About Kama Consultants

Large-company discipline for early-stage teams.

KAMA Consultants helps physician founders, startups, investors and research teams turn early concepts into working prototypes and clinically viable, fundable technologies.

20+years in regulated device development

US · EU · JPgranted patents

Edwards · Medtronic · J&Jengineering and M&A integration

Irvine, CAOrange County medtech cluster

The leadership

Kokou Amefia, Principal & Founder

Kokou Amefia is a biomedical engineer, consultant and inventor with more than 20 years of experience developing medical devices at Edwards Lifesciences, Medtronic and Johnson & Johnson.

His work spans neurovascular, structural heart, electrophysiology and ENT, with hands-on experience in capital equipment, sensor-based systems, nitinol implants and catheter design. He is named on multiple patents in the United States, Europe and Japan and has worked on technology integration after acquisitions.

He holds a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University and a Master's in Project Management.

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Past projects

We are at the forefront of innovation.

Technical due diligence for an Orange County incubator
Cardiovascular and neurovascular implant and catheter design
Early concept development with a local university
Radar scans and investor packages for physician-founded startups

Named inventor

Patents across six device areas

A selection of granted patents and published applications where Kokou is a named inventor, from structural heart to neurovascular, electrophysiology, ENT, implantable sensors and power-line communications. Representative drawings from the filings; each card links to the full record on Google Patents.