Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

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Bringing this webcast originally posted by Daktari ten days ago again, since something about that was bothering me, and it keeps popping back into my mind.

http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/online/webcasts/surginnovations/surgery-2014/present-future-of-robotic-surgery/webcast.asp

At 26:10, when presenting Titan, Dr. Anvari provides an empty slide describing Titan. It is a pretty nasty stab from an academic perspective. It may simply be an issue of sour grapes of not having been invited by Titan to be more strongly involved, especially because of the geographical vicinity of his center to Titan (http://www.csii.ca/about_csii/leadership/board_of_directors), or maybe there is more to it. Any thoughts?

What I did like was that Dennis Fowler addressed this stab later in the webcast. Again, very polite of course, as these things go in academia, but the feeling is that there is a lot of undercurrent there. I just can’t figure out what.