R&D Masterclass + Thursday
Join us for Catheter Innovation Week! This is the combined offering that includes Damian Carr's standard 2-day R&D Masterclass and an advanced Catheter & Clinical Workshop. Purchasing both classes together entitles you to a bulk discount and free access to Wednesday's invite only office hours.
Dates: Monday - Thursday, October 12-15, 2026
MAX Capacity: 10 Students
Monday-Tuesday
Class: Damian Carr's Catheter R&D Masterclass
Location: BayCath Medical, 319 N Bernardo Ave Mountain View CA 94043
Schedule:
8:30AM - Facility Opens
9AM - Workshop Begins
10:30-11:00AM - Coffee, Tea & Pastries Provided
12:30-1:30PM - Lunch Provided
3-3:30PM - Afternoon Snack Provided
5PM - Workshop Ends
Wednesday
Event: Open Development Day & Office Hours (Invite Only)
Location: BayCath Medical, 319 N Bernardo Ave Mountain View CA 94043
Drop in office hours with our catheter experts onsite. Bring your device-specific questions or an idea for what you'd like to learn more about. This is an optional, informal event.
Thursday
Date: Thursday, October 15, 2026
Focus: Neuro
Location: UCSF Mission Bay
MAX Capacity: 10 Students
Tentative Activities*
Live Neurovascular Case, Narrated by Dr. Snyder
Lecture: Clinical Immersion for Engineers by Dr Snyder
Q&A Panel w/ Surgeons
Lecture: The Jacob's Institute Method
Lecture: The Biodesign Method
Cath Lab Tour
*Subject to Change based on Patient & Surgery Priorities
Tentative Schedule*
8:30AM - Facility Opens
9:00 AM - Workshop Begins
10:00 - 11:00 - Live Case (or recorded as backup) @ Jacobs Institute - Dr Snyder
12:30 PM - Provided Lunch
5:30PM - Workshop Ends
*Subject to Change based on Patient & Surgery Priorities
Included: The Catheter R&D Handbook by Damian Carr ($175 value)
Included: BayCath Laminated Catheter Reference Sheet ($50 Value)
Program Overview: The one-day workshop will familiarize attendees with the fundamentals of catheter design while empowering them to ask better questions and make more informed design modifications. By helping engineers recognize gaps between a device’s intended use and how it is actually used in the clinical environment, the program fosters greater empathy for physicians and hospital systems and ultimately, better device designs.
Learning Objectives - After attending the workshop, attendees will:
Recognize the critical value of clinical involvement early in the device development cycle
Have an awareness and empathy for the realistic high-stakes clinical experience and decision‑making process, which will reframe how they think about potential failure modes and hazardous situations
Have insights into how physicians manage complications and challenges and better understand why physicians decide not to follow an IFU verbatim and use devices off label
Have learned to identify mismatches, anticipate potential misuse, and develop design modifications that better align devices with the realities of clinical practice.
Understand the impact of systems such as procurement, reimbursement, and supply chain on device adoption.
Gain familiarity with catheter design and an understanding of how each component decision fundamentally constrains or enables downstream performance tuning
Have acquired a deeper understanding of the base materials that can be used to produce the majority of minimally invasive flexible devices
Included: The Catheter R&D Handbook by Damian Carr ($175 value)
Included: BayCath Laminated Catheter Reference Sheet ($50 Value)
More Details: https://eyedea.ie/2-day-workshop-sub-page/
