Michelle Tierney

Co-Founder @SymphysisMed

[RTÉ Sport @RTEsport]

Ireland’s Sophie Becker, Rhasidat Adeleke, Phil Healy and Sharlene Mawdsley are a mix of exaltation and exhaustion after their superb second place in the women's 4x400m relay final at the European Championships.

[MedTech Strategist | MedTech's Most Trusted Source @MedTechStrat]

Now presenting at #InnovationDublin24 is @SymphysisMed with Co-founder & CEO Tim Jones.

The mission at SymPhysis Medical is to enhance the #PalliativeCare pathway to provide unrivalled patient independence and reduce hospitalisations for people with life-limiting cancers.

[SymPhysis Medical @SymphysisMed]

🌱 Growth doesn't happen by chance; it's the result of dedicated forces coming together. 🤝

SymPhysis are growing our team and are looking for a Senior Quality and Design Assurance Engineer 🚀

See LinkedIn post for details:
https://t.co/RRnsjyXe76

#MedTech #Healthcare #Galway

[HSE Ireland @HSELive]

Today, we remember Laura Brennan on what would have been her 31st birthday. Laura campaigned for people to get the #HPVvaccine that can protect them from HPV. Follow the final chapters in her life in this documentary on the @RTEplayer: https://t.co/3VWjl5bB4e

#ThankYouLaura

[Michelle Tierney @michell_tierney]

@121coach Also a Clare thing, usually said when someone is either really annoyed or when a story seems unbelieveable (the tone makes the difference!!)

[BioInnovate Ireland @BioInnovate_Ire]

'Don’t leave the biodesign approach behind you', 'it’s a privilege & great craic, so definitely go for it!

#BioInnovate23 Symposium Highlights: wise words for graduating Fellows from alumni @michell_tierney, @SymphysisMed; Kevin Kelleher, @Ostoform; & @C_Harkin, @proverummedical

[Life Sciences Industry Awards @LifeSciencesIRL]

Congratulations to releaze - @SymphysisMed on winning the Innovation of the Year award! #LifeSciencesIRL Sponsored by @hgf_ip

[SymPhysis Medical @SymphysisMed]

🌟Exciting Opportunity in MedTech! Join SymPhysis Medical as an R&D Engineer 🏥💡
Join us in our mission to enhance the lives of late-stage cancer patients through cutting-edge technology.
Link for details: https://t.co/SfDFwIYGdD
#MedTech #Healthcare #Engineer #StartUp #Galway

[BioInnovate Ireland @BioInnovate_Ire]

#BioInnovate23 Panel 1 Alumni @michell_tierney @SymphysisMed, Kevin Kelleher, @Ostoform and @C_Harkin, @proverummedical join @jonathan_mccrea to talk about their experience as MedTech founders since they finished the BioInnovate Ireland Fellowship Programme.

[BioInnovate Ireland @BioInnovate_Ire]

. @michell_tierney speaks about how important the clinical champion they had in the Fellowship Programme was in @SymphysisMed's journey.
#BioInnovate23

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In 1985, Nike held a 24-hour shoe design contest.

Nike was struggling. Their stock dropped 50%. They had to lay off people. Adidas, Converse, & Reebok were all selling more shoes.

So in a panicked attempt to find creative talent, Nike held a shoe design contest.

The winner was

A corporate architect named Tinker Hatfield.

"Two days after the competition," he said, "I wasn't even asked—I was told that I was now a footwear designer for Nike."

As he got to work on his first official shoe design, he thought about a building he had studied in architecture school: The Centre Pompidou in Paris.

The Centre Pompidou is an inside-out building, meaning that the structural, mechanical, and circulation systems are all exposed.

“That building,” Tinker said, “was describing what it was to the people of Paris. And I thought, ‘Well why not do that with a shoe? Let’s cut a hole in the side and show what’s in the shoe.’”

So Tinker designed an inside-out shoe:

The Air Max 1.

The Air Max 1 was a massive success, and it steered Nike's design direction from then on.

"To this day," Tinker says, "Phil Knight says I saved Nike."

Takeaway 1:

Had he not studied that building in Paris, Tinker says, he couldn’t have created the Air Max.

Creativity, he says, is a function of the “library in your head."

“When you sit down to create something...what you create is a culmination of everything you’ve seen and done previous to that point.”

Takeaway 2:

Tinker Hatfield went to architecture school and then he was a corporate architect for 4.5 years. Then, literally overnight, he became one of the best shoe designers in the world.

This makes me think of a counter-intuitive discovery made by psychologist Charles Spearman in 1904.

Before Spearman, the natural assumption was that the more you specialize in one thing, the worse you’ll be at other things.

Instead, Spearman discovered "the positive manifold" phenomenon.

He found that different abilities tend to be positively correlated. That the expertise gained through specialization is transferrable. That the cognitive and creative abilities cultivated as an architect could positively correlate with being a shoe designer.

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"Creativity is a function of the previous work you put in."  — Robert Greene

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[Michelle Tierney @michell_tierney]

Great to hear John Kilmartin at the #FutureTrials conference highlighting the opportunities to encourage more clinical research to be performed in Ireland by small medtech companies
#medtech #research

[Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway @uniofgalway]

We're excited to welcome 150 researchers, students & industry stakeholders from across the #ENLIGHT network to @UniofGalway. We're discussing digital innovations in health & wellbeing, fostering new research collaborations, and addressing societal challenges. #AIMday @enlight_eu

[Enlight-EU @enlight_eu]

A hundred thousand welcomes to Galway from the @unigalway president Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh: "As universities we are learning institutions, we will be learning today by working together on shared issues." #digitalhealth #europeandialogue #europeanuniversities

[SymPhysis Medical @SymphysisMed]

Looking forward to ENLIGHT European Dialogue organised by @uniofgalway & @UU_University. The Founders of @SymphysisMed will discuss their efforts to develop a first-of-its-kind remote monitoring platform within the palliative care space with expert researchers.
#europeandialogue

[SymPhysis Medical @SymphysisMed]

#TeamSymPhysis supporting their Biomedical Engineering researchers during their recent poster presentation at @ATU_ResearchIE @GMITihubs . Being able support #talent development is important to us and ensures we continue to foster an #innovative environment.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Watch Covid come in at the end and absolutely destroy medical literature for a generation

[Emma Clayton @Brilliant_Teams]

Leadership lessons from farmers 🚜

Stop shouting at and mistreating the crops. Its pointless!

Instead nurture, fertilise and irrigate them.

Throwing 💩 on them just won’t work!

[Dublin Airport @DublinAirport]

Last chance to win return flights for two to Chicago, with thanks to @united ✈️🇺🇸

🚨Winner will be selected today🚨

To enter: FOLLOW & RETWEET

Info: https://t.co/RzKcz2preS

Good Luck 🤞

[TORPEY ® @torpey___]

💼 WE ARE HIRING 💼

We’re #hiring for a Retail Sales & Admin Assistant here at TORPEY. If you’ve a drive for success & a passion for #Sports, then we would love to hear from you!

Check out the link below for full job spec & application details
https://t.co/2AWwtXbcdF

#jobfairy