Aidan Petrie to speak at NEC in Providence Feb. 21 at noon

Nurses are at the front lines of health care and are key to improving patient care through transformation of health care systems. The need for user-centered innovation is paramount and nurses are in an ideal position to identify the need for novel solutions, to generate creative ideas to solve the problems, and to work with interdisciplinary teams to execute the solutions.

Nurses’ roles in creating innovation of the future will be explored in a presentation by Aidan Petrie, co-founder and chief innovation officer of medical design firm Ximedica, LLC, and an adjunct professor of industrial design at the Rhode Island School of Design, Wednesday February 21, noon-1 p.m. at the Rhode Island Nursing Education Center in Providence. The presentation will be held in the NEC auditorium, room 308, and will be live-streamed to White Hall on the URI Kingston campus. The RINEC is located at 350 Eddy St., Providence.

In addition to his roles with Ximedica and RISD, Petrie is co-founder and managing partner of healthcare innovation firm NEMIC. With a focus on human-centered design, usability, technical innovation and industrial design, Petrie has helped bring hundreds of products to market, from simple drug compliance aids to wearable therapeutics, home monitoring products and complex surgical systems, the projects he leads challenge his team to rethink the role that design plays in the success of each product.