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- 2 days ago1h 35m
Step Right Up: Blue Ribbon Inspiration from Dr. Leonard Buller and Ryan Van Puffelen!!
The State Fair is in full swing, AAHKS is right around the corner, and Device Nation is serving up a best-in-show double header! Grab a smoked turkey leg, funnel cake and a sweet tater fries s’mores slop bucket as Ryan “RVP” Van Puffelen of DePuy Synthes opens the room. Ryan is a Warsaw, Indiana native and a 25-year ortho veteran. He shares how a “fortuitous mistake” of a co-op launched his career, why the KOL is making room for the DOL (Digital Opinion Leader), and why authentici...
- 6 days ago22 min
"Brown Bag" with Link US President of Sales, Greg Pomasl!!
Turning Disasters Into Comebacks with Greg Pomasl of LINK What does a brown 1975 Camaro, a falling headliner, and a broken driver’s side door have to do with revision arthroplasty? More than you’d think! 😄 On this episode of Brown Bag, Device Nation sits down with Greg Pomasl, US President of Sales for LINK, and his story is one you’ll want to hear. Greg started out as a teacher and strength coach at Indiana University. He talked his way into his first orthopedic job, ran a distributorship, a...
- 3 weeks ago1h 21m
From Fort Bragg To The First Reverse In The US: Device Nation Salutes The Extraordinary Career Of Dr. Carl Basamania!
The reverse total shoulder is on OR schedules every day now, but someone had to do the first one in the United States. In 2003, in OR Room 36 at Duke University Hospital in Durham, NC, that someone was Dr. Carl Basamania! What an honor sharing the inspiring story of Dr. Basamania, tracing a career that runs from Rochester, New York, through the U.S. Army, and into some of orthopedics’ most important innovations! In this episode: What put him on the path to medicine Military service...
- Oct 1, 202632 min
Master of Disaster: Dr. Richard Buch, Founder of Disasterplasty!!
The case went sideways, the films look ugly, and somebody needs a Surgeon with an "I can fix that" mindset. For so many years, that Surgeon has been Dr. Richard Buch! Dr. Buch is the founder of the Dallas Limb Restoration Center in Carrollton, Texas, and with more than 13,500 joint procedures behind him, he's seen the outcomes many Surgeons hope they never see. He's the founder of DisasterPlasty, a conference built around the hardest cases in arthroplasty (and how to avoid disasters in ...
- Sep 16, 20261h 19m
A Conversation "To The Maxx" With CEO Ashesh Shah, MBA and Distributor Kris Jones!
Device Nation sits down for a most inspiring conversation with two leaders I so respect in our space! Independent Distributor Kris Jones "opens the room" for us as we talk about his life, his career as a scrub tech, why he likes to fix all things, the family medical device business, how to run a successful independent shop (should you even do it in the first place) and so much more! We finish with one of my c-suite heroes, Ashesh Shah, MBA! Ashesh Shah is President & CEO of Ma...
- Aug 14, 20261h 18m
Manhole Covers & Purple Plungers: An Entrepreneur/Sales Masters Class with Dr. Stephen Gunther & Mike Nelligan!
What an inspiring conversation with an entrepreneurial icon in our industry, Dr. Stephen Gunther! From an assistant professor at UCSF to founder of Shoulder Innovations, a company that rang the bell on the NYSE in 2025, a 20-year build of a most inspiring story!! Dr. Gunther saw a gap in shoulder arthroplasty that nobody else was solving (implant loosening, one of the leading causes of failure in the space) and instead of writing a paper about it, he patented the fix. The inset glenoid. 15 pa...
- Jun 23, 20261h 25m
He Nailed It.....40 Years of Trauma Innovation with Dr. Toney Russell!!!
This week, Device Nation sits down with one of orthopaedic trauma's true legends, Dr. Thomas "Toney" Russell. Over four decades, Dr. Russell hasn't just practiced trauma surgery, he's built it. The Russell-Taylor nail. The Intertan. Periloc plates. Osstic bone glue. 30 + U.S. patents. A career that runs from the Elvis Presley Trauma Center to the C-suites of global med-tech companies. We cover it all: IM nailing, plates, screws, ex-fix, calcium phosphate and sulfate, OTA, BBQ, and yes, ...
- Jun 10, 20269 min
"Brown Bag" With US VP of Sales for BONESUPPORT , Aaron Lepper!
What a privilege, introducing Device Nation to Aaron Lepper, BONESUPPORT US VP of Sales! CERAMENT G is a product we believe you should consider for YOUR bag, as it's the first and only injectable antibiotic-eluting bone graft indicated for use in the management of bone infection. -Remodels into host bone in 6-12 months (1) -Injectable and flowable -Gentamicin elution above MIC that's reliable and consistent (2) -High local concentration of gentamicin, without high serum gentamicin levels (2)...
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