Paul Davison Reimagining Open Surgery with Lamina Surgical Stories in Life Sciences

Open surgery accounts for a third of all surgical procedures. Paul Davison puts the market at 35 million cases in the U.S. annually, growing at 9% a year, and the core tool used in most of them dates to the 1920s. In this episode of Stories in Life Sciences by MedAxis AI, Christopher Wilson sits down with Paul Davison, CEO and Co-founder of Lamina Surgical, to explore what it looks like to reimagine open surgery with advanced electrosurgery and integrated imaging.Paul has spent 30 years building medical devices at Baxter, Medtronic, ArthroCare, and Peak Surgical, which was acquired by Medtronic. He brings a founder's perspective that spans factory technician to CEO, and a deep understanding of how platform technologies evolve across clinical applications. At Lamina Surgical, he is building tools that combine electrosurgery with integrated imaging to give surgeons visibility they have not had before.We cover:Why the open surgery market represents 35 million U.S. procedures annually with minimal recent innovationElectrosurgery history: from William Bovie at Harvard in 1928 to today's safety gapsHow Lamina Surgical combines electrosurgery and integrated imaging for open surgeryPlatform technology pivots: how ArthroCare moved from coronary arteries to arthroscopyPlasma blade origin: how Peak Surgical was born from a Stanford eye surgery conceptSeed-stage MedTech funding: navigating a difficult early-stage capital environmentHow AI tools are helping lean founding teams replace early hiresPaul's journey from factory technician at Baxter to CEO at Lamina SurgicalWho this is for: founders and engineers in MedTech, open surgery, electrosurgery, surgical devices, and life sciences commercialization who want to understand how legacy clinical tools get reimagined.Guest: Paul DavisonCEO and Co-founder, Lamina Surgicalwww.laminasurgical.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-davison-medtechhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/lamina-surgicalHost:Christopher WilsonFounder, Medaxis AIwww.medaxisai.orghttps://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-wilson-medaxisai https://www.linkedin.com/company/medaxisaiFollow Stories in Life Sciences on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube for new episodes.