Company History
QMEDICS is a young Swiss-based medical device manufacturer founded in 2008. Our long year experience in the medical device industry has made us very flexible and highly capable of finding the optimum solution for every customer specific needs.
Ever since our foundation, we have been based in North-East of Switzerland, a region famous for technical innovations, with an international character and a sense of global trading. At the beginning of QMEDICS’ existence, QMEDICS offered contract R&D, manufacturing as well as OEM manufacturing for medical devices. As OEM manufacturer we developed, produced and supplied a workhorse of a Nitinol stent QM1 with the matching balloon catheter. This was the pride of the company and became the base of the new product portfolio of today.
In 2017 QMEDICS became an independent company with the opportunity to be legal manufacturer of our own new product portfolio and to do direct sales.
Since the know-how, engineers and production of this design are still at QMEDICS we could improve and expand our product portfolio within a minimum of time. Today the total facility has an area of over 2800m2 of production space, storage areas and offices, including two clean rooms with a total surface of 1200m2. The facility houses sophisticated machinery, EtO-sterilization as well as packaging and labelling equipment. Finally, dedicated, motivated and highly experienced employees.
Culture & Values
Even the best strategy can’t succeed unless it’s supported by a strong company spirit. That’s why we at QMEDICS live and foster an Ownership Culture – a culture that encourages every individual in our company to give his or her best in his or her position to help build QMEDICS’ longterm successes.
Our Vision
At QMEDICS we work hard every day to make sure that our guiding principle “striving for excellence every day and constantly seeking to improve the services we offer” is reflected in everything we do.
QMEDICS as a provider of special patient-care products within the medical device industry, we offer global solutions to improve the quality of life.
As a medical device company, we embrace the changing healthcare environment and seek to identify and explore opportunities as they emerge. With the best patient care always in mind, we insist on the utmost in quality of products, character of employees and relationships with customers and colleagues. We commit to strengthen our position in the market and being a financially viable company through innovation and continuous improvement.
Our Mission
Understanding your business is our business
Our goal is to design, develop, manufacture, and sell state-of-the-art medical products that will improve the lives of patients around the world.
Partnership instead of competition
We manufacture state-of-the-art products, environmentally-friendly and can flexibly adjust our production capacities to your order situation.
Sharing Expertise is our mission and a promise to customers and colleagues to share medical knowledge and expertise for the benefit of patients health.
Our experience and Swiss quality is your guarantee
We are a community and we serve a community. Nothing we do stands alone, everything depends on cooperation and collaboration.
Innovation
INNOVATION means taking a pioneering approach to the design of our products and services, being energetic, creative and passionate about everything we do. We are forward looking; anticipating customers’ needs, overcoming barriers and developing opportunities. We encourage and support new ideas, and are always seeking to improve the quality of patients lifes.
Customer Satisfaction
In support of our commitment to develop medical technology and services that contribute to successful outcomes for every patient, we have established global processes and procedures that allow customers to provide feedback. Information regarding device performance or services rendered is routinely reviewed so that customer feedback is a primary input to our continuous improvement mechanisms and to ensure that QMEDICS supports the global regulatory medical device vigilance systems.
Our Organisation

CEO & Stv. Executive Board

Anita Patteet
CEO
Anita Patteet
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Before joining QMEDICS, she held various international leadership positions within Sonova, Biotronik and Terumo. Her medical and scientific expertise and her knowledge of the health care enviremont makes her a global strategic thinker what is crucial for buseniss success. She brings more than 18 years of international know- how in Life Sciences companies. Especially experienced in the domain R&D,Regulatory, Clinical & Quality for active implantable devices, combined medical devices and Class III medical devices. In her last position Anita acted as Global Vice President of Regulatory, Clinical and Quality Affairs. Besides her industrial experience, she brings as well over 10 years of medical exprience at the Cardio-Vascular Surgery department of the University of Leuven.

Anita Patteet, CEO of Qmedics
Executive Board

Anita Patteet
CEO

Monica Baumann
Head of HR & Insurance management
Monica Baumann has been employed at Qmedics AG since June 2019. She has more than 20 years of experience in human resources and payroll accounting, basic commercial training, and various further training in accounting and human resources. She now supports our CEOs with insurance and staff welfare.

Alexander Karl
CCO

Liesbeth Rebsamen
International Regulations and Executive Assistant
Each of us can make a difference. Together we make change. – Barbara Mikulski
Liesbeth Rebsamen completed her training with a Master of Science in Nursing and further training in medical business administration and regulatory management. She has several years of experience as a nurse in various medical specialties. She joined Qmedics AG in August 2017 and took on a variety of tasks in the areas of clinical and regulatory submissions as well as international contract administration. She now supports our CEO as Assistant to the EXB and handles the entire regulatory process and the necessary contracts for new supplier countries.
Management Board

René Oeschger
Quality Affairs
It doesn’t have to be perfect to be good. We should become aware more often of what is going well – and not just look at the negative things.
Renè has more than 30 years of experience and has acquired vast knowledge through his work in medical companies. He is a certified Lead Auditor and Quality EOQ Quality Management expert. At Qmedics, he strives to meet the high demands of customers and produce excellent products to improve the quality of life of patients every day while complying with the ever-increasing regulatory requirements.

Bozo Smodlaka
Maintenance & Production Support
“Um das Mögliche zu erreichen, muss man das Unmögliche versucht haben.” – Hermann Hesse
Bozo has more than 20 years of experience. At Qmedics, he takes up every challenge and uses his expertise to contribute to the success of the Company.
His goal is to ensure that patients and customers get high quality and thus, he works hard day by day, to improve people’s quality of life.
To achieve that, no way is too far for and no mountain is too high for Bozo.

Ban Owayd
Production Engineering /BDC
“There are two ways to live your life, either as if nothing was a miracle, or as if everything was a miracle.” – Albert Einstein.
Ban is the Senior Production Engineer and BDC Manager of Qmedics. She leads two teams of employees, responsible for the production of balloon and stent catheters. She is the bridge between R&D and Production. She has a great interest in scientific development and has been working in this direction for 15 years. Her passion for Science led her to successfully obtain her B.S. in Physics at the University of Baghdad.

Deniz Polat Mertoglu
Production SDS
Deniz Polat Mertoglu
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
Deniz has been working in stent production for more than 12 years. His main focus is high Quality, performance, and production innovation.
It is very important to him, to meet both the wishes and the requirements of customers and to produce excellent products within given timelines to improve the quality of life of patients.

Tobias Giger
Supply Chain and Logistics
Tobias Giger actively joined Qmedics AG in October 2019. After his basic education, he completed further education to become a Swiss-certified business economist HF and holds a BSc in International Studies. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of supply chain and logistics in various industries.
For the last three years, he has been heading the Supply Chain Department of Qmedics and actively supports our managing director in the areas of production planning and finance.

Manuel Righero
Research & Development
“Imagination is more important than knowledge” – Albert Einstein
Manuel is a Biomedical Engineer passionate about Medical Devices and Innovation. During his time with Qmedics, he has acquired a wide range of competencies, from design to process development. He successfully performs multiple roles and believes in thinking outside the box to trigger improvements and optimizations.
He is curious and determined to never stop learning and is motivated by new challenges.

Juhi Chaturvedi
Software & IT Management
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t you’ll find an excuse ” -Jim Rohn
Juhi is responsible for managing the IT department at Qmedics. She has worked in the field of Software and Hardware quality for more than 10 years and has a Master’s in Total Quality management. Her goal is to ensure that Qmedics is at par with the industry standards in terms of Information security, efficient functioning, and technology.
She believes in going the extra mile and takes pride in her work.

Oana Brancati-Badarau
Clinical and Regulatory
Oana handles the Clinical and Regulatory department at Qmedics. She is MDR Compliance Officer and plays a major role in Clinical Submissions and investigations. Oana also manages specific CRO responsibilities, including regulatory documentation and approvals, communication with sites, and monitoring.
She has a Ph.D. in biomedical ethics and believes in giving back to the community.