Dr. Maureen L. Mulvihill '89, '91, & '96 has big plans for a very small product.

Mulvihill is the president of the Benner Township company formerly known as Piezo Resonance Innovations, which has been reborn in September as Actuated Medical Inc.

The company has spent the past three years developing a device that clears medical feeding tubes within three minutes without removing the tube from the patient.

“We’re very high on this product,” Mulvihill said.

Approval from the FDA for five related devices is expected by the end of September. If and when that happens, subsidiary Tube Clear Inc. has been spun out of Actuated Medical’s headquarters on Rolling Ridge Drive and will function as its marketer and distributor.

If the product’s popularity takes off the way she expects it to, Mulvihill said she expects employment at the firm to go from its current 14 employees to 150 by 2014. Mulvihill said she’s already begun looking at either moving into a larger facility or building a new one to accommodate such enormous growth.

Read the full story in the Centre Daily Times: http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/07/2903591/feeding-tube-device-to-ful...

The Centre Daily Times
By Cliff White — cwhite@centredaily.com
Published September 7, 2011