Pinnacle Spine Group has announced that Paul J. Sendro has been appointed the position of Chief Operating Officer for the Company. Sendro initially joined the company in January 2014 as Senior Vice President of Public Relations.
Paul Sendro Named COO of Pinnacle Spine
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As stated in the news release, Sendro has over 23 years of commercial experience in the medical device sector. “Before joining Pinnacle, he held the position of Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing for Amedica. Paul has also served in senior Sales Management and Marketing roles for Blackstone Medical and US Spine. Prior to that he held various management positions at Styker in both the domestic and international markets. Paul graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a second major in Business and later received his MBA from Adelphi University.”
Sendro told OTW, “All of our products, including our patented InFill Graft Delivery System, are CE Mark approved. We are currently working to develop a European market for our family of InFill products, beginning with our presence at Eursospine in October.”
“We also have several studies we are working to complete in Q1 2015, that we believe will further demonstrate the improved efficacy of our system in creating faster, more robust fusions.”
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This is a fascinating development. In my practice we've seen similar outcomes with the revised protocol. The key differentiator seems to be patient selection criteria. Has anyone else noticed the correlation with BMI thresholds?
Great point. I'd push back slightly on the conclusion, the sample size in the cited study is too small to draw population-level inferences. That said, the directional signal is compelling and worth a larger RCT.
We implemented a similar approach last year. Early results are promising but we're still gathering 12-month follow-up data. Happy to share our protocol if anyone is interested.
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