Target Audience: "Early Adopter" Physicians and Investors in All Disciplines: 

• Plastic Surgeons
• ENT Facial Plastic Surgeons
• Dermatologists
• Podiatrists
• Wound Care Specialists
• Oral Surgeons
• Med-Tech and Life Science Entrepreneurs
• Venture Capital and Investor Community

 
Overall Objective:

• TIPS is the only forum which brings  together physician thought leaders from all disciplines with industry  to share information, solve problems, educate each other and address unmet needs.
  • Why TIPS? The pendulum has swung too far preventing dialog between industry and medicine. The result is that information is retained in silos and vital conversations are not taking place.
  • Over 400 practitioners, entrepreneurs, technology developers, researchers, investors came together at TIPS 2010 for the first time.
  • The ongoing purpose of TIPS is to maintain the dialog between these stakeholders and stimulate the creation of new clinical, technical and healthcare solutions by shortening the time between invention, development and commercialization.

Detailed Objectives

• ACCLERATE INNOVATION FOR PATIENTS: Innovation is at the heart of all medical advances. There are many areas in aesthetic and reconstructive surgery for which adequate tools have not yet been developed and urgent needs remain unmet. The development of new technology requires a community capable of inclusive, broad-ranging communication between all relevant groups.  TIPS is building that community.
   
• OPTIMIZE R&D INVESTMENT FOR INDUSTRY: TIPS helps the medical device industry avoid the graveyard of unsuccessful technology, by providing a broad window into what active clinicians want and need in their practice. It also provides a forum to differentiate  hype from medical efficacy, allowing effective technologies to prosper.
   
• CREATE A “TECH SAVVY” PRACTIONER COMMUNITY: In plastic surgery, many unnecessary and ineffective technologies have been introduced. Clinical practitioners in plastic surgery have been oversold “me too”, commoditized products and have become cynical. TIPS reverses this perception by targeting “early adopter” physicians and allowing them to influence the direction of technology investment into more meaningful areas.