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President, CEO & Founder
SPR
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Maria Bennett has been CEO of SPR since founding the company in 2010. Using years of experience in MedTech, Maria identified an unmet need for a non-opioid, non-surgical pain treatment. This innovation originated during her biomedical engineering graduate studies at Case Western Reserve University, where she developed a system to treat pain and also led R&D at an early stage company. During this experience, Maria discovered her passion for working with patients and physicians and witnessing life-changing results. From there, Maria was recruited to lead a team at Boston Scientific to conduct a large clinical trial, which demonstrated the safety and efficacy of an innovative angioplasty balloon and achieved FDA approval. Maria then returned to Cleveland to serve as VP of Clinical at NDI Medical. At NDI, she played a role in the development of a neurostim system addressing urinary incontinence, which was acquired by Medtronic. After NDI’s sale, Maria revisited her idea of a novel pain relief therapy, validated there was an unmet need, and founded SPR to commercialize SPRINT® PNS. She is the inventor of SPRINT, having multiple patents issued. Maria earned her BS in engineering management from Miami University (Ohio) and MS in biomedical engineering from Case.
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