Adjunct Partners


Dr. Gertner is currently President and CEO of Oraya Therapeutics, a company he founded from within the Essex Woodlands partnership in 2006. He is a board certified general surgeon, an entrepreneur, an engineer and a patent agent. In addition to Oraya and Essex, Dr. Gertner is an adjunct professor of surgery at Stanford University, a consultant, to the Biodesign Program at Stanford and a consulting trauma surgeon at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose.

Dr. Gertner completed a BS and an MS in mechanical engineering from Columbia and MIT and attended medical school at Cornell where he graduated at the top of his class and was elected to AOA. He then attended UCSF through a chief residency in General Surgery, finishing in 2004 and subsequently becoming board certified. Dr. Gertner is the primary author of over 75 issued or pending patents and has published many peer reviewed articles as well as delivered numerous national and international presentations in the fields of surgical innovation and medical devices. In addition to Oraya, Dr. Gertner is the co-founder of Medlogics Device Corporation, Allux Medical and Minimus Surgical Systems. He also serves on the board of directors of Nellix Endovascular.
 
   
 

MANAGING DIRECTORS 
SENIOR ADVISORS
PARTNERS
ADJUNCT PARTNERS
 C. Thomas Caskey, MD
 
Nicolas Chronos, MD
 
Phyllis Gardner, MD
 
Michael Gertner, MD
 Lisa Ricciardi


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