Room to Grow: Emerging Growth Orthopedic Companies (ODTMag)
This is the fifth year, as part of our Top Company Report issue, that Orthopedic Design & Technology has profiled small and midsize emerging growth firms positioning themselves alongside (perhaps with the goal of overtaking or being acquired by) larger market leaders. This year’s installment provides an overview of four orthopedic companies vying for rank, digests their technologies, examines their sectors and what’s kept them busy during the past year.
Titan Spine
Leadership: • Peter Ullrich, M.D., Co-Founder & CEO• Kevin Gemas, Co-Founder & President• Mark Berg, Sr. VP, Global OperationsSector: Spinal FusionLocation: Mequon, Wis. & Laichingen, GermanyOnline: www.titanspine.comSpinal fusion technology has been around a long time, with a widely accepted profile of safety and efficacy. Detractors, however, say that fusing vertebrae together alters the biomechanics of the spine and puts excess pressure on other vertebral levels, which can cause issues following surgery (sometimes years after), such as problems with the vertebrae above and below where the fusion took place. The anti-fusion gro...
