Jack C. Griffis III, M.S., is the Senior Vice President of Advanced Research and Technology at MedShape, Inc., an Atlanta-based orthopaedic device company. He is the recipient of five national design excellence awards in medical device engineering and has cleared more than 50 different medical technologies with the FDA. In 2013, he was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors, and has been awarded 39 US patents in biomedical technologies. Mr. Griffis received his M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.