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Devi Govender discusses her mission to transform cardiovascular care and the shift from treating heart failure to enabling heart recovery.

In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Managing Editor Kayleen Brown sits down with Johnson & Johnson MedTech Heart Recovery Worldwide President Devi Govender at DeviceTalks Boston. Govender shares how a deeply personal family experience shaped her mission to transform cardiovascular care. She reflects on Abiomed's integration into Johnson & Johnson, the evolution of heart recovery therapies, and why the industry must shift its mindset from treating "heart failure" to enabling "heart recovery." The discussion explores patient-centered innovation, AI, clinical evidence, and the power of combining technologies, data, and advocacy to redefine the future of cardiovascular care for patients around the world. This episode is sponsored by Freudenberg Medical. Listen for a conversation with Shane Healy, Senior Director of Technology. Visit FreudenbergMedical.com for more information. We'll kick off this episode with Newmarker's Newsmakers. Host Tom Salemi and MassDevice Editor Chris Newmarker revisit the top MedTech stories of the week: Zeta Surgical, Hologic, Medtronic, Fractyl Health, and Vicarious Surgical. --- Enjoy the show? Follow DeviceTalks Weekly on all major podcast…

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Host: Kayleen Brown

Guest: Devi Govender

Topics covered

• cardiovascular care
• heart recovery
• patient-centered innovation
• AI in healthcare
• clinical evidence
• MedTech news

Keywords

• heart recovery
• cardiovascular care
• patient-centered innovation
• AI
• clinical evidence
• MedTech
• Johnson & Johnson
• Abiomed

Sponsors

Freudenberg Medical

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Johnson & Johnson MedTech, Abiomed, MassDevice, Zeta Surgical, Hologic, Medtronic, Fractyl Health, Vicarious Surgical

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