ARU NHS The Big Pitch Booklet

14 BigPitch The Dr Alastair Darwood Clinical Research Fellow in Bioengineering, Clinical Director of Darwood IP and Inspired Ventilation Alastair graduated from the University of Nottingham Medical School in 2016 securing a prestigious Academic Foundation Training Programme in surgery at St Mary’s Hospital, London. With a passion for technology and innovation Alastair founded his first company, Prometheus Surgical in 2014 to develop and commercialise an internationally award-winning orthopaedic guidance technology. Following successful fundraising, IP protection and prototyping, Alastair led the sale of the company to a major UK orthopaedic tool manufacturer in May 2017 where he continues to be involved with ongoing development and human trials. Alastair is currently commercialising multiple medical device inventions such as a novel critical care ventilator and an automated sedation system. The COVID pandemic provided a development springboard for Alastair’s ventilator device where he was lucky enough to be selected to work in collaboration with Project Pitlane under the direction of the Cabinet Office. Email: [email protected] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alastair- darwood-b43a6446/ Dr Elliot Street Doctor and Co-Founder and CEO of Inovus Medical Dr Elliot Street is the Co-Founder and CEO of Inovus Medical, a multi award winning designer and manufacturer of medical and surgical simulators. Elliot started Inovus from his student bedroom during his final year at Manchester Medical School with the aim to democratise access to affordable, accessible and functional surgical simulators. Elliot and his Co-Founder decided that vertical integration of manufacturing, design and sales would be the best way to build a sustainable business from the ground up. Since its conception in 2012 the company has grown its base in St Helens to include a wide armamentarium of manufacturing techniques including production level 3D printing, raised over £2 million in outside capital and sold products in over 60% of NHS Trusts and 70 countries worldwide. www.inovus.org Email: [email protected] Twitter: @inovusmedical LinkedIn: @inovusmedical Facebook: Inovus Medical The Clinical Entrepreneur Programme is amazing, full of energy, optimism and the art of the possible. It finds a home away from home for those individuals who have an urge to make things better and accelerates their development and impact on the NHS.