To build a community of design, engineering and manufacturing companies to facilitate and service the commercialization of medical devices in the Houston Gulf Coast region.
Membership Committee - This committee is responsible for attracting and serving our membership. If you have any questions or need support regarding membership, please contact Tom Kraft with the Houston Technology Center.
Education Committee - This committee is responsible for educations services related to the Gulf Coast Medical Device Manufacturers. This committee presents the Medical Device 101 course and other informative speakers related to the commercialization of medical devices. The education committee chairperson is Paul Lewis of Synergos Inc.
Marketing Committee - This committee is responsible for promoting the capabilities and services of the member companies to the life science organizations and gulf coast business community. This committee is chaired by Patrick White of LSI Graphics Solutions Plus.
The Gulf Coast Medical Device Manufacturers (GCMDM) is a professional organization formed to facilitate the commercialization of Medical Device Technology and to foster a community of manufacturing and manufacturing-related companies for the benefit of the public. It is classed as a “Business League” by the Internal Revenue Service.
In carrying out its objectives, it is GCMDM’s firm and resolute policy, to which no exception is made, that all GCMDM activities shall be conducted in strict conformity with applicable laws. GCMDM will not condone any violation of its policy in this regard, and any member or employee who violates such policy will be subject to expulsion or discharge from the GCMDM.
1. Antitrust
(a) No GCMDM activity shall be used as a means for effecting an understanding or agreement of any kind among competitors or potential competitors with regard to such competitors' prices, terms and conditions of sale or purchase, marketing, distribution, production, consumption, market territories, or customers.
(b) No effort will be made by any GCMDM body or member on behalf of GCMDM to collect information from or disseminate information to GCMDM members concerning prices, terms and conditions of sale or purchase, marketing, distribution, production, consumption, market territories, or customers, without prior clearance from the GCMDM Board of Directors.
(c) No GCMDM activity shall be used as a means for effecting or discussing any understanding or agreement, written or oral, formal or informal, expressed or implied, to boycott or to exclude from competition any person, company, or other legal entity.
(d) No person shall be unreasonably excluded from participating in GCMDM activities. Efforts will be made to ensure that interested persons will have access to GCMDM activities.
3. Fairness
GCMDM treats all its members in a fair and equitable manner. All activities of GCMDM are to be conducted fairly, responsibly, and in good faith, and with the intent, purpose, and effect of furthering the above stated purposes and goals of the GCMDM without favor to one member over another.
Any person having any questions or concerns regarding the propriety of any activity being conducted by or on behalf of GCMDM in light of this policy is encouraged to contact the GCMDM Executive Director. It is the intent and policy of GCMDM to encourage such inquiries so that compliance to this policy may be ensured.
4. Political Influence
The GCMDM Board of Directors, as the policy-making and governing body of the GCMDM, has endorsed participation by GCMDM members and committees in programs that seek to enhance the knowledge of medical devices and the resources available to manufacture such devices. However, caution should be exercised by GCMDM members participating in these programs that no impression of attempting to influence legislation exists.
