Industry Relationship

Reading Shoulder Unit surgeons and scientists may collaborate with the pharmaceutical or medical device industries to help develop medical breakthroughs or provide medical expertise or education. Reading Shoulder Unit strives to make scientific advances that will benefit patient care and support outside relationships that promise public benefit. In order for the discoveries of Reading Shoulder Unit surgeons' and scientists' laboratories and investigations to benefit the public, these discoveries must be commercialised in partnership with industry. As experts in their fields, Reading Shoulder Unit surgeons and scientists are often sought after by industry to consult, provide expertise and education.

To assure professional and commercial integrity in such matters, Reading Shoulder Unit maintains a program that reviews these collaborations and, when appropriate, puts measures in place to minimize bias that may result from ties to industry.

The Reading Shoulder Unit publicly discloses the names of companies when:

• its surgeons/scientists receive payment for speaking and consulting,
• its surgeons/scientists receive or have the right to receive royalties or
• its surgeons/ scientists hold any equity interest for the physician's/scientist's role as inventor, discoverer, developer, founder or consultant.*

In publicly disclosing this information, the Reading Shoulder Unit tries to provide information as accurately as possible about its surgeons' and scientists' connections with industry.

Prof. Ofer Levy is consultant and member of the scientific advisory board for the following companies:

• Collplant
• Innovative Design Orthopaedics
• Minivasive
• Estar-Medical

Prof. Ofer Levy receives or has the right to receive royalty payments for inventions or discoveries commercialized through the companies shown below:

• Innovative Design Orthopaedics
• Estar-Medical

Prof. Ofer Levy owns stock or stock options in the following companies for activities as a founder, inventor, discover, developer:

• Collplant
• Innovative Design Orthopaedics
• Minivasive