Innovating Digital Care: Personalization and Sustainability Through 3D Printing in Healthcare

This session highlights the transformative impact of 3D printing in personalized healthcare solutions. Presentations will showcase innovations in prosthetics and orthotics, emphasizing automation, customization, and sustainability from advanced brace design using digital modeling to environmentally conscious manufacturing practices that maintain high standards of safety and performance.

This course is worth 1.75 scientific credits. If you attended this session at the 2025 National Assembly, please note you will not receive credit again.

Brent Wright, CP, BOCO

Clinician/Designer

LifeNabled

W. Brent Wright, CP, BOCO, practices at Eastpoint Prosthetics and Orthotics in Raleigh, NC. He has been in the field since he started as a technician at age 16 and has seen firsthand how additive technology is evolving and impacts patients not only in the US but also in the developing world. He graduated from Appalachian State University with a BS in Healthcare Management and continued with a post baccalaureate certificate from California State University for Prosthetics. Brent is pioneering techniques to effectively use additive technology such as MultiJet Fusion and Selective Laser Sintering to create dynamic prostheses that are light as well as flexible. He is excited that prosthetists have a chance to be a part of the industrial revolution where mass customization and patient outcomes collide. Brent is the Clinical Director of LifeNabled, a non-profit that specializes in manufacturing all new low-cost and high-quality prostheses. He sees a world where all amputees have access to prostheses because of scanning and 3D printing.