Dr. Ryan Lewis is a physician-executive recognized for his ability to create innovate solutions in the medical device arena. Dr. Lewis has held industry roles as product specialist, director of medical affairs, senior clinical director and chief medical officer for surgical oriented companies such as Megadyne Medical Products, W.L. Gore & Associates and Johnson & Johnson Ethicon. Combining a unique background of medicine/surgical training, product development experience and public health, Dr. Lewis has brought a valued perspective to strategic business innovation using his talents and skills to bring new products to market, support existing product lines and merger and acquisitions. Dr. Lewis has over 18 years of medical device industry experience with his most recent role providing support through the acquisition and integration of Megadyne Medical Products by Johnson & Johnson / Ethicon in 2017. Dr. Lewis provided a key role in preparing Megadyne as a competitive target by improving the customer experience and effectiveness of Megadyne products as well as creating new products enticing to prospective corporate buyers. As Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Lewis also served for over 10 years as one of three C-level executives on the executive board. Dr. Lewis also provided medical insight into safety and quality issues related to the potential and real use of medical devices. During this 10 year period, Dr. Lewis successfully executed four clinical studies intended for use by the sales force in evidence-based selling. One of the studies was a landmark multi-center study supporting the ACE Blade, a key technology relaunched by Johnson & Johnson this year and hailed as a great success.