Vertos Medical Inc., a venture-backed maker of devices that treat degenerative spinal diseases, recently moved its headquarters to Aliso Viejo from San Jose as it readies its first product.
“My intent upon joining the company was to grow it commercially,” said Chief Executive James Corbett, an Orange County resident who joined Vertos in November. “I thought that Orange County would be more stable and (a better) area to build the company out.”
Vertos developed a procedure called “mild,” which stands for minimally invasive lumbar decompression, and sells a set of devices that is used in the procedure.
“Mild” treats lumbar spinal stenosis, or narrowing of the spinal canal, without major surgery.
Vertos is training doctors to use its devices and plans to roll them out nationally in early 2010.
Vertos’ 10,000-square-foot headquarters, on Aliso Creek Road near the San Joaquin Hills (73) Toll Road, includes space for administrative, financial, some clinical research, sales and marketing, customer service and distribution functions, as well as a training center.
The headquaters once housed SenoRx Inc., a maker of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment devices that’s now headquartered in Irvine.
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