
Dima Elissa
Founder / CEO
VisMed•3D
Chicago, IL USA
“You can follow traditional routes and you’ll get traditional responses. Or, you can be bold, brave, and brilliant. You determine your own destiny.”
VisMed•3D
Chicago, IL USA
“You can follow traditional routes and you’ll get traditional responses. Or, you can be bold, brave, and brilliant. You determine your own destiny.”
Founder / CEO
We design and 3D print medical devices, body parts, and innovative instruments for healthcare.
As a founder and CEO, I spend my days negotiating mergers, directing and driving operations and profitability, and looking for new startups to partner with or help launch. I oversee the team as we design and create innovative instruments for healthcare. I use patient MRI and CT data to convert files for surgeons to use as guides and aids for pre-surgical assistance. In addition to this, I devote a lot of my energy to giving guidance to women founders and entrepreneurs in technology.
Here's the first step for high school students
Being a woman in technology is not easy. It is sometimes a very difficult industry to navigate. At the end of the day, my clients don't care if I'm a man or a woman, they care if I do good work. Value is what matters. Always think about what you are doing or could be doing to increase your value to your audience.
"Why don't you just become a cardiovascular surgeon like your father?"
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