David Boone

Biography

 Dr. David Boone, CP, MPH, Ph.D. co-founded OrthoCare Innovations, LLC in 2007 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer and President. Dr. Boone has spent the past twenty years as an innovator, developer, researcher and instructor in rehabilitation and bioengineering. A frequent lecturer at academic medical centers on a range of prosthetic and rehabilitation topics and a widely published author, he is credited with multiple technology patents, including a foot scanning technology that was licensed to Nike. Recently, in the field of prosthetics, he was the inventor and lead developer with the support of the National Institutes of Health of two new patent pending alignment technologies: Compas™ and RoboPAL. He also was the principal developer of a range of innovative lower limb prosthetics products and technologies that were sold and/or licensed via Orthocare’s partnership with ottobock. He began his work in prosthetics and prosthetic research under the direction of a pioneer in the field, Dr. Ernest Burgess and assumed leadership of Dr. Burgess' lab, Prosthetic Research Study (PRS) in Seattle. He serves as a Director of Orthocare Innovations, LLC and modus health llc. Dr. Boone was named Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics by the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists. Dr. Boone received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and became one of fewer than ten American Ph.D.s with formal training and clinical experience in prosthetics.

Research Interest

 Development and implementation of STEM outreach programs -Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 (IGF1) signaling in breast cancer -Regulation and function of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) -Transcription and transcriptomics -Breast cancer biology