Advisory Board
The Navi Advisory Panel has extensive experience in commercialising medical devices, including pediatric devices
Elpis Barons
BSci (Immunology and Biochemistry) Monash University
Elpis is a commerical and business strategy advisor at Navi. She provides guidance on commercial and clinical activities as well as regulatory and reimbursement advice. Elpis has experience providing clinical research consulting services to international medical technology organisations, device manufacturers and suppliers. She has overseen human clinical trials and studies for medical device start-ups and has experience commercialising pediatric medical devices.
Professor David Grayden
BEng (Electrical & Electronic) UoM, PhD (Electrical & Electronic) UoM
Prof. Grayden is a technical advisor at Navi and provides guidance on core technical, research and clinical activities. David is the Head of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Melbourne and has over 25 years of experience in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering. He has extensive knowledge and research expertise in a range of areas including computational neuroscience, epilepsy, and bionics and has contributed to the commercialisation of noteable Australian medical devices such as the cochlear ear impant and stentrode brain implantable machine interface.
Stephanie Pitts
BScience (Nursing) University of South Florida, MScience (Nursing) University of Phoenix
Stephanie is a clinical and marketing advisor at Navi. She is Global Director for Clinical Marketing at Angiodynamics, a US based medical device manufacturing company. She is also Director of the Association for Vascular Access (AVA) and a registered pediatric nurse. In 2017 Stephanie was awarded the title of Janet Pettit Scholar for outstanding contributions to the field of ‘Neonatal & Pediatric Vascular Access’, has been instrumental in leading the publication of best practice guidelines in pediatric central catheter placement, and has experience in ECG tip location devices.
Associate Professor Andreas Plaumer
Doctor of Medicine LMU Munich
A/Prof Plaumer is a clinical advisor at Navi and provides guidance on clinical, research, and engineering activities. Andreas is a Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist with a sub-specialty interest in electrophysiology. In 2009, he moved to Melbourne for a full time appointment with The Royal Children’s Hospital to build up invasive electrophysiology and is now the Clinical Lead for Interventional Electrophysiology. His research interests include invasive and non-invasive electrophysiology, 3D mapping systems and remote magnetic navigation, and quality improvement in ablation therapy.