{"id":680,"date":"2015-04-30T12:27:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T16:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eprup.com\/surg\/?p=680"},"modified":"2020-01-13T12:42:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T17:42:14","slug":"surgilum-a-finalist-at-the-2015-medical-design-excellence-awards-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surgilum.com\/update\/surgilum-a-finalist-at-the-2015-medical-design-excellence-awards-in-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgil\u016bm a finalist at the 2015 Medical Design Excellence Awards in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>Surgil\u016bm was announced as a finalist for the medtech industry&#8217;s premier awards program, the Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) in spring of 2015. Since the awards began in 1998, the MDEA&#8217;s mission has been &#8220;to recognize significant achievements in medical product design and engineering that improve the quality of healthcare delivery and accessibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Team members attended the awards ceremony on June 9, 2015 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, NY. Surgil\u016bm founder Dr. Alan Brown of Wilmington, NC remarked, &#8220;We may not have won an award this time, but as a young company, it was such an honor to have our first product be a finalist at this event next to products from multi-milion dollar medical industry giants. It&#8217;s every inventor, designer, and engineer&#8217;s dream to be invited to be a part of this kind of thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-btn-wrapper align_none\"><a class=\"w-btn us-btn-style_4 us_custom_80a192e9\" title=\"MD+DI Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry Article\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mddionline.com\/article\/2015-mdea-finalists-robomarker\"><span class=\"w-btn-label\">Read Full Article<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surgil\u016bm was announced as a finalist for the medtech industry&#8217;s premier awards program, the Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) in spring of 2015. 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