Industry Relationships and Conflict of Interest

As our name suggests, our providers and employees are actively involved in clinical care, education, and orthopedic research.  Because of our mission, we focus our recruitment efforts on physicians who have superior academic and clinical training, and who also are actively involved in orthopedic research and education directed at advancing orthopedic surgery and improving patient outcomes.  Information about our physicians’ education, training and experience can be accessed at www.thecoreinstitute.com.

Because of the qualifications of our physicians and other professionals, we often are approached by companies involved in or related to the improvement of the healthcare outcomes, processes, management in the healthcare industry and/or development of medical devices, instruments, and related equipment. Many of these companies know that our physicians have invaluable hands-on experience in the treatment of orthopedic problems, and that orthopedic surgeons frequently make important contributions to the development and improvement of devices and other equipment used in the treatment of orthopedic conditions. Surgeons and researchers at The CORE Institute are currently working with various companies, both large and very small, to help them create and improve products for patient care. We also have developed and patented products of our own that we have and/or will license or sell to industry.   Although CORE physicians donate a great deal of their time to the advancement of orthopedic research and education, they also enter into contracts that provide payment for some of their efforts and/or have an indirect ownership interest in certain industry companies. All these transactions are compliant with all federal and state laws.   The following is a current list of the CORE physicians who have contractual relationships or ownership interests (direct or indirect) with other healthcare related industry companies:

Provider Name Industry Relationship Website
Damon Adamany, MD Arthrex, Inc. www.arthrex.com
  Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. www.endo.com
Michael Amini, MD Stryker Orthopaedics www.stryker.com
  Restor3D www.restor3d.com
Ali Araghi, DO Globus Medical www.globusmedical.com
  ISOI N/A
  SIVantage www.sivantage.net
  Stryker Orthopaedics www.stryker.com
John Brown, MD Catalyst www.catalystortho.com
  Stryker Orthopaedics www.stryker.com
Mark Campbell, MD Arthrex, Inc. www.arthrex.com
  NovoSource www.novosource.com
Anuj Daftari, MD Peleton Surgical www.peletonsurgical.com
Amalia DeComas, MD Guidepoint www.guidepoint.com
Niloofar Dehghan, MD Exactech www.exac.com
  Stryker Orthopaedics www.stryker.com
  Surgeon Design Center www.surgeondesigncenter.com
Melissa Galli, DPM Conventus Flower Orthopedics www.flowerortho.com
  Stryker Orthopaedics www.stryker.com
  Zimmer Biomet www.zimmerbiomet.com
Jessica Hepburn, PA-C Medtronic www.medtronic.com
David Jackson, MD Alphatec Spine www.atecspine.com
David J. Jacofsky, MD Stryker Orthopaedics www.stryker.com
Marc Jacofsky, PhD Stryker Orthopaedics www.stryker.com
William Kesto, MD Exactech www.exac.com
David Markel, MD Smith + Nephew www.smith-nephew.com
  Stryker Orthopaedics www.stryker.com
Eamonn Mahoney, MD Globus Medical www.globusmedical.com
  Medtronic www.medtronic.com
Jose Menendez, MD MetOne Spinal Technologies www.met1tech.com
Sarah Muller, PA-C Stryker Orthopaedics www.stryker.com
  Smith + Nephew www.smith-nephew.com
Steven L. Myerthall, MD Stryker Orthopaedics www.stryker.com
Tony Nguyen, MD Arthrex www.arthrex.com
Michael Rose, MD Arthrex, Inc. www.arthrex.com
Benjamin Pomerantz, MD Penumbra, Inc. www.penumbrainc.com
Jason Scalise, MD LIMACORPORATE S.p.A www.lima.it
Ryan Scott, DPM Avanos www.avanosmedicaldevices.com
  Medline www.medline.com
  Stryker Orthopaedics www.stryker.com
Scott Siverhus, MD DJO Global www.djoglobal.com
Paul Sousa, MD Smith + Nephew www.smith-nephew.com
Tharesh Udupa, DPM Abbvie www.abbvie.com
Byron Willis, MD Stryker Orthopaedics www.stryker.com

Many of our Physicians have an indirect ownership in The CORE Institute Specialty Hospital, a Physician owned hospital, https://www.thecoreinstitutehospital.com/, Banner Surgery Center – Union Hills, Elevation Surgery Center, Sunrise Ambulatory Surgery Center, Tri-City Surgery Center, Bone and Joint Surgery Center of Novi, and Lakes Surgery Center.