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About Us

Revolutionizing Tibia Fracture Treatment

Orthopedica was founded in 20__ to dramatically improve the treatment of Tibea Fractures.   

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Our Story

The Orthopedica technology is based on almost twenty years of research conducted at Hadassah Medical Center, Israel's most renowned medical institution. 

 

Our story starts when a team of leading orthopedic surgeons and researchers became convinced that most tibea fractures could be effectively treated without surgery and took on the mission to create a technology that would enable this. 

 

Mission accomplished! the breakthrough design of the Orthopedica REF has been demonstrated to cut the healing time in more than half versus conventional treatment, while avoiding the risks, discomfort, and costs of surgery.   

Meet the Team

The Orthopedica founding team comprises decades of deep scientific,  clinical, advanced technology, and business expertise

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Co-founder, Co-Chairman, & CEO

Dr. Shmuel (Sam) Raz, PhD

  • 30 year career of executive leadership of major hospital and health systems in the US and Israel

  • Turnaround specialist:  Led four highly successful turnarounds of failing major medical systems/corporations

  • Co-founder of SMS Medical Technology & CEO of number of SMS startup acquisitions

  • Mentor to 15 medtech startups

  • Recipient of 5 prestigious grant awards

  • BSc, MPH, PhD (UCLA, Univ. of Michigan, Univ. of Texas)

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Co-founder & Chairman

Prof. D. Farkas, PhD

  • World-renowned Research  and clinical leader in minimally invasive surgery technologies (Cedars-Sinai, Carnegie Mellon, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USC)

  • Published author of 180 peer-reviewed articles

  • Author/editor of 18 specialist books

  • Served on 11 journal editorial boards

  • 29 granted patents

  • Founder/co-founder/chairman of 8 successful medtech startups

  • PhD Weizmann Institute (Fulbright Scholar)

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Chief Medical Officer

Prof. C. Howard, MD

  • Noted authority on role of mechanical environment in fracture healing

  • Author of 80 peer reviewed articles

  • Inventor of the core technology underlying the REF

  • Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Hebrew University, and Soroka & Hadassah teaching hospitals

  • MD, M.B., B.S., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S. F.R.C.S. Clifton College & Guy’s Hospital; Orthopedic training at Oxford University

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Chief Technology Officer

Guy Lev-Raz

  • Senior mechanical engineer, multi-disciplinary innovator, and engineering project manager

  • Highly successful track record of design and development of advanced medical device, space-flight, robotics, consumer electronics, and wearable products.

  • Extensive expertise across wide-range of mechanical, electrical, fluid, communications, and sensor technologies.

  • Degree in mechanical engineering, University of Texas

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