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Medical Textiles Focus Group Visits the College

On April 19th 2002, ten medical textiles companies took part in a focus group at the NCSU College of Textiles. The focus group was centered around a new concentration in Medical Textiles that the college began offering in Fall 2002. After months of meetings, the faculty steering committee developed the curriculum for this concentration and it was time to receive feedback on the courses that we would potentially be offering.

The focus group participants were:

-Dorothy Abel, of the US Food and Drug Adminstration Center for Devices and Radiological Health
-Denise Couture, of Kimberly Clark
-John Evans of BSN Medical, C.C. Friedheim of Hill-Rom
-Skott Greenhalgh of Prodesco
-Micheal Helmus of Boston Scientific
-John Smith of Precision Fabrics Group
-Jim Snipes of Carolina Narrow Fabrics
-Joel Williams of Becton Dickinson
-Howard Zins of Howard Zins Associates

These companies show a variety of range in the medical products they produce, but that was the point. The college wanted to cover a wide array of the industry in an effort to position our students to be wanted by many sectors of the medical textiles industry.

Each of these participants provided critical information to help enhance the education that our graduates will be receiving with this concentration. This is a truly unique program because no one else in the country has a program that brings together the medical industry with textiles. This concentration will offer three different tracks and any major at the College of Textiles can obtain one of these concentrations:

-BioMedical Textiles
-Medical Textiles
-Healthcare Product Management

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