafael, CA.

Caressi has served as chairman and speaker at a number of industry conferences in the U.S., Asia, and Latin America, with a special focus on emerging applications of new technologies and developing countries. In addition, Caressi has served as a trainer at Frost & Sullivan events in the U.S., Asia and Latin America in the areas of Market Analysis and Business Intelligence.