About us

ATRO Medical’s team constantly commits itself to lessen chronic joint pain. It’s our mission to improve the quality of life of knee patients. Our artificial meniscus is designed to contributed to normal daily life without knee pain.

Vision and mission

ATRO Medical is founded with the objective to make a change through cooperation & perseverance. Our innovations contribute to preservation of the knee joint. These new treatment options need to be accessible for both surgeons and patients. Therefore, we’re ahead in contact with insurances before the product is available on the shelf.

Our solutions are:

  • Safety: based on elaborate studies and research.

  • Simplicity: the operations follow surgical intuition. 

  • Durability: the artificial meniscus offers a solution for a minimum of 5 years. 

  • Effectiveness: Lessening of pain and improvement of mobility as main objective.

  • Economical: We’re currently working on a compensation through insurances.

Our values

ATRO Medical has a very open character. All employees contribute on their own way to the organizations’ success. Together we have built our most essential values, which are:

Reliability

We’re an organization on which you can build on. We work with integrity, deliver quality and are transparent about our results. 

Innovation

We’re innovative and find ourselves on undiscovered territory. This often offers new insights during unexpected situations which requires a lot of flexibility. 

Collaboration

We’re open to all input that contributes to the success of our meniscus. We’re professional, multidisciplinary and believe in diversity as innovational strength.

Meet the people behind Artimis®

Tony van Tienen

CEO / CMO - Management team

Creator of the artificial meniscus and our orthopedic knee specialist.

Maarten van der Zanden

CIO Management team

As Chief Implementations Officer, Maarten navigates the route to patients and financial resources.

Anita Brinks

COO - Management team

Our Chief Operations Officer, she keeps track on our projects and manages all our operational businesses.

Branco van Minnen

QA Manager & Biomechanical Engineer

QA manager from the very beginning and indispensable for our quality management and product development.

José Lugies

Clinical Field Director

As Clinical Field Director, she is a reliable link towards the clinics as well as the social link in our innovative machine.

Albert van der Veen

Senior Scientist

Our Senior Scientist, he isn’t afraid to take up a technical challenge and solve the problems related to it.

Thijmen Struik

Clinical Development Director

Our Biomechanical Engineer and mastermind in the field of clinical research. He manages that our pre-clinical work and clinical proof strengthen each other.

Meet the board

Michiel Schwartz

Chair of the Supervisory Board, representing MT

Evan Castiglia

Representing Thuja Capital

Lex Giltaij

Representing BOM and OOSTNL

Adriaan Hart-de Ruijter

Representing Cascara Ventures

Sven Kempers

Representing 819 Capital

We work together with partners from various fields

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