Changing how you see Surgery.
About Unify MEDICAL
About Unify MEDICAL
Our Company
Our Board of Directors
We are guided by a ream with Deep Knowledge and expertise in the surgical market
Our board of
Medical Advisors
Our advisory team is composed of distinguished surgeons, each of whom brings their unique and inciteful perspectives from a broad range of surgical specialities.
Board of Directors
Douglas Carroll
Board Member
President & CEO, UNIFY MEDICAL
Focused in the emerging-technology/start-up sector, Douglas brings with him over 30 years of experience and a remarkable track record of successfully transacted start-ups. He has held positions of increasing responsibility in Sales, Sales Management, Business Development and Commercialization across a wide array of successfully transacted organizations including Gauss Surgical (acquired by Stryker), Novadaq (acquired by Stryker), I-Flow Corporation (acquired by Kimberly Clark), LuMend (acquired by Johnson & Johnson), Pro-Duct Health (acquired by Cytyc) and Cardiothoracic Systems (acquired by Guidant).
Art Bailey
Chief Operating Officer, UNIFY MEDICAL
Board Observer
Art Bailey brings to Unify Medical over 15 years experience developing and manufacturing medical devices with a substantial emphasis on advanced vision systems for the operating room. As VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Novadaq, his team developed class-leading fluorescence imaging products that spurred the $700M acquisition by Stryker. As management representative for quality at both Stryker and Novadaq, Art successfully integrated FDA-compliant quality management into cost-saving business operations. Prior to working for Novadaq, Art briefly worked for Xillix Technologies as a research engineer in advanced imaging. Art received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from U.C. Santa Barbara.
Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, MD
Board Member
Professor of Orthopaedics at Brown University Medical School & Medical University of South Carolina
Dr. Arnold-Peter Weiss is a hand surgeon having received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University, completed an orthopedic surgery residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and a hand surgery fellowship at the Indiana Hand Center. He is currently the R. Scot Sellers Scholar of Hand Surgery, Chief of Hand Surgery, Vice Chairman and Professor at Brown Medical School and also has an appointment of Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Dr. Weiss has published over 215 peer-reviewed medical articles and many textbooks including the two-volume, ASSH Textbook of Hand & Upper Extremity Surgery. He lectures extensively both nationally and internationally on hand surgery and has been awarded the AOA North American Fellowship, the American-British-Canadian Fellowship, the Sterling Bunnell fellowship and the Weiland Medal for Outstanding Lifetime Research in Hand Surgery. He is Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Hand Surgery and the Journal of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand.
Francis Papay, MD
Board Member
Co-Founder, UNIFY MEDICAL
Frank Papay, MD, is the Chairman of the Dermatology & Plastic Surgery Institute at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Papay has been a member of Cleveland Clinic’s professional staff since 1992. He also serves as Section Head of Craniofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He is a Professor of Surgery in Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.
Dr. Papay has been recognized as a Top Doc in plastic surgery by Cleveland magazine and Castle Connolly. Dr. Papay has served as President of the Ohio Valley Society of Plastic Surgeons, elected Chair of the American Society of Plastic Surgery’s Ethics Committee, President of the Plastic Surgery Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Executive Committee Member of the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northern Ohio.
Yang Liu, PhD
Board Member
Co-Founder/ CTO, UNIFY MEDICAL
Yang Liu, PhD is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a faculty member with the Iowa Informatics Initiative. In addition to directing the Integrated Imaging and Cyberphysical System Laboratory, he is a researcher in the Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging and the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
Professor Liu’s research includes multimodal imaging, augmented reality, 3D computer vision, image registration, and machine learning. He received a PhD in biomedical engineering from Washington University, St. Louis.
Steve Moran, MD
Clinical Advisor
Dr. Moran is a Professor of Plastic Surgery and Orthopedic Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, and staff surgeon at the Shrine Hospital for Sick Children in Minneapolis. Dr. Moran is the former Chairman of the Division of Plastic Surgery at Mayo Clinic and is now the Surgical Director of the Mayo Clinics’ vascularized composite tissue allotransplant program. Dr. Moran’s practice focuses on disorders of the upper extremity as well as microsurgical reconstruction. His primary interests are congenital hand surgery, wrist arthritis and microsurgical reconstruction of the upper and lower extremity. Dr. Moran has published over 325 peer reviewed papers, over 90 book chapters and has edited three text books. He was the associate editor for the Journal of Hand Surgery, Hand and the Year Book of Hand Surgery. He is presently the associate editor for The Journal of Wrist Surgery.
