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On June 9, 2013 the orthopedic world was jolted by the sudden loss of Harry N. Herkowitz, M.D., the much-loved chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. Dr. Herkowitz, who was 65 years old, is survived by his wife Jan, son Seth (Laura) and daughter Rachael (Michael – fiancé).
Fernando Villamil, M.D., chief of the Orthopaedic Spine Service at Ashford Presbyterian Community Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is Lanx, Inc.’s new director of education for Latin America. He also joins the company’s Surgeon Advisory Board.
After a couple of successful intellectual property and marketing fights with competitors, MAKO Surgical Corp. is getting back to business by hiring a new senior vice president of marketing. On June 3, 2013, the company announced the appointment of Ian Dawson to the position.
Cerepedics, Inc. has added two new executives to its administrative roster. One is Glen A. Kashuba who is the firm’s new chief executive officer. The other is Jeffrey G. Marx, Ph.D., who is the new president and chief operating officer.
Spine gurus K2M, Inc. have announced the promotion of Gianluca Iasci, formerly K2M’s Senior Vice President for International Sales, to the position of Executive Vice President, Global Sales.
AFcell Medical, Inc., a designer and supplier of birth tissue forms under its AmnioClear brand, has hired David Buche as Chief Operating Officer. Buche comes to AFCell Medical with over 25 years experience in the biologics and medical device industry.
IlluminOss Medical, Inc. has announced that Dirk Kuyper has joined the company as president and CEO.
Ian Armstrong, M.D. has joined the Scientific Advisory Board of Aurora Spine, located in Carlsbad, California.
Bill Jellison will be Stryker Corporation’s next CFO starting April 22, 2013.
Sean Kane has been named Vice President of Sales for SafeWire. Kane will use his more than 17 years of sales, clinical and executive management experience in the medical device industry to lead the sales of SafeWire’s worldwide Minimally Invasive Spinal Solutions Sales Division.
Minimally invasive spine surgery pioneer Anthony Yeung, M.D., and his wife, Eileen, are donating $2.5 million to develop a comprehensive state-of-the-art spinal endoscopic surgical center at the University of New Mexico (UNM).
Six new doctors are settling into the Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Department of Orthopaedics in New York City. The physicians, including surgeons and physiatrists, come to Mount Sinai from Beth Israel Medical Center.
Chicago’s Roosevelt University Athletic Program has announced the selection of Shane Nho, M.D., sports medicine specialist with Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush, as their new medical provider.
Benjamin A. Alman, M.D., A.J. Latner Professor and Chair of Orthopaedics at the University of Toronto, is set to become the new chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine.
Scott Bruder, M.D., Ph.D. has been a professor of biomedical engineering, an FDA Advisory Panel member, chief science and technology officer and a seasoned science executive with Becton, Dickinson and Company, DePuy, Inc., Anika Therapeutics, Inc. and Osiris Therapeutics, Inc.
Gerard S. Carlozzi, 56, the former executive vice-president and chief operating officer of Integra LifeSciences Corporation, died on Christmas Day, 2012, at Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia.
Kevin Murphy, M.D., an oncologist and specialist in disorders of the pediatric brain and spine, has joined the Aurora Spine, LLC Advisory Board of Physicians.
Namal Nawana, the recently departed head of DePuySynthes Spine, has a new job as COO of Alere, Inc.
Changes in board membership at the large orthopedic companies are usually not big news. But Zimmer Holdings, Inc.’s recent appointment of Gail Boudreaux to the board caught our attention. Boudreaux is the executive vice president of UnitedHealth Group and CEO of UnitedHealthcare.
Jeff Schoenfeld, CEO of PAL Health Technologies, Inc., a privately held company headquartered in central Illinois, died at his Naples, Florida residence on November 28.
Robert W. Carson, M.D, a pioneer in the field of arthroscopic surgery and a founding member of the Arthroscopy Association of North America, died November 22 at his home in Woodside, California.
NLT SPINE has announced that Peter Wehrly has joined the company’s Board of Directors. Wehrly brings over 25 years of experience and expertise in the medical device field, and formerly served as President of Medtronic's $3 billion Spinal, Biologics and Navigation Division.
Raymond Linovitz, M.D. has accepted appointment to the Advisory Board of Aurora Spine, a firm specializing in minimally-invasive (MIS), regenerative technologies.
Brad Mason, the former group president of Orthofix International NV and principal founder of BREG, Inc., has accepted the position of Chairman to the Advisory Board of Aurora Spine, LLC.
Marcus Klarl, following 22 years in the medical device industry in Europe, has joined Titan Spine, LLC as the Vice President of Sales for Europe.
James A. Natalie, M.D., has joined the Andrews Institute and Baptist Medical Group at Gulf Breeze, Florida.
The Board of Directors of Valtronic Technologies has brought about a change in the company’s management. It appointed Martin Zimmermann, Ph.D., to serve as CEO of the Valtronic Group as well as President of Valtronic Technologies (Suisse) SA.
ConforMIS has announced it has appointed 30-year business and financial management veteran Peter Traynor as the company’s Chief Financial Officer.
David Floyd is taking over Stryker's Orthopedics and Spine Business. Tim Scannell gets MedSurg and Neurotechnology. Kevin Lobo has his team in place.
Shinya Yamanaka, the scientist who won this year’s Nobel Prize for developing induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), is also an athlete. Yamanaka ran in this year's Tokyo Marathon in March to raise money for basic iPS research.
