Digital Surgery Planning: An Interview with TECHFIT’s Co-founder and CEO Mauricio Toro By Charles Goulding on August 17th, 2023
The combination of digital planning and 3D printing promises to considerably improve outcomes for patients while making surgeries more time and cost-effective. We had a conversation with TECHFIT’s co-founder and CEO Mauricio Toro, in which he gave us an overview of his company’s work along with his views on the challenges and opportunities of 3D printing in healthcare.
To start, could you tell us a little about yourself and the educational and professional experiences that ultimately led you to co-found TECHFIT?
I started as a motorsport engineer. My background is actually as an aerodynamicist for race cars. I worked with the Formula Three team in the UK. A family friend, who is my cofounder at TECHFIT, he’s a doctor and he introduced me to the medical field. He invited me to be a part of a medical device company and I pivoted my career towards the medical device space. When I got into the orthopedics field, I couldn’t help but compare it to the automotive industry. Race cars are a passion and a pinnacle of automotive innovation but they a...
