Sanara MedTech Inc. announced the election of Dr. Kenneth Thorpe and Ms. Ann Beal Salamone to Sanara’s Board of Directors. Kenneth E. Thorpe, Ph.D., is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy & Management, in the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. He was the Vanselow Professor of Health Policy and Director, Institute for Health Services Research at Tulane University. He was previously Professor of Health Policy and Administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; an Associate Professor and Director of the Program on Health Care Financing and Insurance at the Harvard University School of Public Health and Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Health at Columbia University. Ann Beal Salamone, M.S., who has focused on wound care since 1986, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and The Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science of Texas (TAMEST). She has developed products for electronics, water purification, personal care and healthcare and has invested in and served on the boards for several entrepreneurial companies as well as co-founded six companies. She is a co-founder of Rochal Industries LLC based in San Antonio, Texas, and one of the principal inventors of Rochal’s liquid bandages, antimicrobial compositions and skin regeneration products for burn and wound treatment.
Sanara Medtech Inc. is a medical technology company focused on developing and commercializing transformative technologies to improve clinical outcomes and reduce healthcare expenditures in the surgical, chronic wound and skincare markets. It markets several products for surgical and chronic wound care applications and has multiple products in its pipeline. Its surgical products, CellerateRX Surgical, TEXAGEN, BiFORM, ACTIGEN, ALLOCYTE, ALLOCYTE Plus Advanced Viable Bone Matrix (ALLOCYTE Plus), BIASURGE, FORTIFY TRG Tissue Repair Graft (FORTIFY TRG), and FORTIFY FLOWABLE Extracellular Matrix (FORTIFY FLOWABLE) are used in a range of surgical specialties to help promote patient healing and reduce the risk of complications. CellerateRX Surgical products, TEXAGEN products, FORTIFY TRG and FORTIFY FLOWABLE are used in specialties, including cardiothoracic, colorectal, general surgery, hand, head and neck, high-risk obstetrics and gynecology, Mohs surgery, neurosurgery, and others.