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  Ottobock Announces Leadership Change Otto Bock HealthCare, Duderstadt, Germany, (aka Ottobock) has started the process of converting to an SE & Co. KGaA, a type of limited partnership. Otto Bock Holding possesses an 80 percent share in Otto Bock HealthCare and is 100 percent owne...
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  Ekso Bionics Makes Board Appointment Ekso Bionics Holdings, Richmond, California, has appointed Ted Wang, PhD, to its board of directors, effective immediately. Wang is the founder and chief investment officer of Puissance Capital Management, New York, a global asset manager. Prior t...
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  OPAF Names New Advisory Board Members The Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation (OPAF) recently named new members to its advisory board: Adrianne Haslet, professional ballroom dancer and First Dance instructor, Boston; Tommy Lyon, national paraclimber and First Climb instruc...
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  Grant Will Help Roboticists Develop Smart Ankle The National Science Foundation recently awarded a $1 million grant to Panagiotis Artemiadis, PhD, a roboticist at Arizona State University, and two other ASU scientists to develop and test a smart robotic ankle that could have the ability to adap...
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  Ottobock UK Names Head of Orthotics Ottobock UK, Twickenham, England, has named Kevin Green head of orthotics for Ottobock UK. Green has ten years of experience in the field of orthotics. He graduated from the University of Strathclyde in 2007.
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  Fatone Promoted to Professor at Northwestern Stefania Fatone, PhD, BPO(Hons), has been promoted to professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. Fatone is principal investigator for multiple research and development projects at the N...
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  Ability Prosthetics & Orthotics Relaunches Brand, Earns Best Place to Work Ability Prosthetics & Orthotics, headquartered in Exton, Pennsylvania, with the help of Quattro Healthcare Marketing (QHM), a Philadelphia-area advertising and marketing agency, has launched its new website and logo. QHM and Ability worked tog...
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  ACPOC Calls for Abstracts The Association of Children's Prosthetic-Orthotic Clinics (ACPOC) has issued a call for abstracts from professionals interested in pediatric p rosthetics and orthotics for its 2018 Annual Meeting April 11-14, 2018 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In ad...
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  RAND Study Shows Economic Value of Advanced Transfemoral Prostheses In spite of the advances in prosthetic technologies, payers—primarily the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services—have questioned the value of advanced prosthetic devices and related services. Payments for prosthetic devices decli...