Where it all started in Oulu and Minneapolis My academic work was based on the paradigm of the innovative clinic: Needs are identified in...

My research teams - I am indebted to over 100 coworkers, and the best way to thank them all is through recognition of the doctoral works...

Working for years with engineers, my final academic medtech project: a surgical robot that could operate in our intraoperative MRI suite,...

Ultrasound, navigation and MRI were next combined in a surgical MRI suite at Oulu University Hospital in my quest for surgical image of...

22 years ago, a local technical college had acquired a printer system based on laser solidification of epoxy fluid to produce a 3D model...

To understand the Innovative Clinic Model and my place in medtech, study the American moon program to find my time-tested paradigm of...

M.Curie was once asked why she studied radium. She answered: "Because the bibliography is so short." Our early work in navigation was...

As intraoperative ultrasound imaging together with MRI and navigation are continually being improved. please let me share with you how I...

We benchmark Medtronic and medtech lessons for founders on grit, in Finnish “sisu” and “sitko." Bakken called it the “Medtronic Mission."

Birkmann Clinic was established in 2017 based on over 30 years of work as an academic specialist in Finland and the United States....