Titan Medical Adds to Board of Directors

Titan Medical Inc. has appointed Bruce Giles Wolff, M.D., to its Board of Directors. Wolff is a professor of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Emeritus Chair of the Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Wolff has been a member of the Mayo Clinic’s Surgical Administrative Committee since 2006. He is a former president of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, a former director and president of the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery, and a former vice president and director of the Foundation for Surgical Fellowships.

Wolff has written extensively on colon and rectal surgery issues, penning nearly 300 articles for such publications as The American Journal of Surgery, the Canadian Journal of Surgery, the World Journal of Surgery, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, America Surgeon, the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, Annals of Surgery and the British Journal of Surgery. Wolff received his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine and interned and completed his residency at the New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center. He received a fellowship from the Mayo Clinic in 1981-82 and since then he has taught and practiced medicine at the Mayo Clinic.

“I am delighted that such a renowned medical professional such as Dr. Wolff has agreed to be a director on Titan’s Board of Directors. He has a wealth of expertise and experience in the colon and rectal surgery field, which will be of great benefit to Titan,” Titan CEO John Hargrove said.

Based in Toronto, Canada, Titan Medical is developing a robotic surgical system for use in minimally invasive surgery. The company’s Single Port Orifice Robotic Technology, SPORT Surgical System comprises a surgeon-controlled robotic platform that includes a 3-D vision system and interactive instruments for performing MIS procedures, and a workstation that provides the surgeon with an interface to the robotic platform for controlling the interactive instruments and providing a 3-D endoscopic view of inside a patient’s body during MIS procedures.

The SPORT Surgical System is being designed to expand robotic surgery into areas of surgical specialties and simple and complex procedures that currently are under-serviced, and to allow surgeons to perform procedures within small to medium-size surgical spaces such as general surgery and cholecystectomy.