What Medtech Launches Taught Me About Cross-Functional Leadership
#medical-electronics
#cross-functional-teams
#digital-health
#influence-without-authority
#product-launch
Getting regulatory, quality, commercial, and engineering teams aligned when nobody reports to you.
Drawn from launch-readiness work in medical device product development, this talk covers how to hold scope when capable teams push to expand it, how to surface trade-offs so groups reach decisions themselves, and how to escalate without damaging the relationships you depend on.
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- Santa Clara University
- Santa Clara, California
- United States
- Building: Alameda Hall
- Room Number: 108
- Starts 01 October 2026 04:00 PM UTC
- Ends 09 October 2026 06:00 AM UTC
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- Menu: Regular Sandwich, Vegetarian Sandwich
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Isha Sharma of MiniMed
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Isha Sharma is a program manager at MiniMed (formerly Medtronic Diabetes), where she leads development and global launch of patient-facing digital health applications deployed across 120 countries, coordinating engineering, software, regulatory, clinical, and quality teams. She previously led business development at Otomagnetics, an early-stage drug delivery startup, and began her career as an analyst at Bain & Company on healthcare and pharmaceutical engagements. Isha is an IEEE Senior Member with an M.Eng in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley and an MBA. She has completed 20+ peer reviews for scientific journals including IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, serves as a grant reviewer for the FDA’s Pediatric Device Consortia program, and judges industry innovation competitions. |
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