Nurturing your Clinical Innovation with AUSCEP

The MTPConnect Podcast

In a special series dedicated to the Australian Clinical Entrepreneur Program (AUSCEP) we introduce you to some of the passionate health professionals taking part in this 12-month program to develop their innovative ideas into products and enterprises.

Elleesha King is a registered nurse and ambulance paramedic, and founder of Pulsatile Innovations, a start-up developing a medical device called Pulse Tile™ to reduce delays to CPR and defibrillation. She takes us on the journey of turning her idea into reality and explains how taking part in AUSCEP and meeting like-minded entrepreneurs has paid off in spades. www.thepulsetile.com

The program’s third cohort has been delivered in NSW and Victoria, in partnership with MTPConnect and Australian Society for Medical Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ASME), and supported by LaunchVic and NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI). The next 2025/26 cohort is open for Victorian applications until 20 June 2025 – apply at auscep.au

This episode is hosted by MTPConnect’s Caroline Duell and Elizabeth Stares.

Chapters

1. Introduction to Australian Clinical Entrepreneur Program (00:00:00)

2. Introducing Pulsatile Innovations (00:01:16)

3. How the device works (00:02:36)

4. Journey from idea to prototype (00:04:52)

5. Benefits of the AUSCEP program (00:08:15)

6. Highlights of AUSCEP (00:11:24)

7. Message to those considering apply to AUSCEP (00:12:39)

8. Future plans and connecting with Alicia (00:13:34)