Walt Cecka
Medical Technologies Fellow
Walt Cecka has over 35 years of experience in translational medicine design and development of first-to-market complex medical devices and combination products. Walt has held senior leadership product development positions at Nektar Therapeutics (inhaled insulin and anti-infective delivery systems), Bio-Molecular Technologies (protein processing instrumentation), Baxter (LVAD technology), Cholestech (POC lipid panels), and Nellcor (In-line capnography and fetal oximeters).
As a medical technology fellow with over 15 years at Triple Ring, Walt primarily collaborates with our entrepreneurial clients to evolve their novel ideas into concept and product development programs that offer significant patient care benefits across a broad range of clinical applications and technologies.
Walt has co-authored several peer-reviewed posters, has articles published in trade association magazines and newsletters, and has international patents in respiratory care and pulmonary drug delivery. He is a serial mentor with engagements at accelerators including California Life Sciences and MedTech Innovators, and guest lectures for the UCSF/UC Berkeley Masters in Translational Medicine program (MTM). Walt holds a BSME from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
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