R. Dan Allen

Current Position:

Consultant in the surgical device industry
Newbury, Ohio

Experience:

Mr. Allen received his BFA from Kent State University and in 1976 began a career long commitment to the study of anatomy and physiology relating to surgical patient posturing and positioning.

Mr. Allen has been involved in the development, pioneering and marketing of innovative OR devices, posturing equipment, pressure management and pressure sore prevention products during his 30 year career in the medical device industry. Mr. Allen is the inventor of the Allen Universal Stirrup and the founder of Allen Medical Systems. A number of his product concepts have been the topic of more than 90 published clinical articles and appear in a number of English and foreign language surgical textbooks.

Mr. Allen is recognized as an authority on patient positioning and pressure management in the operating room. He has addressed a number of groups of OR nurses, surgeons and hospital staff in North America, Europe, Australia, Japan, Brazil and South Africa on those topics. He was an educational speaker at the 2005 AORN Congress and is frequently asked by regional and state AORN chapters to present his programs.

During the last six years he has consulted on a global basis with surgical table companies and table accessory manufacturers to research, develop and commercialize innovative pressure management, patient posturing and patient posturing devices.

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