Surgery-education firm beta tests a new product

"We're ahead of projections," says Darik Volpa, chief executive officer and creative force behind Understandsurgery.com.

The Renobased company, just over a year old, produces online and CD educational products answering questions about surgery.

Surgeons use the websites to help explain procedures; consumers use them to become informed.

Understandsurgery moved into new offices in south Reno in early December - into controlled chaos, says Volpa, but with Internet and phone lines up - all you need for a web company to zoom along.

The company is also in the midst of beta-testing its new understandplasticsurgery.

com product for a Jan.

1 national launch.And it is also launching its new, understandspinesurgery site in partnership with Stryker Orthopaedics.

Just over the horizon, says Volpa is a definite possibility of endorsement by a large orthopedic surgeons' group.

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