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Renewing members in April (to date):
Large Corporate Members:
• PNC Wealth Management, Tim Schlegel
• ICON Clinical Research, Susan Ruane
Duane Morris Welcomes Trial Partner Mary P. Hansen
PHILADELPHIA, April 13, 2020—Mary P. Hansen has joined Duane Morris LLP as a partner in the firm’s Trial Practice Group in its Philadelphia office. Prior to joining Duane Morris, Hansen was a partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.
Effective leadership traits are important to any organization in normal times. In extraordinary times such as now during the COVID-19 pandemic, these traits are critical.
Non-essential businesses and schools have been ordered to close, causing large swaths of the economy to shut down. Unemployment has risen astronomically.
Those with jobs are concerned if they are next to be laid off. Small-business owners may not have the staying power to outlast the pandemic even with the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program under the recently passed CARES Act.
CHOP spinoff, Villanova professor share the same goal: Produce a low-cost ventilator
Philadelphia Business Journal
Two initiatives, one by a startup medical device company in the Philadelphia suburbs and the other being led by a local university professor, are aiming to address the shortage of ventilators now in high demand by COVID-19 patients.
The Society of Critical Care Medicine has projected that during the pandemic as many as 960,000 coronavirus patients in the U.S. may need to be put on ventilators — but only about 200,000 currently exist.
X-Biomedical, a medtech company spun out of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2017, has decided to temporarily shift its focus to producing low-cost ventilators.
Creating a similar product is also the goal of a team from Villanova University that is led by College of Engineering Professor C. Nataraj.
Nataraj said conversations he had with several physician friends who talked about the need for ventilators is what spurred him to lead the project. The conversations include one who talked about signing death certificates for COVID-19 patients who may have otherwise been helped had more ventilators been available.
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Aramark begins making PPE gear for health care workers
Philadelphia Business Journal
Aramark will shift its uniforms production lines to make personal protective equipment for health care workers tackling the COVID-19 crisis.
The Philadelphia-based food, uniforms and facilities company said Monday it will produce respirator and medical masks, scrubs and isolation gowns. Shipments of scrubs and isolation gowns started last week. The manufacturing of respirator and medical masks is expected to start by mid-July. Aramark (NYSE: ARMK) expects to make “millions” of masks, scrubs and gowns.
