Katie Leatherwood
Certified Prosthetist-Orthotist
Designed to Live
2025
09:25
Main Stage
Smart, Safe and Scalable Medical Devices
Or Benifla
CustoMed
Katie Leatherwood
Designed to Live
Oezlem Weiss
Expertants GmbH
Stefan Leonhardt
Kumovis - 3D Systems
2024
Katie Leatherwood
Katie Marie Leatherwood is a certified Prosthetist-Orthotist with a degree in Kinisiology from LeTourneau University. Living in Latvia since 2015, Katie is the director of SIA Designed to Live Ortopēdija. Since 2022, she has implemented additive manufacturing and digital workflows as her primary prosthetic design and fabrication method. She is known internationally for her successful and scaled use of 3d printing in prosthetic care. Katie has unique experience in providing prosthetic care to post-war trauma amputees and in less-resourced countries. She is the director of Designed to Live, a non-profit organization that supports the provision of prosthetic care to patients both in Latvia and Ukraine.