Hi buzzar, THIS IS your first post on HC. Your comment,"If you...

Hi buzzar, THIS IS your first post on HC.
Your comment,
"If you in any way think Woodard invented the Ventrassist think again, not only did he not invent it, all he has ever done was to swan around the world talking about it at conferences"

ARE you in a position where you can state this?

OR is it just a comment that we can all forget about because you know nothing??

I was under the assumption that

"The VentrAssist was developed by the Faculty of Engineering at University of Technology, Sydney and MicroMedical Industries (later known as Ventracor) over the period 1997-1999. A large team of biomedical experts developed the device based on an original invention by John Woodard (MicroMedical), Peter Watterson (UTS) and Geoffrey Tansley (UTS/MicroMedical). Initial funding for the VentrAssist was received from AusIndustry as an R&D Start Grant. Animal trials were undertaken from 2000 to 2002, and the first human implant was made in June 2003 at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. Extensive clinical trials were undertaken, initially in Australia and later in Europe and the USA. Market approval was received in Europe in 2006 and Australia in 2007, and trials continued in the US in 2008.'