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Industry Affiliates Program

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VISE Partners

Program Overview

VISE has established an Industry Affiliates Program (IAP) as a comprehensive community building effort to support collaborations for addressing today’s most pressing challenges in procedural medicine. More specifically, surgery and intervention are entering a transformative period requiring technologies to be data-enabling, efficient, and cost-effective, and support patient-specific tailored treatment approaches. Concurrently, personnel demands are also evolving with the goal of seeking a highly qualified and “enabling” workforce. The IAP offers industry partners ongoing engagement with the VISE community, providing access to a range of benefits including state-of-the-art research updates, opportunities to help shape educational programs, networking with affiliates and graduates, showcasing technologies to VISE members, and the possibility of supporting innovative technology development.

Membership benefits

  • Standard Annual Membership:

    Ideal for start-ups, updates on ongoing research, access to graduating talent pool, community acknowledgement, and board membership.

    • Opportunity for Industry Educational Advisory Board membership
    • VISE vignettes prospectus of program graduates
    • Website acknowledgement as VISE Industry Affiliate
    • Online live transmissions of VISE Symposium speaking event content
  • Select Annual Membership:

    Includes Standard benefits plus a wide array of annual Symposium access.

    Standard +

    • Annual Symposium invitation for attendance and private poster viewing
    • Symposium abstract prospectus
    • Symposium Demonstration Space
    • Acknowledgement as a VISE Industry Affiliate at VISE Symposium
    • Acknowledgement as a VISE Industry Affiliate within VISE Seminar Series
  • Premier Annual Membership:

    Includes Select and adds premier day-long demonstration events to all engineering and clinical VISE affiliates, and project sponsorship opportunities with maintained IP.

    Select +

    • Annual day-long research demonstration event of one of your technologies in the VISE mock OR (in the heart of the medical center) with availability to VISE Affiliates**
    • Opportunity for mentoring a Master of Engineering in Surgery and Intervention design project***
  • Additional Giving Opportunities
    • Naming opportunities for core facility labs
    • Research project seed funding programs
    • Physician-in-Residence clinical fellows program
    • Student innovation scholarships

Contact Us

To learn more about partnering with us through our Industry Affiliates Program, contact:

Michael Miga, PhD
Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering
Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Harvie Branscomb Professor