Tobias “Toby” Buck, chairman, president, CEO and founder of Paragon Medical, Inc., is the new chair of the board of directors at OrthoWorx. Buck was one of the founding board members of OrthoWorx, and has served the organization in that capacity since 2009.
Tobias Buck: New Chair at OrthoWorx
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“We greatly appreciate the service and contributions made by our outgoing board chair, Jon Serbousek, who will remain on the board, ” said Sheryl Conley, president and CEO of OrthoWorx, in the August 26, 2015 news release. “Jon’s counsel and commitment to our region’s vitality have been extremely beneficial to our efforts. And we are very grateful to Toby Buck for taking on this expanded leadership role. Those who know Toby are well aware of his accomplishments in and commitment to our industry. He also has an outstanding record of personal and corporate contributions to our region and our state. He helped bring OrthoWorx to life and we look forward to his leadership of our board.
As indicated in the news release, “Buck is a graduate of Purdue University and The Harvard Executive Development Program as well as the MIT Birthing of Giants Program, a 3-year graduate certificate program. His educational background is in engineering and finance, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, respectively. He has worked for the past 30 years in three different markets: aerospace, automotive and the medical device and life science area.”
“He was named 1998 Entrepreneur of the Year for small manufacturing firms, and received the 2004 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the life sciences category for the State of Indiana. The Warsaw Kosciusko County Chamber of Commerce named him the 2006 Man of the Year and he and Paragon Medical were selected for the Kosciusko Economic Development Corporation’s 2012 Innovation and Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame.”
Buck told OTW, “OrthoWorx has made tremendous progress since 2009 in education, workforce development and university engagement, so the first task is to make sure we continue to drive initiatives that build on that foundation. Beyond that, we’ve started some promising work in capitalizing on the talent and technical resources in our area to expand innovation and entrepreneurship and we believe that can be key for our industry and for the State of Indiana.”
According to its website, OrthoWorx is a community-based initiative that works closely with the orthopedic industry and other stakeholders in order to ensure that the Warsaw, Indiana region benefits from its position as “The Orthopedic Capital of the World.”
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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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