Medical Advisors
Kavi Sachar, MD
Steadman Clinic
Contributing hand & wrist
Dr. Kavi Sachar is a nationally known orthopedic surgeon specializing in hand, wrist, and elbow surgery. As a physician at The Steadman Clinic, Dr. Sachar focuses on restoring function through innovative open and arthroscopic techniques while treating athletes from the NFL, NHL, and NBA. As a board-certified Orthopedic Surgeon, Dr. Sachar is a member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and the American Society for Surgery of the Hand.
Dr. Sachar has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Hand Surgery starting in 1999. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Orthopaedic Techniques and has been a reviewer for the journal Current Orthopedic Practice since 2009. He has been an examiner for the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery since 2010. Dr. Sachar has been the director of the successful Doctors Demystify Teaching Symposium for over ten years. Dr. Sachar served on the State of Colorado Cumulative Trauma Task Force Committee in 2009. He is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society and the Sigma XI Scientific Research Honor Society.
Dr. Sachar has had numerous publications in peer-review journals and books. He lectures both locally and nationally, including the Hand Society (ASSH) annual meeting and the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) annual meeting. Dr. Sachar enjoys all aspects of Hand and Elbow surgery but has special interests in elbow arthritis, elbow ligament reconstruction, elbow arthroscopy, compressive nerve syndromes, distal radius fractures, work-related injuries, sports-related injuries, and trauma.
Luis B. Suarez, MD
TUFTS
Contributing vascular matters
Dr. Luis Suarez is a vascular surgeon specializing in the treatment of peripheral arterial and venous disease. He trained at Yale New Haven Hospital in general surgery followed by a vascular surgery fellowship at Tufts Medical Center. He currently practices at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Suarez is a board-certified vascular surgeon, a registered physician in vascular interpretation, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Society for Vascular Surgery.
Dr. Suarez has been a reviewer for the Journal of Vascular Surgery, Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders and the Journal of Vascular Surgery:Cases and Innovative Techniques. He has multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals and books. He has presented at multiple national meetings and has been an invited lecturer at local, regional, and international meetings.
As a surgeon, Dr. Suarez provides care in all areas of vascular surgery, including carotid disease, aortic aneurysm, and venous insufficiency. He has a special interest in the management of peripheral arterial disease, advanced wound care, and limb salvage.
Thoralf M. Sundt, III, M.D.
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Contributing cardiothoracic surgery perspective
Contributing research interest in human factors and patient safety
Dr. Thoralf Sundt’s clinical focus has been on surgery for the correction of acquired cardiovascular conditions in adults. He is an internationally recognized thought-leader on thoracic aortic diseases, having written and lectured extensively on the subject. He is also widely recognized as an expert in reparative procedures for valvular heart disease as well as the use of arterial conduits to improve the long-term durability of coronary bypass procedures.
His research interests have ranged from organ transplantation to the genetics and genomics of bicuspid aortic valve disease. He has received funding by the National Institutes of Health, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Mayo Foundation for this work. Most recently, he collaborated with investigators in the disciplines of human factors and systems engineering to improve the safety and efficiency of healthcare delivery. On a national level, he was the first chair of the Workforce on Patient Safety for the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
He has served in numerous executive roles, including surgical director for cardiac transplantation at Washington University in St. Louis, surgical director of the Thoracic Aortic and Marfan Clinic at the Mayo Clinic and vice-chair of the Department of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Dr. Sundt is a Past-President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
Thomas A. Zdeblick, M.D.
Department of Orthopedics & Rehabilitation
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Contributing spine matters
Dr. Thomas Zdeblick received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Marquette University, where he also captained the soccer team. He completed medical school at Tufts University in 1982 and his Orthopedic Surgery training was performed at Case Western Reserve University, which included a Microsurgery Research Fellowship. Following residency, he completed a Spine Surgery Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD.
Dr. Zdeblick joined the Faculty at the University of Wisconsin (UW) in 1989. He established the UW Spine Center in 1990 and continues as its Director. In 2000, he became the A.A. McBeath Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation at UW. He served on the original Board and Executive Committee of the UW Medical Foundation from 1995-2001. Dr. Zdeblick’s research interests have included spinal biomechanics, fusion healing, interbody fusion cages, artificial discs, and bone graft substitutes. Dr. Zdeblick holds 20 patents for innovations in spinal surgery. He currently has seven spinal implants of his design being used world-wide.
Dr. Zdeblick has authored over 104 scientific publications, 7 text books, 33 book chapters, has been a visiting professor on 37 occasions and has given over 500 scientific presentations. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques from 2002 – 2017. He has served as the President of the Cervical Spine Research Society (CSRS) and as the President of the Lumbar Spine Research Society (LSRS). Dr. Zdeblick was instrumental in the development, construction, and organization of a surgical specialty hospital, The East Madison Hospital, formerly known as UW Health at the American Center.
