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President and Senior Clinical Director
Arm Dynamics
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As the founder, president and senior clinical director of Arm Dynamics, John dedicated
his career to positively transforming prosthetic rehabilitation for people with upper limb
loss. He innovated a model of care that places each patient at the center of a
multidisciplinary team of experienced upper limb prosthetists, occupational and physical
therapists, technicians and insurance reimbursement specialists. The team provides
holistic patient assessments, comprehensive accelerated fittings and individualized
prosthetic training, enabling patients to achieve dramatic and measurable improvements
in comfort, wear time and functional ability. John's advanced socket designs for all levels
of upper limb loss allows Arm Dynamics to leverage emerging technologies to achieve
optimal patient outcomes that were not possible with previous socket designs. He brings
over 32 years of clinical and management experience in upper limb prosthetic
rehabilitation services and oversees the Company's operations.
John is experienced in building and managing collaborative teams, both within Arm
Dynamics and with outside research partners. He has facilitated numerous successful
scientific collaborations involving pattern recognition, implantable controls, multiarticulating
hands and other new technologies. His extensive expertise and involvement
in a range of international research projects led to the Company's appointment as a sole
source provider of upper limb prosthetic services at Walter Reed National Military Medical
Center, in 2003 until 2014. John led the Arm Dynamics team of upper limb specialists and
developed the military care model for upper extremity prosthetic rehabilitation at Walter
Reed National Military Medical Center. He is engaged in a range of research and
development initiatives with the Department of Defense, DARPA, FDA, Cleveland Clinic,
and prosthetic component designers and manufacturers around the world. He is
recognized nationally and internationally for his presentations with over 20 peer-reviewed
publications on innovative care techniques, interface designs, emerging technology,
prosthetic care for military amputees, and novel outcome measures for people with upper
limb loss. John is a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists with
Distinction (FAAOP-D) and received the AAOP Clinical Creativity Award in 2017. He
completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Southern California and
received his prosthetics certificate from Northwestern University.
