Leadership Team
Chris Green
Co-Founder & CEO
Chris Green is a native of Birmingham, Alabama and currently serves that community by being a part of the UAB Trauma Center. At this time, Chris covers the post operative clinic, TIBICU, and Trauma bay care in the Emergency Room. For several years, he has taught Trauma Care to residents and has actively participated ASOP Training to assist the Delta Special Forces in their recertification to obtain their needed CEU requirements. Alongside his time spent in Trauma, Chris spent 24 years, now retired, harvesting organs for the Alabama Organ Center (Legacy of Hope) providing him of his knowledge of anatomy.
James "Jimbo" Stewart
RN , Co-Founder
James “Jimbo” Stewart is an Alabama native who proudly served as a Hospital Corpsman in the US Navy from 1984 to 1987. He is presently the Nurse Navigator for the Center of Excellence Orthopedics and Spine in Cullman, Alabama. The expanse of his career has given him invaluable experience in the Emergency Room, Pre-Op, PACU, Operating Room, Flight Nursing and Long Term Acute Care. James “Jimbo” Stewart’s passion for improving patient outcomes in all areas of care is the driving reason that he and Chris Green created this tourniquet
Dr. Andy Barr
Chief Technology Officer
Andy is an electronics engineer with a PhD in BioEngineering. He is a co-inventor of the Smart Tourniquet and his primary contribution to this invention has been the pioneering application of strain-gauge plethysmography to the tourniquet sensory apparatus. He is also the owner of Marturion Electronics Inc (a Georgia based company) which has developed all the electronics and firmware for the existing prototype devices.
His early career was within the Queen’s University of Belfast Department of Orthopaedic Surgery within Musgrave Park Hospital under Professor RAB Mollan. In this tenure he was part of a team that successfully introduced the use of strain-gauge plethysmography of the calf as a tool to screen all patients post-operatively for the onset of DVT.
He left that company to found Marturion in 2001 as a ISO13485 certified business providing specialist design and manufacturing services to the medical device industry. Marturion has a wealth of experience in the development of many products and is a supplier of both design and manufacturing services to many medical device companies. Of specific relevance to this invention, Marturion has invested over a decade working with non-invasive blood pressure technology.
Andy has brought together his understanding of plethysmography together with his years of experience with NIBP in order to innovate this new approach to safe determination of LOP – primarily intending to ensure at all times an optimum selection of tourniquet pressure to prevent bleeding in emergency treatment.
Dr. Ashish Shah
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Shah is a Board-Certified Orthopedic Surgeon specializing in Foot and Ankle Surgery. He is a Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Director of the Alabama Foot and Ankle Fellowship Program & UAB Orthopaedic Research Fellowship Program. Dr. Shah has published more than 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals, serves as a director of the UAB orthopedic international education program, and has trained more than 50 international orthopedic surgeons. He is also the co-founder of a multi location pediatric urgent care, Secopp, and several medical innovations
Dr. Viral Jain
MD, FAAOS, Medical Advisor
Dr. Jain is a Board-Certified Orthopedic surgeon who is fellowship trained in in pediatric orthopedics and spine surgery. He works at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital as a pediatric spine and trauma surgeon. He is also an Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati USA. Dr. Jain has published numerous papers, wrote a number of book chapters and has presented his research on podium both nationally and internationally. Furthermore, Dr. Jain has been an invited speaker at many national and international meetings. He is also well versed with technology and its interaction with human experience. Dr. Jain has experience as a subject matter expert during product planning and development for medical devices, as well as with clinical trials.
Thurmon Ballard
Business Development Manager
Thurman Ballard is an orthopedic and healthcare industry executive with nearly 30 years of experience. He has held leadership roles at such global device companies as Tornier, Acumed, MicroAire and Smith & Nephew. In the last decade Thurman has led startups companies Conventus Orthopaedics, and GeneAlign and also co-founded Prescient Logistics, dba., RepScrubs, Inc. Thurman is currently the General Manager and Vice President of Sales for Pristine Surgical.
