Michael Ostrovsky

Design Challenge: Medgadget Editor Talks Medical Innovations

By AmyT on March 31, 2010

Russian-born Michael Ostrovsky is a board certified anesthesiologist, practicing cardiac anesthesia here in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s one of the few MDs who’s not only extremely web-savvy, but is actually part of the Health 2.0 and Social Media movement as co-founder of Medgadget.com, sort of the “Engadget” of the medical technology world. Lucky for us, he’s also a fixture in the DiabetesMine Design Challenge competition.
Want to know what’s new with medical innovations?…

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Medgadget Editor Loves Consumer-Designed Devices

By AmyT on April 23, 2009

Medgadget.com is essentially the “Engadget of the medical world,” if that tells you anything. The site bills itself as the “internet journal of emerging medical technologies.”  Four of its six editors are practicing MDs.  I’ve been privileged to know executive editor Michael Ostrovsky for several years. He’s a busy anesthesiologist with two small children who still manages to do all that daily work on the Medgadget site.
He’s been a big supporter of the DiabetesMine Design Challenge…

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