Actuated Medical

Actuated Medical co-founder, President and CEO Maureen Mulvihill [Photo courtesy of Actuated Medical]

Actuated Medical is making electrode placement for deep brain stimulation easier and less traumatic.

Nearly 16 years ago, Actuated Medical co-founder, President and CEO Maureen Mulvihill was working for a company making actuators that were the size of a grain of rice. While the company was focused on components, she wanted to help patients more.

“I was actually sitting in a doctor’s office and I was showing him the little actuators. He’s like, ‘Maureen, I don’t need that. I need the whole system FDA approved,'” she told Medical Design & Outsourcing.

Mulvihill understood that sentiment and went on to start Actuated Medical with the idea of putting motion into medicine.

Bellefonte, Pennsylvania-based Actuated Medical is a medical device product developmen…