About
About ProtoMed
ProtoMed Medical Device Design is owned by Róisín Nolan, medical device designer and mechanical engineer. The ProtoMed mission is to deliver innovative, user/patient-centred medical device design solutions, product concepts, design and development using SolidWorks 3D CAD. In order to achieve these goals, Róisín uses her 20 years of professional experience in medical devices manufacturing and R&D, along with an extensive skill set including accredited qualifications in medical device design, mechanical engineering and Solidworks 3D CAD.
ProtoMed is based in Galway, Ireland.
ProtoMed has provided design support for medical device development, delivering next-generation medical device solutions.
Collaborations include NUI Galway, CÚRAM SFI Research Centre for Medical Devices, RCSI Dublin, as well as BioInnovate spin-out industry-disruptor start-ups AVeta Medical, SiSion Medical and FeelTect.
Why ProtoMed?
Realise an idea.
Expertise built on 20 years medical devices industry experience
At ProtoMed we bring industry experience from various roles across multiple multinational companies and faculties at the cutting edge of medical device research and development, advanced operations, design transfer, packaging, engineering, project management, manufacturing and quality.
DePuy Synthes
(Orthopaedics company
at Johnson & Johnson
Project Engineer
1997–2007
Boston Scientific
R&D Engineer II
Structural Heart
2017–2018
NUI Galway
School of Medicine (Anatomy)
Medical Device Designer
2020
Stryker Orthopaedics
Senior Launch Engineer
2007–2015
Qualified by internationally recognised faculties in design and engineering.
At ProtoMed, Róisín holds qualifications from Ireland’s top design and engineering schools, as well as certification in Solidworks 3D CAD.
NCAD Dublin
MSc. Medical Device Design
2016
Trinity College, Dublin/
TU Dublin Bolton Street
BSc. Mechanical Engineering
1988
GRETB Galway
City & Guilds Solidworks CAD/CNC Milling and Turning
2020
ProtoMed brings an innovative approach to patient-centred medical device design
ProtoMed is driven by curiosity, creativity, collaboration, imagination and innovation. To drive future design for manufacture DFM and assembly DFA, ProtoMed uses design thinking methodology, team collaboration with the clinician/user/patient, ideation, connecting disparate ideas, strives to maximise design, problem-solving, solution-oriented, continuously learning, taking lessons from the past as inputs to design and develop next iterations. ProtoMed has the passion to improve patients quality of life, to make people's lives better, to meet patient and clinical needs, to deliver ingenious and simple designs for medical device development.
Featured Work (Hap Nav) on RTE’s ‘Changemakers’
In 2022, ProtoMed’s work was featured in RTÉ production “Changemakers”.
The Hap Nav wearable device is a mobility aid for people with impaired vision using haptic feedback (touch). Designed and developed in collaboration with Professor Derek O’Keeffe, NUI Galway HIVE Lab,
Diabetes Care West, Sinéad Hanrahan, Róisín Nolan, ProtoMed Medical Device Design, Ian Mellor, IMME Design, and Mouzzam Husain, NUIG Jedi Glove. Video 6 minutes 46 seconds.
Credits: RTÉ and New Decade TV