Our Team

  • Kiran Agarwal-Harding, MD, MPH

    FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT

    Kiran is an orthopedic trauma surgeon at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Director of the Harvard Global Orthopaedics Collaborative.

  • Andrew Deagon

    VP ENGINEERING

    Andrew is an engineer and received his degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.

  • Diana Orlandi

    VP STRATEGY

    Diana is a management consultant with Bain & Company and received her MBA from Stanford University.

  • Nikki Mukkala

    VP PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

    Nikki is a program manager and engineer with a passion for new product development, guiding hardware products from the initial concept to launch.

  • Kaveh Momenzadeh, MD

    VP RESEARCH & TESTING

    Kaveh is a physician-scientist and post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Advanced Orthopaedic Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

  • Sara al-Zubi

    VP OPERATIONS

    Sara is a MD/MPP candidate at Harvard and a former U.S. Country Ambassador to the United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs Asia.

  • Sam Simister, MD, MBA

    VP MARKETING

    Sam is an MD/MBA graduate from the University of Utah. He spent ten years working in medical software prior to medical school and is now working as a post-doctorate research fellow.

  • Soheil Ashkani-Esfahani, MD, PhD

    VP EDUCATION & DIGITAL MEDIA

    Soheil is a faculty member of orthopaedic surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Foot & Ankle Research and Innovation Lab (FARIL) at Massachusetts General Hospital.

  • Lahin Amlani

    RESEARCH

    Lahin is a medical student at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and earned a degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan.

  • Iryna Ivasyk, MD, PhD

    DEVELOPMENT

    Iryna is an orthopaedic surgery resident at Duke University. She received her MD from Cornell and her PhD from Rockefeller University.

  • Ravi Pamnani

    REGULATION & SAFETY

    Ravi is an engineer by training, with a passion for improving healthcare through medical device and biopharmaceutical innovation. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Intact Therapeutics.

Advisory Board

  • Edward K Rodriguez MD, PhD

    Dr. Rodriguez is an orthopaedic trauma surgeon and Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

  • Ara Nazarian, PhD

    Dr. Nazarian is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School, the Vice-Chair of Research, and Director of the Musculoskeletal Translational Innovation Initiative at the Carl J. Shapiro Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

  • Joia S. Mukherjee, MD, MPH

    Dr. Mukherjee is the Chief Medical Officer of the international medical charity founded by Dr. Paul Farmer, Partners In Health, and an Associate Professor and Director of Masters in Medical Science in Global Health Delivery at Harvard Medical School.

  • George SM Dyer, MD

    Dr. Dyer is an Orthopaedic hand and upper extremity surgeon at the Brigham & Women's Hospital, Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at Harvard Medical School, and the former Director of the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program.

  • Tarun Khanna

    Dr. Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School and co-founder of Aspire Institute.

  • Dankward Hoentzsch, MD

    AEFIX ADVISOR

    Dr. Hoentzsch is a retired trauma surgeon of the Trauma Center and University Hospital Tuebingen, Germany with extensive experience in all kinds of osteosynthesis, education, and orthopaedic device development.

  • Lia Winter

    Mrs. Winter is CEO and co-founder of Winter Innovations. She founded a medical device startup after personal experiences helped her identify the opportunity to improve outcomes in orthopedic surgery.

  • David Mou, MD, MBA

    Dr. Mou is CEO of Cerebral, a telehealth company focused on clinical quality and patient safety that has improved the lives of over 400,000 people.

  • Aron Lechtig, MD

    Dr. Lechtig was born, raised, and medically trained in Venezuela; he is now an orthopaedic surgery resident at Harvard.

  • Christina Barau Dejean Soray, MD

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: HAITI

    Dr. Soray is an orthopedic trauma surgeon and assistant academic director at the University Hospital of La Paix and Pediatrics orthopedics at the St. Vincent Hospital for Children with disabilities in Haiti.

  • Pierre Marie Woolley, MD

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: HAITI

    Dr. Woolley is an orthopaedic trauma surgeon, fellowship-trained in Trauma Pelvic and Acetabular surgery and reconstruction, and associate professor at HUP La Paix University Hospital, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

  • Henry Ndasi, MD

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: CAMEROON

    Dr. Ndasi is an orthopaedic and general surgeon, as well as the Chief Medical Officer at Baptist Hospital Mutengene in Cameroon.

  • Viktor Rokutov, MD, PhD

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: UKRAINE

    Dr. Rokutov is an orthopaedic surgeon at Dnipro Clinical Hospital of Urgent Medical Care and the Chief of Pediatric Orthopaedics department at Dnipro Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital.

  • Metasebia Worku Abebe, MD

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: ETHIOPIA

    Dr. Abebe is a Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon at Saint Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

  • Mengistu G. Mengesha, MD

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: ETHIOPIA

    Dr. Mengesha is an orthopaedic surgeon at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia.

  • Leonard Ngoie Banza, MBBS

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: MALAWI

    Dr. Banza is an orthopaedic surgeon at Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi.