Drilling into Orthopaedics with Mr Ulrich Bühner

Stryker Corporation is a multinational company listed on the Fortune 500 with over 43,000 staff globally. Stryker was founded in 1941 by an orthopaedic surgeon Dr Homer Stryker in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where their headquarters remain today. Stryker are one of the world's leading medical technology companies and offer a range of medical, orthopaedic, and neurosurgical products and services designed to help improve patient and hospital outcomes. Today I am joined by Mr Ulrich Bühner the Chief Engineer in Research & Development of Stryker’s Asia Pacific region, specialising in Orthopaedic Oncology and Robotics. Uli is a specialist in Product Development, Launch, and Lifecycle Management, as well as Medical Device Software.

 

History of Stryker: https://www.stryker.com/au/en/about/history.html

 

Mako SmartRobotics: https://www.stryker.com/us/en/joint-replacement/systems/Mako_SmartRobotics_Overview.html

 

Can Robot-Assisted Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Be Cost-Effective? A Markov Decision Analysis: https://www.arthroplastyjournal.org/article/S0883-5403(15)00913-4/fulltext

 

Just in time implants: https://www.imcrc.org/just-in-time-implants/