Over the past several decades, obesity has grown into a global pandemic.

With nearly 40 percent of adults worldwide classified as overweight or obese, obesity is to blame for dozens of debilitating diseases, increasing costs of healthcare, growing mortality rates and devastating indirect effects that impact the global economy. Fortunately, obesity is largely preventable and treatable.

Why truMED?

Marketplace Growth

COVID-19 has skyrocketed the need for and use of telehealth and digital health solutions.

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Founded in Science

Research shows that long-term bariatric success requires ongoing intervention and support.

State-of-the-Art Technology

The truMED solutions leverage specialized software that supports obesity management and bariatric care in new ways

Management

truMED is led by a team of professionals with decades of experience in the medical device industry with the support of a global team of medical and technology experts.

Kelly Ladner

CEO

Karen Whitaker

COO

Evan Wooldridge

CRO

Richard Creagh

European President

Darla Young

CFO

Clinical

Michael L. Green, Jr.

M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.S.M.B.S.

Nathaniel Lytle

M.D., F.A.C.S.

John Conneely

BSc., M Ch., F.R.C.S.I.

Parham Mora

M.D., F.A.C.S.

Advisory

Michael Gorton

Founder, Teladoc

Prof. Carel Le Roux

Chairman, SOPHIA

Ian Gargan

Founder, Imagine Health; CEO, PHIN

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Kelly Ladner, truMED CEO

Kelly has more than 17 years of experience in medical technologies with a heavy focus in surgical device sales, global market development for surgical robotics as well as advanced energy market penetration and its use in the O.R. He has consistently been a top performer for multiple healthcare organizations as well as leadership roles for elite specialty sales and training divisions. His wide range of experience coupled with a vast global network in the healthcare space is a fundamental piece to the leadership and success for truMED in this new and emerging market.

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Karen Whitaker

Karen has more than 15 years of experience in clinical care, sales, marketing, and clinical education. Karen is responsible for keeping truMED’s high-level strategy front and center while driving the day-to-day execution to ensure that goals are put into action.

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Evan Wooldridge

Evan’s career spans 17 years in healthcare with extensive sales and sales management experience in the surgical device market. He has a proven track record of successfully achieving plan and driving others to reach their full potential. Evan is responsible for building and leading sales and marketing efforts, while also building out truMED’s software applications.

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Richard Creagh

With nearly 20 years of experience in a variety of technology, medical device manufacturing, and healthcare companies, Richard will serve as truMED’s president of European operations. He has deep knowledge of neural networks, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

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Darla Young

Darla has more than 25 years of financial advisory experience serving a broad range of industries with an emphasis on profitability, business growth and strategic planning. As a CFO for a software development company for more than a decade, Darla worked with companies in varied spaces while proprietary software was in the early stages.

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Michael Green

Dr. Michael L. Green, Jr. is a board certified general surgeon with fellowship training in advanced laparoscopic general and bariatric surgery. He has been practicing for 18 years in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and has been instrumental in training medical professionals in the surgical setting. Dr. Green maintains multiple leadership roles at his local hospital and for various professional medical associations.

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Nahaniel Lytle

Dr. Nathaniel Lytle is a bariatric surgeon specializing in bariatric care, the treatment of diseases of the esophagus and stomach, complex hernia repairs and solid organ surgery. He is board certified in general surgery, a member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, a member of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the American Medical Association.

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Parham Mora

Dr. Parham Mora is a general surgery specialist with more than 30 years of experience in the medical field, providing both general and bariatric surgery services. A member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Medical Association of the State of Alabama (MASA), the Society of Laparoscopic Surgeons, the Autauga County Medical Society, Dr. Mora is board certified with the American Board of Surgery.

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John Conneely

Dr. John Barry Conneely is a consultant general surgeon specializing in foregut, hepatobiliary and metabolic surgery at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and the Mater Private Hospital, in Dublin, Ireland. He is an expert in minimally invasive hepatobiliary and bariatric surgery with additional expertise in abdominal transplantation, advanced surgical oncology and robotics.

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Michael Gorton

Michael Gorton is a successful serial entrepreneur who has created tens of billions of dollars in net worth from companies he started. A pioneer of telemedicine and digital health, he helped create what is becoming a trillion-dollar industry. He is a nationally recognized best-selling author.

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Carel Le Roux

Carel Le Roux is the chairman of the Stratification of Obese Phenotypes to Optimize Future Obesity Therapy (SOPHIA) and a world-renowned expert in metabolic medicine. He has more than 20 years of experience in metabolic research.

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Ian Gargan

Ian is a medical doctor, qualified psychologist, and the CEO of PHIN (Private Healthcare Information Network). Prior to PHIN, he was the founder, Chief Medical Officer, and CEO of Imagine Health, as well as a consultant medical practitioner and clinical psychologist.

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