Meet Maureen L. Mulvihill

Credit: Actuated Medical, Inc. Maureen L. Mulvihill, Ph.D. Fields: Materials science, logistics Works at: Actuated Medical, Inc., a small company that develops medical devices Second job (volunteer): Bellefonte YMCA Swim Team Parent Boost Club Treasurer Best skill: Listening to people Last thing she does every night: Reads to her 7- and 10-year-old children until “one of us falls asleep” If you’re a fan of the reality TV show Shark Tank, you tune in to watch aspiring entrepreneurs present their ideas and try to get one of the investors to help develop and market the products. Afterward, you might start to think about what you could invent. Maureen L. Mulvihill has never watched the show, but she lives it every day. She is co-founder, president and CEO of Actuated Medical, Inc. (AMI), a Pennsylvania-based company that develops specialized medical devices. The devices include a system for unclogging feeding tubes, motors that assist MRI-related procedures and needles that gently draw blood. AMI’s products rely on the same motion-control technologies that allow a quartz watch to keep time, a microphone to project sound and even a telescope to focus on a distant object in a sky. In general, the devices are portable, affordable and unobtrusive, making them appealing to doctors and patients. Mulvihill, who’s trained in an area of engineering called materials science, says, “I’m really focused on how to translate technologies into ways that help people.” This is wh...
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