Product Design: Key Considerations with Brian Culp, MD, Emily Ast, Esq., and Marney Reid

Join Emily Ast Esq., Brian Culp, MD, and Marney Reid as they share the various ways a physician would get asked to be on a MedTech design team. We review the best practices on protecting your intellectual property if it’s your idea you’re bringing to them, the reasonable non-competes based on the work you’re doing with the company, and when and how to give when you’re building a relationship that you want to last with a company and product you believe in.  

Emily Ast, Esq.

CEO and founder of Ast Physician Contracts

Emily Ast, Esq. owns and practices law at Ast Physician Contracts, which focuses exclusively on contract review and negotiation for physicians and those in the medical field. 

Emily specializes in employment, consulting, product development and related agreements, with a focus on surgical specialties, and represents clients nationwide in contract negotiations with employers and industry. She is a nationally recognized speaker and has been an invited lecturer for organizations such as AAHKS, Eastern Orthopaedic Association, the Foundation for Physician Advancement and the Women in Medicine Society.

Emily is passionate about guiding physicians through the negotiation process with respect to employment and consulting with industry. She provides physicians with the tools to advance their careers through her company’s Membership Program, which provides individuals, residency and fellowship programs and medical societies with dynamic video lectures and written guides on contract negotiation in both the employment and industry setting, interview preparation, asset protection and intellectual property, compensation analysis and more. 

Her Insider Membership also comes with quarterly virtual office hours, where members can drop in and ask questions as they navigate their careers.

Emily has represented hundreds of physicians and healthcare executives and knows the items and priorities that physician care about, and the potential pitfalls and mistakes commonly made.  Emily also has a unique understanding of the business side of medicine, being married to an Orthopaedic surgeon and seeing all stages of his career from medical school, residency and fellowship, private practice, changing jobs to a large academic medical center, as well as forming industry consulting relationships. 

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