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George Vicatos

Business Owner - Director at ATTRI ORTHOPAEDICS PTY LTD (http://www.attri-orthopaedics.com)
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George Vicatos is a seasoned biomedical engineer with 39 years of experience, holding academic and professional positions, with expertise in thermodynamics, mechanical engineering, and research.
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Location
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, ZA
Languages
  • Greek Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English Professional working proficiency
Skills
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Thermodynamics
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Medical Devices
  • Science
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George Vicatos is a renowned biomedical engineer and academic, with a strong background in thermodynamics and mechanical engineering. As an Emeritus Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town, he has made significant contributions to the field of thermodynamics, with a focus on absorption refrigeration. His expertise extends to the design and development of medical devices and orthopaedic implants, with a particular emphasis on custom 3D-printed titanium implants.

Credentials

  • PhD in Mechanical Engineering
    University of Cape Town

Experience

  • ATTRI ORTHOPAEDICS PTY LTD (http://www.attri-orthopaedics.com)
    • City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
    • Business Owner - Director
      • Mar 2012 - Present
      • City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

      ATTRI is an independent, privately owned company, specialising on design, development and supply of medical devices and orthopaedic implants for limb salvage operations.Bone tumours, traumas, revisions and infections leave big deficits. ATTRI's strength is on custom 3D-printed titanium implants and on modular implants for an anatomical reconstruction of the missing part of the skeleton.

  • University of Cape Town
    • Cape Town, Rondebosch
    • Academic -Emeritus Associate Professor
      • Jan 1985 - Present
      • Cape Town, Rondebosch

  • ISIQU Orthopaedics PTY LTD
    • Cape Town
    • M.Director, Shareholder
      • Sep 2002 - Feb 2012
      • Cape Town

      The company became unmanageable and closed - for more information contact the writer.

  • Libexim (PTY) SA
    • Athens Greece
    • Marine Superitendent Engineer
      • 1980 - 1984
      • Athens Greece

      Designer of cargo ships, tankers and floating cement terminals. Collaboration with Kobe Shipyards in Japan.

  • Coulouthros / Embirikos Shipping
    • London UK
    • Superintendent Engineer
      • Jun 1979 - Dec 1980
      • London UK

      Supervising and responsible for 3 bulk-carriers (50,000-75000 tons capacity) and 2 tankers 125,000 tons capacity

Education

  • 1985 - 1995
    University of Cape Town
    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Thermodynamics - Absorption Refrigeration
  • 1979 - 1980
    Imperial College University of London
    MSc, Aeronautics and Fluid Dynamics
  • 1977 - 1978
    Newcastle University
    BSc, Marine Engineering
  • 1974 - 1977
    Newcastle University
    BSc, Mechanical-Electrical Engineering
  • 1997 -
    University of Cape Town
    Anatomy and Physiology

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