Andover Medical, Inc. Announces that it has formed an Orthopedic Advisory Board.ANDOVER, Mass. -- Andover Medical, Inc. (AMI), (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :ADOV.OB) announced today that Kenneth Alleyne, MD and Mr. William Tobin will be co-chairmen of its newly formed Orthopedic Advisory Board, whose purpose is to assist the Company in identifying strategic market opportunities and how best to address them. About Kenneth Alleyne, MD Dr. Alleyne founded Eastern Orthopedics and Sports Medicine sports medicine, branch of medicine concerned with physical fitness and with the treatment and prevention of injuries and other disorders related to sports. Knee, leg, back, and shoulder injuries; stiffness and pain in joints; tendinitis; "tennis elbow"; and with the philosophy of practice "patient first." That concept leads him to continually strive to provide his patients with the latest operative and non-operative orthopedic treatments. As a three-season athlete and graduate of Williams College, he began his interest in sports medicine. He attended the Wake Forest University School of Medicine Wake Forest University School of Medicine, along with North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Physicians, is part of the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center system. focusing on orthopedicsCoobserving the university sports medicine service and participating in research projects. He completed fellowships at the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, working to develop new substances to encourage the growth of bone and cartilage; and Yale University, where he studied sports medicine/shoulder and knee surgery and acted as team physician for the football and track teams. He completed his residency at Howard University Hospital. His practice focuses on operative and non-operative problems of the shoulder and knee including arthroscopic surgery Arthroscopic Surgery Definition Arthroscopic surgery is a procedure to visualize, diagnose, and treat joint problems. The name is derived from the Greek words arthron, which means joint, and skopein, which means to look at. . He serves on the clinical faculty at the Yale School of Medicine/VA Service where he teaches residents on the management of shoulder and knee problems. Dr. Alleyne also undertakes the sports medicine problems of children and adolescents, as well as the operative and non-operative management of fractures. He has attending privileges at Rockville General Hospital, Manchester Memorial Hospital and St. Francis Hospital St. Francis Hospital may refer to:
About William Tobin Mr. Tobin is president and founder of O.R.Specialities ("ORS ORS oral rehydration salts. Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) A liquid preparation developed by the World Health Organization that can decrease fluid loss in persons with diarrhea. "), an orthopedic surgical equipment distribution organization. ORS distributes to hospitals and surgery centers in the markets of Long Island, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , southern New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of state, Northern New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and western Massachusetts. It provides on site technical service and consults with customers on everything from start up surgery centers to design of state of the art operating rooms. It also consults with surgeon customers on technical surgical procedures, as well as providing extensive training venues for multiple aspects of orthopedic medicine. Mr. Tobin is also a managing Partner of Ortho-Medical Products, Inc., a full service durable medical equipment Durable medical equipment is a term of art used to describe certain Medicare benefits, that is, whether Medicare may pay for the item. The item is defined by Title XVIII the Social Security Act: or·thot·ic adj. Of or relating to orthotics. and prosthetic pros·thet·ic adj. 1. Serving as or relating to a prosthesis. 2. Of or relating to prosthetics. prosthetic serving as a substitute; pertaining to prostheses or to prosthetics. company that services the markets of New York State, Northern New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and western Massachusetts. AMI previously announced signing a letter of intent to acquire Ortho-Medical Products, Inc. About Andover Medical, Inc. Andover Medical, Inc. (AMI) is building a single source provider of orthopedic, podiatric and urological durable medical equipment (DME (Distributed Management Environment) A network monitoring and control protocol defined by the Open Software Foundation (now The Open Group). DME was not widely used. DME - Distributed Management Environment ) and incontinence treatment solutions. The Company intends to establish a nationwide subsidiary network and plans to offer physicians the largest selection of competitively priced brand-name durable medical equipment, and urodynamic diagnostic and treatment products. For more information, please call (978) 557-1001 or visit www.andovermedical.com. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release are forward-looking statements. These forward looking statements include plans to offer physicians the largest selection of competitively priced brand-name durable medical equipment, and urodynamic diagnostic and treatment products. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance, achievements or transactions of AMI and its affiliates to be materially different from any future results, performance, achievements or transactions expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors which, could impact the Company and the forward-looking statements contained herein are included in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company assumes no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that become untrue because of subsequent events. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion