Kayleen Brown

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Managing Editor, DeviceTalks Podcast Network (Podcast)

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Business and Finance, Health, Opinion and Editorial, Science, Technology

As seen in: DeviceTalks Podcast Network (Podcast), Newsweek, Mass Device, Medical Design & Outsourcing, MedTech Strategist, My Strategist, Medical Design Sourcing

Covers: Health Technology Medical Devices New Medical Technology Go-to-market strategies Start-ups Business Strategies New Markets Interviews Investors Dealmaking HealthTech BioTech Wearables

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Managing Editor @DeviceTalks • #Host of #DeviceTalksAI & #MedtechWOMENTalks • 18 yrs in #medtech - host, journalist, moderator, speaker #AI #medicaldevice

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I'm a MedTech business strategist and HealthTech journalist with 15 years in medical device intelligence and research.

I am currently serving as Managing Editor, DeviceTalks, where I help to amplify the voices in MedTech through podcasts, interviews, thought-leadership articles, and in-person device conferences.

I also write for Newsweek as their HealthTech Expert and am a member of the Newsweek Expert Forum. I'm also proud to sit on the steering committee for ScaleHealth’s ScaleOC, a global…

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How Wearable Technology Impacts Diagnostics and Health Changes

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How Wearable Technology Impacts Diagnostics and Health Changes

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From Drones on the Battlefield to Breaking the Millisecond Barrier: Robotic Telesurgery in the 21...

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Knowing What “Good” Looks Like — Astrin Biosciences’ Jaime LaMontagne

Aug 28, 2026 |

By Kayleen Brown

| DeviceTalks Podcast Network (Podcast)

The best leaders do more than set a vision. They know what good looks like—and can help others build toward it. In this episode of the Women in MedTech podcast, Host Kayleen Brown talks with Jaime LaMontagne, Chief Marketing Officer of Astrin Biosciences, about the leadership skills behind effective MedTech marketing. Jaime reflects on her 18 years at Medtronic, where she held a series of marketing and leadership roles across urology, neuromodulation, cardiac rhythm, and perfusion.

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Inner Logic CEO Porras explains how autonomous surgery can save us from looming surgeon shortage

Aug 21, 2026 |

By Kayleen Brown

| DeviceTalks Podcast Network (Podcast)

In this podcast episode, Tito Porras, MD, MBA, CEO and co-founder of startup Inner Logic, shares his unusual path to MedTech entrepreneurship with Host Tom Salemi. Dr. Porras was training to become a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins when he began questioning the limits of surgeon training. He realized that even better training wouldn’t solve the larger problem: there aren’t enough surgeons to provide the care patients need.

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Medtronic’s Grubb on Bringing a Structuralist Perspective to a Growing Structural Heart Portfolio

Aug 14, 2026 |

By Kayleen Brown

| DeviceTalks Podcast Network (Podcast)

In this episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, Host Tom Salemi welcomes Kendra Grubb, MD, vice president and chief medical officer of Medtronic’s Structural Heart business. Dr. Grubb fulfilled her childhood ambition of becoming a cardiac surgeon and an interventionalist. In this episode, Dr. Grubb discusses how structural heart has transformed over the past two decades and why she believes the field is approaching another major disruption.

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What was your first job as a journalist?

Published in 'Rhythms of Life' - 2001

What does it mean to be a journalist?

To be given the responsibility to ethically and honestly tell stories that will directly inform perspectives and cause action.