Medacta International announced that effective immediately S. Raymond Golish, MD, PhD, MBA will serve as Medical Director of the Medacta USA Spine Division. Dr. Golish will support company's U.S. subsidiary in its spine product development and commercial activities, helping the company expand uponits culture of collaboration, clinical excellence, and evidence-based and patient-centric innovation. Dr. Golish is a fellowship-trained spinal surgeon, medical device and data scientist, and experienced healthcare administrator and executive. He currently acts as Medical Director of Spinal Surgery and of Clinical Trials at Jupiter Medical Center (Jupiter, Florida) and is a practicing spinal surgeon at Florida Spine Center in Palm Beach, Florida. He serves as Chairman of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Biomedical Engineering Committee and Chairman and Director of the Board for the Research Committee of the North American Spine Foundation. From 2012 to 2016, he was a voting member on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Panel. Dr. Golish received his PhD and MD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He completed his spinal surgery fellowship at Stanford University in 2010 and received his MBA from Duke University in 2013.