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What has driven Dr Jim Marino to found companies such as NuVasive and Trinity Orthopedics - BoneChat

11 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Jim Marino trained in arthroscopic surgery at UCSD and founded companies to develop minimally invasive techniques for knee, shoulder, ankle, wrist, and elbow procedures. He built specialized surgical methods and instrumentation because he saw the potential to improve patient outcomes by doing things differently in orthopedics.

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I'm always, like many orthopedists, trying to figure out how to do things differently and hopefully better. And for those reasons, when I finished my orthopedic training at UCSD and started practicing, I was in a nascent field at the time, which was arthroscopic surgery of the peripheral joints. And I could see where minimally invasive techniques had a great deal to offer for knee, shoulder, ankle, wrist, etc., elbow surgery. And as in peripheral joint surgery like knee surgery, there would have to be a number of techniques and instrumentation developed to optimize minimally invasive surgery.