Reykjavik, Iceland-based Össur announced that, effective September 1, it has acquired Medi Prosthetics, a global provider of mechanical lower limb prosthetic components located in Bayreuth, Germany, with total sales in 2015 of $17 million. Össur expects full integration of the business by 2017.

SmartCEO in September named Owings Mills, MD-based Board of Certification/Accreditation (BOC) President and CEO Claudia Zach­arias, MBA, CAE, a 2016 Circle of Excellence Award finalist.

Whitsett, NC-based medi USA announced in September that the compression therapy, orthopedics, spinal bracing, prosthetics, and foot care business has made a strategic investment in a sports medicine company, Topical Gear, headquartered in Lakeway, TX.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) in October announced that its CEO, Karen Hackett, will retire in April 2017. During her 14-year tenure as CEO, Hackett has overseen a staff of 250 employees, an annual budget of $60 million, and the opening of…

Atlanta-based Foot Solutions in September announced that Teresa Alpert, CO, CPed, has joined its Aurora, CO, location as director of education for pedorthics. In this role, Alpert works directly with healthcare professionals and their staffs. Before moving to Colorado she was in…

The principal investigator (PI) for a randomized controlled trial of Basking Ridge, NJ-based Ipsen Biopharmaceutical’s Dysport on September 22 reported extension study data on the botulinum toxin type A (ABO) for pediatric patients with cerebral palsy (CP) at the American Academy of…

Data from the Washington, DC-based American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists (AAOP)  in September indicate a number of health trends are continuing to increase demand for O&P practitioners and that robust employment opportunities continue in this sector, despite an overall…

London, UK-based Smith & Nephew’s single-use negative pressure wound therapy system can significantly improve outcome predictions and reduce complications after orthopedic surgery using Pico, according to randomized control trial data presented in September at the European Bone and Joint Infection conference in Oxford.

Gary Sayed, PhD, dean of the College of Health, Human Services, and Nursing at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) in October named Mark Muller, CPO, FAAOP, MS, the new chair of the university’s Department of Orthotics and Prosthetics.

Orchard Park, NY-based Curbell Plastics reported in September that it helped sponsor the Orthotics and Prosthetics Activities Foundation’s (OPAF) First Swim and First Dance events held in Dallas.

The Alexandria, VA-based American Physical Therapy Association’s (APTA) scientific journal, Physical Therapy (PTJ) is moving to “the next level” with its partnership with Oxford University Press (OUP), according to PTJ’s Editor-in-Chief, Alan Jette, PT, PhD, who published an editorial in the October issue describing the partnership.