OTW POD Episode 16 - Orthopedic Driven Imaging

In this episode, TJ sits down with Scott Banks and Scott "Mac" McCaig, who are revolutionizing how surgeons understand and visualize joint motion.Scott Banks shares his remarkable 40-year journey from a Cleveland kid whose dad suffered through constant knee pain to becoming a pioneering biomechanics researcher at MIT and the University of Florida, and one of the rare non-surgeon members of the prestigious Knee Society. He recounts the pivotal 1989 moment when he first used fluoroscopy to capture knee motion in real-time, collaborating with orthopedic legends like Dick Laskin, Leo Whiteside, and Martin Roche to influence implant designs at companies from Mako to Smith & Nephew. At 60, facing a personal health scare, Banks made the bold decision to walk away from tenure to finally bring three decades of research out of academic journals and into clinical practice.Scott "Mac" McCaig brings the industry expertise to make that vision real, explaining how his journey from chemical engineering through Smith & Nephew, Wright Medical, and back again taught him that hardware in the OR is the key that tech giants like Google and Apple have been missing in healthcare. Together, they're building Orthopedic Driven Imaging (ODI), a company that has the ability to upgrade 23,000 C-arms across the country while developing AI-powered systems that capture how joints actually move during weight-bearing activities, not just static snapshots. They discuss their FDA-approved surgical imaging system already in use, their upcoming Academy debut of AI-enabled preoperative planning tools, and their bold prediction that within five years, surgeons will routinely prescribe dynamic kinematic exams the same way they order CT scans today, using digital twins to simulate procedures before ever entering the OR.To learn more about ODI, visit their website at https://linkly.link/2am6S.