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    José Acosta

    Former Command Surgeon
    US Pacific Fleet
    José Acosta is a trauma surgeon who served in the Navy for 30 years, transitioning from direct patient care to leadership roles, including Command Surgeon for the US Pacific Fleet. He has 40 years of experience since graduating medical school and is an early technology adopter. He advocates for comprehensive AI literacy in healthcare.

    About José's appearance on the show

    José Acosta, Former Command Surgeon at US Pacific Fleet, joined The Med Device Cyber Podcast to share field-tested perspective with our audience of medical device security engineers, regulatory leads, quality teams, and MedTech founders. Every guest we book has either personally led an FDA cybersecurity submission, shipped a connected device into clinical use, or worked the disclosure and remediation side of a real-world vulnerability - we don't run vendor pitches or keynote-style overviews.

    The Med Device Cyber Podcast is produced by Blue Goat Cyber, a specialist medical device cybersecurity firm whose hosts have walked submissions through FDA, ISO 14971 risk management, IEC 62304 software lifecycle expectations, and SBOM hygiene under the Refuse-to-Accept policy. The show exists so the lessons learned by people doing this work daily - guests like José - reach the next team that has to figure it out for the first time. If you're researching José Acosta for a hiring decision, an advisory call, or to invite them onto your own programme, the episodes below are the most current public record of how they think about the problem.

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    • José Acosta is Former Command Surgeon at US Pacific Fleet. José Acosta is a trauma surgeon who served in the Navy for 30 years, transitioning from direct patient care to leadership roles, including Command Surgeon for the US Pacific Fleet. He has 40 years of experience since graduating medical school and is an early technology adopter.

    • José Acosta appears on 1 episode of The Med Device Cyber Podcast: Episode 61 - "Why AI Literacy Matters for the Future of Healthcare with José Acosta | Ep. 43".

    • Across José's appearances, recurring topics include ai in healthcare, large language models, ai literacy, medical device cybersecurity, and patient safety. These conversations focus on practical medical device cybersecurity guidance for MedTech teams.

    • AI literacy is crucial for healthcare professionals and extends beyond simple prompting to include a deep understanding of the technology's mechanics, limitations, and ethical implications.

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