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Surgeons & Staff
Dr. Bernard (Ben) Guiot, M.D., Ph.D.
Surgeon Faculty Advisor
Dr. Ben Guiot specializes in all aspects of spine care, including non-operative and operative management of spinal problems extending from the skull base to the sacrum, as well as all aspects of complex spinal reconstruction, including minimally invasive spinal technologies. Prior to joining South Denver Neurosurgery, Dr. Guiot served as the Director of Spine Surgery in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of South Florida. He also held positions as the Medical Director of Biomechanics Lab and the Director of Spine Cadaveric...
Dr. Edward (Ted) Parks, M.D.
Surgeon Faculty Advisor
Dr. Ted Parks grew up in Denver, Colorado. He received both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in biological sciences from Stanford University and then his M.D. from Yale Medical School. Following his graduation from Yale, Dr. Parks completed his internship and orthopedic residency training at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California and completed a fellowship in sports medicine with Dr. Frank Noyes in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Parks is specialty-trained in advanced arthroscopic reconstruction of the knee and shoulder, and has been a...
Dr. Alan Davis, M.D.
Surgeon Faculty Advisor
Dr. Alan Davis is a foot and ankle surgeon, practicing at the Cleveland Clinic Westlake Family Health Center. He is the former Chairman of the St. John West Shore Hospital Department of Orthopaedics, and joined Cleveland Clinic from his private practice in Westlake in 1999. He is a member of the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society, the Ohio Orthopaedic Society, the American Medical Association, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. In addition to his practice, Dr. Davis is the Team Physician for the Cleveland...
Dr. David W. Miller, M.D.
Surgeon Faculty Advisor
Dr. David Miller is an accomplished neurosurgeon who is skilled in a wide range of neurosurgical procedures ranging from brain surgery – including tumor excision – to complex spinal reconstruction. Dr. Miller’s practice philosophy is patient-centered and every effort is made to treat problems conservatively. He has a special interest in minimally invasive surgical procedures and attempts to employ them whenever indicated. In 2007, Dr. Miller moved his practice to High Mountain Brain & Spinal Surgery in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. His...
Dr. Jan P. Silfverskiold, M.D.
Surgeon Faculty Advisor
Dr. Jan Silfverskiold, originally from Stockholm, Sweden, now makes his home in Carbondale, Colorado. After graduating from medical school at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, Dr. Silfverskiold completed his residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He went on to complete three fellowships in different orthopaedic specializations with: Dr. Frank Scott – Hand; Dr. Richard Steadman – Sports Medicine and Knee; Dr. Roger Mann – Foot and Ankle. After practicing orthopaedic medicine as a foot and ankle...
Mark Burgeson
President
Mark comes to the Medical Sales College with over 20 years of experience in orthopaedic sales and sales management. During his sales career, he has represented surgical lines for DePuy, Smith & Nephew, and Tornier, covering trauma, orthopaedic reconstruction, spine, and sports medicine cases. While with DePuy, Mark was named the National Sales Leader for Sports Medicine in three consecutive years. At Smith & Nephew, he served as the Technical Sales Manager for orthopaedic reconstruction and computer-assisted surgery. Having joined the...
Mitch Seigars
Vice President of Training
Mitch has spent 18 years in the medical industry. The first nine years were spent as a surgical scrub tech and first assist, primarily for orthopaedic and spinal procedures. Mitch then transitioned from a clinical role to a sales role, representing spinal products for Medtronic Sofamor-Danek, where he turned a $500,000 territory into a $4.5 million territory. He averaged 150% to quota and was inducted into the Medtronic Pyramid of Excellence Club in 2003. Mitch was invited to corporate headquarters in Memphis, TN to help rebuild the Medtronic...
Scott Boswell
Director of Training
Scott comes to the Medical Sales College with over 16 years of experience in medical sales. Scott began his selling career in specialty pharmaceuticals (pulmonology, gastroenterology, hepatology, etc.) and durable medical goods. Scott successfully transitioned into medical device sales, joining an award-winning distributorship for DePuy Orthopaedics, where he sold total joint, trauma, extremities, and orthobiologic products. Scott was instrumental in doubling the business of his territory – to what was ultimately a $15 million territory –...
Jim Rogers
Founder & CEO
Jim Rogers has spent the last 25 years in sales and sales management. Jim started his career with Prudential Securities where, by the age of 24, he became the youngest Vice President in the company’s history. Jim’s entrepreneurial endeavors began at the age of 26, when he started his own investment company. In 1999, Jim sold that company and moved into medical device sales, where he spent four years with Stryker managing successful territories in Arizona and Iowa. In 2004, Jim accepted a position with Wright Medical Technology as the...
Susan Wells
Senior Vice President
Susan Wells comes to the Medical Sales College with over 15 years of experience in the insurance industry. Susan has served as the Executive Vice President for a leading online insurance educator, where she developed training programs (LMS) designed to deter and detect insurance fraud. She also served for several years in senior management positions for leading multi-national insurance companies and large, private investment firms, managing the areas of insurance, investment, and accounting. In her role as Senior Vice President, Susan has...
Kim Smalley
Director of Admissions
Kim joins the Medical Sales College team with over 25 years of medical sales and management experience in both the dental industry and, more recently, in orthopeadic device sales. Her recent experience has been in Spine with Zimmer and in Extremity Reconstruction with Integra LifeSciences. While with Zimmer, Kim successfully grew her business in the pediatric scoliosis deformity market and also led the sales team in cervical fusion products. Kim is a native Arizonan who only recently moved to Colorado. The team at MSC knew her experience and...
Rebecca Ensley
Director of Student Services
Rebecca Ensley is a summa cum laude graduate of Arizona State University. During her time as a student, she studied and worked for one of the nation’s premier honors colleges in their Admissions Department. Following graduation, Rebecca was hired by a national sorority to serve as an Educational Leadership Consultant. Over the span of nine months, Rebecca traveled to over 35 college campuses, working with the campus administrators and over 1,700 collegians on the areas of recruitment, leadership training and risk management. It was...