Medical Device Product Development in Cleveland

Join us on Friday, October 10 as part of the Case Western Reserve University Entrepreneurship Speaker Series for a roundtable discussion with Hiroyuki Fujita (CWR '98), Director of the Board for Daiichi Sankyo and American Regent, Inc and Co-Founder at Kanza AI.

An immigrant and industrialist from Japan, Hiroyuki Fujita, Ph.D. is the founder and CEO of Quality Electrodynamics (QED), a global developer and manufacturer of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) RF coils located in Cleveland, Ohio. In October 2019, QED became a subsidiary of Canon Inc. based in Tokyo, with Dr. Fujita also serving as chief technology officer of the CT-MR Division of
Canon Medical Systems Corporation (CMSC), headquartered in Tochigi, Japan. He was recently appointed as chairman of Canon Healthcare USA, Inc., which has started its US operations in 2023.

Dr. Fujita is an active member of numerous boards in the US and abroad. He currently serves as chairman of the
Board of Trustees at The Ohio State University (OSU) and Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital. He is a trustee of the OSU Wexner Medical Center, a board member of The Greater Cleveland Partnership, The Cleveland Orchestra, and the Board of Governors at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University, to name a few. He serves as inaugural Honorary Consul of Japan in Cleveland and is a member of the U.S.-Japan Council’s Board of Councilors. He is also an adjunct full professor at Case Western Reserve University in
the Departments of Physics and Radiology.

In 2013 he published his autobiography, “A Pathfinder” (Shōgakukan), and in 2021, his second book entitled “Fail
Fast! Creating the Future by Learning Lessons from our Mistakes” (Wedge, Tokyo). He also authored a monthly
editorial in “Wedge Magazine” (JR Tokai; 5/2017-8/20).
To register for this event, please indicate your in-person or virtual attendance. We will also be broadcasting this roundtable to LinkedIn Live on our LinkedIn page.

The Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship hosts discussions from highly-accomplished industry professionals to speak with current students and alumni who are interested in topics within the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Participating guests are encouraged to arrive prepared with questions and topics for discussion.

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