SynerFuse®, Inc., a Minnesota-based medical device company, today announced the appointment of Thomas T. Lee, M.D., FAANS, MBA, as vice president of strategy.
“We are pleased to be able to bring Dr. Lee into our leadership team. He is a renowned talent, in the fields of both neurosurgery and finance,” said SynerFuse® CEO and Founder Justin Zenanko. “He will apply business and medical knowledge to the integrated approach we are taking to improve patient outcomes.”
“I am honored to serve as vice president of strategy at Synerfuse®,” said Lee. “This position enables me to apply my expertise in organizational efficiency and medical effectiveness to help SynerFuse® address one of the most common and debilitating conditions in healthcare.”
“At SynerFuse®, we believe that individuals with chronic low back and leg pain deserve better outcomes and improved lives,” said Zenanko. “Even when spinal fusion is successful, it can often result in residual chronic neuropathic pain and use of addictive opioids. Today, all patients are prescribed opioids post spinal fusion due to it being an invasive surgery. We are working to create a non-opioid solution for chronic low back and leg pain with our patented therapy, Electric Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (e-TLIF™), which integrates spinal fusion hardware and direct nerve stimulation that allows Ultra-Low-Energy™ (ULE™) therapy.”
Dr. Lee is a board-certified neurosurgeon and an assistant neurosurgery professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He has been St. John’s Riverside Hospital’s Chief of Neurosurgery from 2001 – 2025. Dr. Lee has a long record of serving in leadership roles in organizations and their governing boards. He was chair of St John’s Riverside Hospital’s Board of Trustees from 2012 – 2016 and the inaugural chair of its Audit and Corporate Compliance Committee. His deep knowledge of hospital finance and his 20-year tenure on its Finance Committee helped St. John’s through extraordinary financial headwinds faced by critical safety net hospitals. Recently, Dr. Lee assumed the role of the Executive Vice President of Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY).