Primary Job Title Founder & CSO Primary Organization 
CrossCoat Medical
Location Lexington, Kentucky, United States Regions Southern US Gender Male
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Tom Hedman is a Senior Principal Scientist at Spinal Simplicity. Tom previously worked at Crosscoat Medical as a Founder and CSO. He attended the University of Strathclyde and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tom Hedman, PhD., Orthopeutics’ founder and Intralink Spine’s CSO, has been involved in orthopedic research and development since 1983,
with a focus on soft-tissue biomechanics since 1985. His graduate bioengineering training was at MIT and the University of Strathclyde. Dr. Hedman is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Kentucky.
Dr. Hedman is a recognized pioneer in the spine field with over 30 years of experience in both the academic and entrepreneurial realms. He has made over 100 presentations at national and international conferences and has over 65 peer-reviewed published articles. He is a reviewer for U.S. NIH grants and various technical journals.
He has been active in interdisciplinary research training of medical students and residents, and has been the thesis committee chair for 12 Masters and PhD students. He currently has more than 20 issued or pending patents, beginning with the first of its kind “2nd generation” disc replacement device issued in 1988.
