Strzempka and Carroll with Winter the dolphin’s prosthetic tail. Photograph courtesy of Hanger Clinic.
Daniel Strzempka, CPO, area practice manager for Hanger Clinic’s Sarasota, Florida patient care facility, and Kevin Carroll, MS, CP, FAAOP, vice president of prosthetics for Hanger Clinic, headquartered in Austin Texas, have been selected to receive a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award for their work to develop WintersGel™, a prosthetic liner first developed for Winter, a tail-less dolphin at Clearwater Marine Aquarium, Florida.
They join other honorees including Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey, singer Justin Bieber and his manager Scooter Braun, Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, and Def Jam Records founder Rick Rubin, among other innovators in domains including culture, education, healthcare, philanthropy, politics, religion, and social entrepreneurship.
Every year, the Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) provides a space for innovative ideas in media, arts, and entertainment to collide. These awards, presented in association with Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen and the Disruptor Foundation, reflect TFF’s continued commitment to advances in progressive thinking. Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation explains why small companies prosper: “two guys in a garage” decimate dominant companies by developing a simpler, cheaper, and more accessible product or service.
