Speaker Bio:

Richard completed his education in Biomedical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He is the (co)author of 14 articles published in international, peer-reviewed journals, stemming from both his MSc thesis, which analyzed the effects of physical activity status on human skeletal muscle tissue characteristics, and his PhD, where he continued this research by expanding the focus to different models of insulin resistance in both pre-clinical and clinical studies. Upon completion of his PhD, Richard began working as a Clinical Research Specialist for the Endovascular Therapies division of Medtronic Bakken Research Center in Maastricht, the Netherlands (NLD). In 2013, he moved to Medtronic Canada, where he was the Medical Science Advisor in the Diabetes division, and now holds a position as Market Access & Reimbursement Program Manager in Canada.