Medical Device Packaging Innovation with Kate Stephenson

Kate is a fourth-generation machinist and Stanford University engineering Ph.D. Her research and private consulting practice focus on matching medical innovation with the manufacturing technologies needed to develop, test and manufacture them.

On this episode, we'll talk about:

• What are some of the ways that medical device packaging differs from the packaging we encounter on a daily basis?
• the very critical functions that packaging actually performs and making sure that the device works the way it's supposed to.
• What are the other changes she has seen in the last couple of years as the world has battled against COVID?
• Have there been certain parts of the packaging value chain that have been more difficult to trace?
• What is unique or special about the labeling requirements in medical device packaging or the different considerations that must be made?
• How does medical device packaging help against all of the different counterfeits and fakes out there? the significant role of packaging in this.
• Sustainability and packaging have been a big topic. Has it also kind of been a part of the medical device packaging world?
• How to accomplish all of these things and still try to save pennies on the packaging? 
• Packaging is expensive in developed nations around the world. In comparison to the actual drug, it's quite low. Is this true or untrue?
• Her advice or thoughts for the packaging industry as a whole as they're thinking about the medical device packaging industry.
• DYAD Engineering
• What does her favorite quote from Steven Johnson mean to her?

Dr. Katherine J. Stephenson is an engineer, researcher, public speaker and writer with over 20 years and 60+ products worth of design and development experience. She has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and has developed and taught multiple classes and workshops in medical device innovation. She is particularly passionate about the ways manufacturing technologies can support and even drive innovation in medical devices

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