“He was an active leader and advocate for the profession, writing articles, rebutting criticisms, and strongly representing the best in our profession - always with dignity and grace,” wrote the ACCE Board of Directors.

I began my career in medical devices straight out of college while working on a master’s degree at night. US Surgical was growing—and hiring—right in my hometown in Connecticut at the time. They offered real opportunity to grow with the company and to try new and different things. Since then, I’ve worked for a number of other industry-leading companies in seven different locations, and currently I am with Medtronic. Almost 40 years later, I haven’t regretted the decision to focus my career on the device industry for one minute!

Memory, and our ability to create new memories, is often due to the rhythms of the brain, Rizzuto said. “There’s endogenous variability in how the brain operates in its ability to encode memories,” he said. Through extensive training between a patient and the Nia devic