Dr. Gary Friedlaender has been a director of BioMimetic's board of directors since September 2006. Dr. Friedlaender is Chief of the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Yale New Haven Hospital and Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at the Yale University School of Medicine. After earning his medical degree at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Dr. Friedlaender completed his general surgery internship and residency at the University of Michigan Medical Center, and his orthopaedic residency at the Yale New Haven Hospital and Newington Children's Hospital in Newington, Conn. He then completed a fellowship in musculoskeletal oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. During active duty in the U.S. Navy, he was Director of the Naval Medical Research Institute's Tissue Bank Division in Bethesda, Md., and has since served on various medical advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Friedlaender has received several research grants and written numerous articles related to orthopedic reconstruction and bone grafting. |