Discover the Prevailing Medical Team
MEET OUR TEAM
Passionate Team of Dedicated Leaders
We’re a team that enjoys our work and does it well. We’re all leaders, and we’re always learning. We’re personally invested in our craft, our team, our clients, and our community.
Careers
Prevailing Medical is a fast growing company and frequently seeking talent. We currently have no open positions, but highly encourage future applicants to send us your resume and info so we can contact you right away if an opportunity arises.
Meet Our Team
Joseph Duerr
President Co-Founder
Joe brings 25 years experience as an engineer in the Medical Device market. Joe has a thorough understanding of devices and specializes in assigning and managing the development and manufacture of some of the most difficult, minimally invasive devices. These have included diagnostic catheters, electrophysiology catheters, radio-frequency catheters, balloon catheters, steerable devices and shafts, stimulation leads, supporting procedural devices and more. Joe provides Prevailing Medical's customers experience and skills including Blow & Injection Molding, CAD Design, Automation, Prototyping, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Basic Electricity, Structure & Strengths, Steel to Plastic Conversions, Thermal Set and Transfer Molding, catheter development, device development, reflow, tipping, braiding, extrusion, bonding and welding. Joe looks forward to bringing this experience to Prevailing Medicals customers.
Khader Mohiuddin
Khader joins Prevailing Concepts having been in the Medical Device Industry since 1990 as an R&D engineer working with new product development and manufacturing continuous improvement. A graduate of IIT Chicago with a masters in mechanical engineering, he has worked with multiple projects including thrombus extraction devices, TAVI delivery systems, valvuloplasty catheters, angiographic catheters, contrast media disposables and introducers. Khader also has extensive experience with nitinol and stainless steel braided shaft based devices. Khaders skills and experience will be utilized to help Prevailing Concepts customers effectively develop their medical devices
VP New Product Design Co-Founder
Kris Bauerschmidt
Kris joins Prevailing Concepts with 10 years sales and customer service experience with minimally invasive interventional medical devices. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, he has worked with customers to bring devices including valve delivery systems, atherectomy catheters, thrombectomy catheters and vascular catheters to market. Kris enjoys discussing projects and helping customers navigate the development process.
Sales & Marketing
Mindy Duerr
Mindy joins Prevailing Concepts Inc. with 25 years experience working in a small, startup company that grew steadily from less than $1M in sales to $5M. She took on a variety of roles including: accounts receivables/payables, database and website design & maintenance, purchasing, customer service and office management. She enjoys the variety and challenges that come with a growing business and is excited to be a part of the Prevailing Concepts team.
Office Manager
More Prevailing Medical Team Members
Joe Tachera | Director of Operations | 10 years experience
Ryan Gallmeier | Director of extrusions and Plastics | 20 years experience
Choose Prevailing Medical for Your Medical Device Engineering Needs
Our dedicated team of experts is ready to collaborate with you, turning your innovative ideas into reality. We monitor the workload of our team closely to ensure our clients get the support they are paying for.