Wednesday, July 10, 2013
When
Armen
Bakirtzian
was
a
fourth-year
mechatronics
engineering
student
at
the
University
Waterloo,
he
began
work
on
a
tool
that
would
help
orthopedic
surgeons
like
his
own
father
align
joints
more
accurately.
Bakirtzian
and
his
fellow
classmates,
Richard
Fanson
and
Andre
Hladio,
wanted
to
design
technology
that
would
avoid
misalignment
which
leads
to
pain
and
more
surgery
for
patients. Upon
graduation,
the
three
launched
Avenir
Medical
Inc.
and
now
the
technology
they
created,
PelvAssistTM,
will
be
in
the
hands
of
a
select
group
of
surgeons
next
year.
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