MedTech Advisory Council

Meet the AOC MedTech Advisory Council (MTAC)

Thank you to our incredible roster of AOC and Industry Leaders who have been appointed to our AOC MedTech Advisory Council. We are especially grateful for the leadership of our Co-Chairs who were invited to not only represent the perspectives of larger size/smaller sized AMCs and MedTech Companies, but to also help organize and lead the important work of this Council.

The goal of our work is to foster a more efficient, trust-based, and scalable process for evaluating, validating, educating, and adopting new technologies across key stakeholders (Orthopaedic Departments + AMCs + Industry).

Co-Chairs

Joshua J. Jacobs, MD

MedTech Advisory Co-Chair & Executive Committee

Chair-Emeritus, Midwest Rush

Xavier Rivera

MedTech Advisory Co-Chair & Executive Committee

Director, Academic Medical Centers Customer Solutions, DePuy Synthes

Stuart Simpson

MedTech Advisory Co-Chair, Executive Committee

CEO, ThinkSurgical

Rafael Sierra, MD

MedTech Advisory Co-Chair & Executive Committee

Chair, Division of Hip and Knee, Mayo Clinic

Executive Committee

Scott Boden, MD

Senior Advisor to CEO; AOC Board of Advisors; AOC Council Chair; AOC MedTech Advisory Co-Chair & Executive Committee

Executive Vice President for University Clinical Affairs and Dean, Indiana University School of Medicine

Matthew Dietz, MD

MedTech Advisory Co-Chair & Executive Committee

Chair, West Virginia

Chad Evans

MedTech Advisory Executive Committee

VP/GM Customer Solutions, Stryker

Catherine Humphrey, MD, MBA

MedTech Advisory Executive Committee

Associate Chief Medical Officer, University of Rochester Health System

Brendan Shook

MedTech Advisory Executive Committee

Director of Teaching Institute Marketing, Smith + Nephew Orthopaedics

Joshua J. Jacobs, MD

MedTech Advisory Co-Chair & Executive Committee

Chair-Emeritus, Midwest Rush

Xavier Rivera

MedTech Advisory Co-Chair & Executive Committee

Director, Academic Medical Centers Customer Solutions, DePuy Synthes

Stuart Simpson

MedTech Advisory Co-Chair, Executive Committee

CEO, ThinkSurgical

Regis J. O’Keefe, MD, PhD

MedTech Advisory Executive Committee

Fred C. Reynolds Professor and Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine

Rafael Sierra, MD

MedTech Advisory Co-Chair & Executive Committee

Chair, Division of Hip and Knee, Mayo Clinic

William Vasileff, MD

MedTech Advisory Executive Committee

Associate Professor Orthopaedic Surgery, Associate Medical Director Supply Chain/Value Analysis, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Council Members

Brett Estervig

Executive VP & GM, Orthopedics, Smith+Nephew

Craig Gaffin

President, Global Orthopaedics, Smith+Nephew

Michael R. Gagnon, MBA

Founder & CEO, AOC Connect

Chief Administrative Officer – Emeritus, Duke University Orthopaedics; Founder & CEO, JobsInOrtho

Grant Garrigues, MD

Chief Medical Officer, AOC Connect

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush

Daniel Goltz, MD, MBA

Senior Director, AOC Health Policy & Economic Value Analysis

Orthopaedic Surgeon - Shoulder & Elbow Specialist, Rothman Orthopaedics

Eoghan T. Hurley, MB BCh BAO, MCh, PhD

Senior Director, AOC Delphi Survey and Analysis

Duke University

Safdar Khan, MD

Vice Chair, UC Davis

Adam Levin, MD

Vice Chair, Johns Hopkins

Albert Lin, MD

Vice Chair, Pittsburgh

R. Lor Randall, MD

Chair, UC Davis

Simran Sabharwal

Vice President, US Commercial Marketing, Orthopedics, Smith+Nephew

Michael Stauff, MD

Chair, UMASS

Aaron Chamberlain, MD

Senior Medical Director, Intermountain Health

Cynthia Emory, MD, MBA

Professor and Chair, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Jonathan Gustafson, PhD

Senior Director, Clinical Research Projects, AOC Connect

Assistant Professor; IBTS Fellowship Research Director; Orthopaedic Surgery; Rush University Medical Center

Mitchel Harris, MD

Chair, Massachusetts General Hospital

Karl Koenig, MD

Chair, University of Texas, Austin

Rick Wright, MD

Chair, Vanderbilt