Steven Opolski is an Affiliate Consultant with CardioMed Device Consultants with almost 30 years of medical device industry experience. He specializes in the design and computer modeling of medical devices, including stents, heart valves, abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) devices, vena cava filters, and structural heart repair devices.
Experience
Mr. Opolski began his career at small and large medical device companies as an individual contributor specializing in finite element analysis (FEA). He later became engineering manager of an implant group responsible for all preclinical testing of implantable stents.
In 2003 he founded Atlantic Engineering, which works with device companies worldwide from early design through full engineering evaluations for regulatory submissions. Alongside structural FEA, the firm tests wire and tubing in air or in solution to determine the fatigue limits of materials, complementing its modeling work.
Mr. Opolski is also available for device design and holds 17 U.S. patents. He serves as an expert witness in patent infringement, product liability, and medical malpractice cases.