Online webinar "Superior Spine Care with a Patient-Specific Biomechanical Digital Twin of the Spineā€¯ Host: Roger Assaker, Co-founder & CEO of MDsim
Online Avicenna Alliance webinar "Superior Spine Care with a Patient-Specific Biomechanical Digital Twin of the Spine"
12 Nov 2024, 5:00-6:00pm CET
Bio
Roger Assaker is an accomplished aerospace engineer with a PhD in Computational Mechanics. After starting his career as an R&D engineer at Goodyear's tech center in Luxembourg, he pursued an MBA while working. In 2003, he founded e-Xstream engineering, a leader in advanced material modeling, which he grew to the top of the industry before selling it to MSC Software in 2012. Assaker became CEO of MSC in 2020 and later founded MDsim, a medtech company focused on AI-driven spinal care. He is also an active business angel, investing in multiple startups and is on the board of medtech and non medtech startups.
In his private time Roger is passionate for outdoor sports!
Abstract
Aging, Scoliosis, Osteoporosis, ā€¦ causes the spine to degenerate and to deform. The clinical solution is spine fusion. A complex and costly surgical procedure that require revision 30 to 40% of the time.
The presentation will introduce SPINEsim, a SaMD developed by MDsim to generate a patient-specific biomechanical digital twin of the spine that can be used by spine surgeons to plan the optimal spine surgery that respects geometric alignment and predict the mechanical balance of the construct.
