Delphinus Medical Technologies Hires New VP of Engineering

Delphinus Medical Technologies Inc. has added a new member to its C-Suite, welcoming Rama Gundlapalli as vice president of Engineering.

Gundlapalli brings to his new position more than 30 years of product development and engineering experience, having worked in startup, small, and fortune 500 companies, and applying knowledge in research and development to build out successful commercial product pipelines.
 
“Rama’s experience in commercial development and helping to build numerous successful product pipelines will serve Delphinus well as we advance our SoftVue technology,” Delphinus Medical President/CEO Scott White said. “We continue to grow our team with industry leaders and I’m excited to have Rama’s experience in delivering successful products to market. Rama’s background in clinical imaging specific to hardware and software platforms will certainly expedite the adoption of the SoftVue into the breast healthcare market.”
 
Gundlapalli most recently worked as a senior director of research collaborations at Siemens Healthineers. He supervised the Advanced Therapies U.S./Canada collaboration team with a focus on driving leadership transformation and executing innovation and product development strategies across interventional neurology, pulmonology, cardiology, liver cancer, and skeletal diseases. Before Siemens Healthineers, Gundlapalli worked at Northgate Technologies Inc. helping to develop and commercialize laparoscopic insufflators and lithotripsy systems; CareFusion (acquired by BD); and DePuy Synthes (J&J MedTech), leading the development and launch of DePuy’s high-flex total knee systems. In addition, Gundlapalli has nurtured his entrepreneurial side with three startups of his own.
 
“I’m excited to be part of Delphinus Medical Technologies and support our mission. The team is dedicated and passionate about making SoftVue the market-leading solution for early detection of breast cancer in women with dense breasts,” Gundlapalli stated. “Like many, my family has a history of breast cancer, and it is my goal to support bringing SoftVue to healthcare providers across the country in order to help save lives.”
 
SoftVue is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as an adjunct to mammography for screening women with dense breasts. At least 40% of U.S. women have dense breasts, and compounding the increased risk, dense breast tissue like cancer, typically appears white on a mammogram, making it more challenging to detect cancer early. When paired with mammography, SoftVue has been shown to identify up to 20% more cancers, while also reducing false positives and decreasing unnecessary call-backs and biopsies in women with dense breasts.
 
Headquartered in Novi, Mich., Delphinus Medical Technologies is a medical imaging company that developed SoftVue, featuring the first circular array transducer technology. The patented technology is a 3D whole-breast ultrasound tomography system that delivers no radiation, requires no compression, and images the entire breast with a single scan.