Mr. Carls brings insight into the “development of therapies surgeons use to perform spine surgery and deep relationships with top surgical leaders,” CEO Gabe Jones said in a Dec. 2 news release.
At Medtronic, he led the engineering activities for the spine and biologics business unit. He has more than 80 industry patents.
Proprio, a computational imaging company, recently added two spine surgeons and one neurosurgeon to its newly created medical advisory board.
The company is developing a navigation platform that combines robotics, computer vision and graphics processing technologies for spine surgery.
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