New clinical affairs VP for WorldHeart
This article was originally published in RAJ Devices
Executive Summary
Monica Hope has joined WorldHeart, a US-based developer of mechanical circulatory systems, as vice president of clinical affairs. Dr Hope will be responsible for conducting current and future clinical trials of WorldHeart's products. Dr Hope was previously director of clinical affairs at Second Sight Medical Products, a privately held US firm that is developing a retinal prosthesis for patients blinded by outer retinal degeneration. Salt Lake City, Utah-based WorldHeart is developing a ventricular device, Levacor, which it claims is the only fully magnetically levitated, bearingless, implantable centrifugal pump to move into clinical trials.