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Avancen Corporation is on a mission to change the way PAIN medication is dis-
pensed at the patient’s bedside. A scientific and technological innovation, the Medi-
cation on Demand (MOD®) device system improves quality of care, transforms pain
management, and offers autonomy to those affected by pain.
Every morning as she was seeing her pa-
tients at the hospital, Sharon Conley, An
MD specializing in oncology and hematol-
ogy and a PhD biochemist would encoun-
ter the same situation: a patient in pain be-
cause the nurses did not have the time to
deliver their medication. Unable to fathom
why the IV PCA pump process had not yet
been automated for oral pain medication,
she decided to reach out to medical device
companies about developing a product that
would change patient care.
Conley’s frustration would find no salva-
tion from the medical companies. They
don’t develop products from scratch; never
mind products that aim to change the para-
digms of health care. After filing a patent
and attempting to give the patent away to
the same companies she approached about
development, the interest remained non-
existent. Conley had had enough. She left
her practice and devoted her time to the
MOD device and the inception of the
Avancen MOD Corporation.