Giora Bernat, CEO is an experienced entrepreneur and senior executive. He was the founder and CEO of Sightline technologies, a medical device company in the field of gastroenterology. Sightline successfully raised $27M and was sold to Stryker for $150M. Mr. Bernat served as CEO of MST, a robotic laparoscopic company; Medic Vision Medical, a software company that developed an automatic brain CT diagnostic software; and has served as chairman for other medical companies. He holds a B.A in business management from Haifa University and a practical engineering degree from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.


Dr. Lev Diamant, CTO, has over 40 years of experience in scientific research and industrial R&D. He has been involved in guiding start-up companies from early stage to commercialization for over 15 years. Before working with LRS Ortho he served as CTO for Optiscope Technologies Ltd., developer of a disposable endoscope. Dr. Diamant earned an M.Sc. in electrophysics at the Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute and a Ph.D. in technical physics, from the Nuclear Physics Institute, Siberian Branch of the Soviet Academy of Science, Novosibirsk. He was responsible for numerous technological innovations, has published articles in the field of electro-optics and high-speed plasma diagnostics, and is the author of four registered patents.


Alexander Nassonov, Founder and Senior Biomedical Engineer has twenty years experience in R&D activities, including development, prototyping and testing of electro- and opto-mechanical devices. He developed an opto-mechanical jig for use in the orthopedic surgery of broken long bones for the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Mr. Nassonov holds an M.Sc. in physical engineering from St. Petersburg State Technical University.

Alexander Lerner, M.D., Ph.D., Founder and Medical Advisor, brings extensive experience in trauma surgery to the LRS Ortho team. In his position as Senior Orthopedic Surgeon at the Rambam Medical Center, Dr. Lerner has been involved in treating war injuries, work-accident injuries, orthopedic diseases, and limb deformities; and in extensive reconstructive orthopedic surgery. He has experience with the known Ilizarov method for treating severe trauma and limb elongation (with an external device). Prior to moving to Israel, Dr. Lerner worked in the surgery, trauma, and orthopedic surgery departments in hospitals in the former Soviet Union. He has been a lecturer in the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology since 2002, becoming Senior Lecturer in 2005. Dr. Lerner is widely published and active in numerous professional organizations. He holds an M.D. from Vitebsk State Institute of Medicine and a Ph.D. in medicine from the Minsk Institute of Medicine.

Medical advisory board


Dr. David Helfet, 

He was Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1/82-6/86), Associate Professor and Chief of Orthopaedic Trauma at the University of S. Florida School of Medicine/Tampa General Hospital (7/86-6/91) and at the Cornell University Medical College (7/91-6/98). He is currently Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Director of the Combined Orthopaedic Trauma Service at both Hospital for Special Surgery and New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Prof. Michael Sudry, Head of the Orthopedics Department at Rambam Medical Center, Israel