Steven M. Falowski, MD, FAANS – Medical Advisory Board Chair (bio)
Deepak Reddy, MD – Medical Advisory Board Vice Chair (bio)
Mehul J Desai, MD, MPH – Medical Advisory Board Member (bio)
Oren Gottfried, MD – Medical Advisory Board Member (bio)
Matthew Hunt, MD – Co-Investigator (bio)
Gregory F. Molnar, PhD. – Vice President & CSO, Vice Chair, Co-Founder has over 20 years of experience as a medical device innovator. He is a former associate professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Molnar was one of the inaugural Industry Fellows for the Institute of Engineering in Medicine, was one of the first fellows of the Medical Device Innovation Consortium, and was recently inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows.
Dr. Molnar began his career at Medtronic. He served as the director of neuromodulation research and led his team of scientists to advance our understanding of several therapies including DBS, Spinal Cord Stimulation, Sacral Nerve Stimulation, Gastric Stimulation and Intrathecal Drug Infusion. Dr. Molnar has authored numerous patents and publications in the neuromodulation space, and his research and inventions benefit patients today.
Dr. Molnar received his PhD in Neuromodulation and Clinical Neurophysiology at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Matthew Hunt, MD. – Co-Investigator is an Associate Professor and the Resident Program Director in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Minnesota. He is the residency program director, training the next generation of neurosurgical leaders. He specializes in neurosurgical spine surgery, brain and spinal tumor surgeries, and general neurosurgery. Dr. Hunt received his medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He completed his residency in neurosurgery at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. He also completed a Blood Brain Barrier and Neurosurgical Oncology Fellowship at Oregon Health and Science University, as well as a Neurosurgery Fellowship at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London.
Mehul J Desai, MD, MPH – Pain Medicine and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, International Spine, Pain & Performance Center is the Medical Director of the International Spine Pain and Performance Center in Arlington VA. He is board certified in Pain Medicine and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. Dr. Desai completed his residency in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the Georgetown University Hospital. During residency, he spent 6 months completing a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, conducting groundbreaking research into mechanisms of muscle pain. Upon completion of residency, he went on to a fellowship in Pain Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the Department of Anesthesiology. His clinical interests include neuromodulation–specifically, spinal cord stimulation and targeted drug delivery, dipsogenic pain, and intradiscal therapies, including biologics, complex spinal conditions, pelvic pain, outcomes-based research, and healthcare economics.
Steven M. Falowski MD, FAANS – Director Functional Neurosurgery Argires-Marotti Neurosurgical Associates of Lancaster earned his M.D. degree and completed his neurosurgical residency training at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia with a focus on spinal cord stimulation and pain management, complex spinal procedures, and treatment for movement disorders such as deep brain stimulation. He completed a graduate functional neurosurgical fellowship at Rush University in Chicago. He is a member of the American Medical Association, American Academy of Neurology, and the Pennsylvania Medical Society. He is on the International Neuromodulation Society Board of Directors; he is a senior advisor, ex-officio board of directors for the North American Neuromodulation Society; secretary/treasurer of the AANS/CNS Executive Pain Committee; and senior advisor, board of directors, Pacific Spine and Pain Society.
Oren Gottfried, MD. – Medical Advisory Board Member is a Professor of Neurosurgery at Duke University. He specializes in the surgical management of all complex cervical, thoracic, lumbar, or sacral spinal diseases by using minimally invasive as well as standard approaches for arthritis or degenerative disease, deformity, tumors, and trauma. He has a special interest in the treatment of thoracolumbar deformities and occipital-cervical problems and in helping patients with complex spinal issues from previously unsuccessful surgery or recurrent disease. He aims to improve surgical outcomes for his patients and care of all spine patients with active research evaluating clinical and radiological results after spine surgery with multiple prospective databases. He is particularly interested in prevention of spinal deformity, infections, complications, and recurrent spinal disease. He also studies whether patient-specific variables, including pelvic/sacral anatomy and sagittal spinal balance, predict complications from spine surgery.
Dr. Gottfried received his M.D. at the University of Arizona in 2001. He completed his residency and fellowship at the University of Utah and was an instructor of Spine Surgery and Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University.
