About

Lorenzo Vaccarella, Director of New Product Development, is a passionate, innovative and strategic engineering leader with over 25 years of experience within the medical device, medical capital equipment and medical interconnect assemblies industries. He has a proven track record of excellence in fast-paced and multidisciplinary environments, building productive customer relationships and translating customers’ needs into quality products. Mr Vaccarella has held both engineering individual contributor and leadership roles within three divisions of Johnson & Johnson (DePuy Orthopaedics, DePuy Spine and Codman & Schurtleff), two Medtronic divisions (Advanced Energy and Minimally Invasive Therapies Group), Echo Therapeutics, Waters Corporation and Amphenol Alden. Mr Vaccarella holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University (MA, US) and an MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix (AZ, US).

Contributions

INDUSTRIALISATION

FUTURE-PROOFING YOUR DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE: CONSIDERATIONS FOR EFFECTIVE DESIGN

Lorenzo Vaccarella highlights six critical areas to consider early in the drug delivery device development journey. He discusses how strategically investing time during the early stages of the design cycle and throughout development can ultimately save both time and cost down the road when the product is being manufactured and deployed into the market.