Industry Advisory Board
CDMI IAB Chair
R&D Department Manager
Member since 2021
Research Interests: Material (especially metal) for medical devices, biomaterials
Ryan D. Bond
Chief Strategy Officer
Member since 2022
Research Interest: Chronic low back pain, biomarkers, precision diagnostics, economic value, disruptive innovation
Christopher Hughes
Director, Movement Science
and Ergonomics
Member since 2023
Research interests: Injury prevention and education, manual materials handling, motion analysis, musculoskeletal biomechanics, return to work
Jesse Jacobs
Product Director, Science & Research; Director, Data Science
Member since 2018
Research interests: Prediction/prevention, novel technologies, reducing disabilities due to musculoskeletal disorders
Bahram Saleh
Ben Goss
Director of Research
Member since 2022
Research interests: Musculoskeletal pain, spine surgery and biomaterials
Jeremy Rawlinson
Distinguished Scientist
Technical Fellow
Member since 2016
Research interests: Disease and degeneration, bioactive materials, bone remodeling
Mike Lampl
Director of Research
Member since 2018
Research interests: Ergonomics assessment methods, injury prevention, safe return-to-work
Spider Spine
Anand Agarwal
Director of Research and Development
Member since 2022
SPIDER SPINE LLC
VGI Medical, LLC
Tov Vestgaarden
President and CEO of
VGI Medical, LLC
Member since 2022
Research Interests:
Experimental biomechanics, finite element analysis of the spine
Timothy Dewitt
Biomedical Engineer, AFRL/711th Human Performance Wing
Member since 2022
Research interests: Human injury prediction and mitigation strategies due to high accelerative loading, human body finite element modeling
Norihiro Nishida
Assistant Professor, Spine Surgeon
Member since 2022
Research interests: Biomechanics of the spine and spinal cord
