Orthotics Consultants

OrthoBioMech LLC provides Medical Device Development and Injury Biomechanics Analysis services to the orthopedic and legal fields. The founder, Mari S. Truman, PE, has more than 37 years of experience in Orthopedic Product Design and Development. As Principal Engineer, she acts as an R&D design and development consultant to the orthopaedic industry and an injury biomechanics and medical device forensic expert.

While working for and with the major US Orthopaedic companies, she designed numerous instruments and implants for repair of skeletal injury. Ms. Truman is named on 12 Orthopaedic Patents and frequently gives talks on implant design and injury biomechanics on topics such as: knee and thumb-based joint surfaces and kinematics, joint design, rapid prototyping, medical device design control, and injury biomechanics.

Ms. Truman founded and ran ArthroMotion (1993-1997) and Seabrook International LLC's Midwest Design Center (1999-2002). Her project experience (non-inclusive):

• Total and Hemi Joint Resurfacing Systems: Hip, Knee, Wrist, Ankle, Hand/Toe, CMC, PIP, DIP, Shoulder
  
• Trauma Systems: Plates, specialty screws, intramedullary nails, wires, cables, external fixation systems, spinal fusion systems
  
• Soft Tissue Reattachment Systems

Speaking Venues: ASME Congress, North American Spine Society, Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, International Society of Biomechanics, National Manufacturing Week Conference, American Society for Surgery of the Hand, International Hand and Wrist Biomechanics Symposium, International Federation of the of the Societies for Surgery of the Hand, Vth International Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics, Indiana Medical Device Manufacturer’s Council, Ohio Bar Association and the Ohio Trial Lawyer’s Association.

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Dr. Kazerooni is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also serves as the Director of the Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory. With over 35 years of experience in mechanical engineering and a doctorate from MIT, he is a leading expert in automated machinery, including robotics, medical devices, ergonomics and human-machine systems, wearable and assistive devices, exoskeleton systems, as well as orthotic and prosthetic systems. He is the inventor of more than 200 US and International patents, over 80% of which have been licensed, and has been inducted into the U.S. National Academy of Inventors.

In addition to his academic teaching and research, Dr. Kazerooni is an active entrepreneur. In 2005, he founded Ekso Bionics (eksobionics.com), which became a publicly traded company in 2014 and now supplies the Ekso medical exoskeleton to rehabilitation centers worldwide. He later founded suitX (suitx.com), a venture capital-, industry-, and government-funded company providing industrial and medical exoskeletons. suitX was acquired in late 2021 by Ottobock, a medical device company in Europe.

Litigation Support - Dr. Kazerooni has been deposed and testified in various Intellectual Property cases. His services include thorough examination and reporting, depositions, and trial testimony as needed.

Areas of Expertise:

• automated machinery
• robotics
• medical devices
• ergonomics and human-machine systems
• wearable and assistive devices
• exoskeleton systems
• orthotic and prosthetic systems
• intelligent assist devices
• control algorithm

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