The Record — theasbaghirecord.com. A filing is not a verdict. Nothing on this site is a finding of liability.

Section 09

The Field

Public enforcement and research records in the same industry and city. Each row is a source. What it establishes, and what it does not, stay on the row. None of these rows is his operative report.

Industry enforcement on this page is context. It is not his patient record and it is not his implants. Stryker Research Institute, Scripps Health, Scripps Clinic Medical Group, and SCORE are not one noun. A TSRI grant settlement is not Scripps Green. A Rejuvenate modular-neck payout is not a Secur-Fit / Trident / Biolox card. Persona IQ is a knee. His surgeries were hips. Public misconduct in this industry is documented. It is not his operative report.

Unanswered portal asks and a chart that will not close the hip question are why a person would look here. These rows are bibliography. Capability is not guilt. None of these rows is his implant.

Each row is a public record with a source. Click through.

2018

FDA / device industry

The Bleeding Edge

Kirby Dick / Amy Ziering Netflix documentary on the medical-device industry, 510(k) clearance, and patient harm from devices including metal hips.

Establishes. A widely distributed film argues that device regulation can fail patients. Former FDA commissioner David Kessler is quoted in contemporaneous coverage on a system that does not work for devices.

Does not. Does not name Hooman, Walker, or his Stryker Secur-Fit / Trident / Biolox parts. A film is context, not his operative report.

Netflix · The Bleeding Edge

3 Nov 2014 / May 2017

Stryker Orthopaedics

Rejuvenate and ABG II modular-neck settlements

Stryker announced a U.S. settlement for patients who had revision surgery on recalled Rejuvenate Modular-Neck and/or ABG II stems. Later coverage of a second program cited a global cost on the order of $2 billion.

Establishes. Stryker has paid very large sums over specific recalled modular-neck hips. Kickbacks and recalls are not imaginary categories.

Does not. Does not identify Hooman’s 2015/2017 parts. Staff lists on his file name conventional Secur-Fit / Trident / Biolox — a different product line. A Rejuvenate settlement is not his implant card.

SEC · 3 Nov 2014 Stryker release

8 Dec 2014

OtisMed / Stryker

OtisKnee unapproved cutting guides

DOJ: OtisMed and its former CEO pleaded guilty to distributing knee cutting guides after FDA rejection. The corporation agreed to pay more than $80 million. DOJ stated the criminal conduct occurred before Stryker’s 2009 acquisition and without Stryker’s prior knowledge.

Establishes. An acquired Stryker subsidiary sold unapproved knee devices. FDA rejection is not a theoretical risk.

Does not. Does not concern hip stems. Does not prove off-label modification of Hooman’s hips. Knee cutting guides are not a THA.

DOJ · OtisMed news release

11 Sep 2020

The Scripps Research Institute

$10 million NIH grant-charging settlement

TSRI agreed to pay $10 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it charged NIH grants for non-grant time (new applications, teaching, admin). No admission of liability in the institute’s public characterization.

Establishes. The research institute that shares the Scripps name has a public False Claims Act settlement.

Does not. TSRI is not Scripps Green Hospital and not Scripps Clinic Medical Group. Grant-time accounting is not an implant. Do not fuse the entities.

Times of San Diego · TSRI $10M

19 Jan 2018

Scripps Health

$1.5 million unsupervised physical-therapy billing

Scripps Health paid $1.5 million to resolve allegations it billed Medicare/TRICARE for PT by therapists without billing privileges and without required physician supervision. Whistleblower Suzanne Forrest. Scripps described a technical billing error and did not concede the care was not delivered.

Establishes. The hospital system has a public False Claims Act settlement about unsupervised billing.

Does not. Does not mention orthopedics, Walker, or implants. Billing privileges are not telemetry.

HHS OIG · Scripps Health $1.5M

7 Mar 2004

Scripps / SCORE

First electronic knee — Jerry Ward, coil-activated

Scripps news: Colwell, SCORE director, implanted the first electronic knee at Scripps Green. Jerry Ward selected; prior THA and contralateral TKA; described as eager to contribute. DePuy / MicroStrain. A removable coil around the knee externally activates the system, then a nearby computer reads loads. Wired, 19 March 2004: ethics committee; external power; research device, no FDA review.

Establishes. SCORE publicly described a consented, coil-activated research knee in 2004. The first patient is named.

Does not. Does not prove a 2015 or 2017 hip was that program. The Fall 2004 magazine quotes Ward calling himself a lab rat — his sentence, about him. Do not write this patient was enrolled that way.

Scripps · 7 Mar 2004 first electronic knee

14 Feb 2007

Scripps Clinic / San Diego Padres

Padres official health-care provider through 2009

Relationship began 1981. Head Team Physician Jan Fronek. Speaker: Larry Harrison, CEO of Scripps Clinic. Walker and Colwell are not on that staff list.

Establishes. A long Scripps Clinic–Padres contract is on this page. The 2007 named CEO of Scripps Clinic is Harrison, not Walker.

Does not. Does not lock Walker as president in 2007. Padres years on Walker’s and Colwell’s bios stay on those bios. A later family-fundraising overlap is not this row.

Scripps · 14 Feb 2007 Padres agreement

31 May 2011 / 22 Sep 2011

Scripps / SCORE

Four e-knee testers; next-generation alarm printed as a goal

31 May 2011 Andry page: D’Lima more than 15 years; Colwell implanted the first in 2004; three additional patients; next-generation goal of a smart knee that would monitor wear, detect infection, and sound an alarm. 22 September 2011 teaser: Donald McDonald one of only four people in the world testing the e-knee. Live 4074 page is a short teaser. 22 September 2010 NIH $660k modeling grant is a different year.

Establishes. By 2011 SCORE had printed four named e-knee testers and a next-generation alarm as a goal.

Does not. Does not name a hip or Walker. A 2011 goal is not a shipped 2015 implant. Longer remote-power quotes are not on the live 4074 teaser.

Scripps · 31 May 2011 Andry Award

30 Aug 2021 / 2 Dec 2022

Zimmer Biomet / Canary / CBS Philadelphia

Persona IQ — commercial smart knee with a base station

FDA De Novo 30 August 2021 for a smart tibial extension in TKA. CBS Philadelphia 2 December 2022, Stephanie Stahl, Donna Cordero: sensors to a personal base station that sends data to the phone and the doctor’s office. As printed: no GPS; mobility only; 10-year battery then transmission stops.

Establishes. A commercial phone-linked smart knee exists from 2021 with a nightstand hub. Quote no-GPS.

Does not. Not SCORE. Not a hip. Not 2015. Not Stryker Trident / Secur-Fit. Not a finding 2023 laboratory blood was implant telemetry. FDA clearance is years after both THAs.

CBS Philadelphia · 2 Dec 2022 smart knee

2 Feb 2026

Peer-reviewed field / D’Lima

Sensor-integrated hip and knee prostheses (Frontiers)

A February 2026 review traces instrumented implants, cites D’Lima’s Scripps Clinic tibial-tray work (2005–2007), and notes Persona IQ as an FDA-cleared sensor-enabled *knee* in 2021.

Establishes. Instrumented implants are real, published, and associated with Scripps Clinic research. D’Lima is in that literature.

Does not. A research knee tray and a 2021 commercial smart knee are not Hooman’s 2015/2017 hip parts. Walker’s 2025 sentences still say standard Stryker, no chips. The field existing is why the file stays open. It is not the device in his bone.

Frontiers · 2 Feb 2026 review

17 Aug 2025

Cureus / Springer Nature

Systematic review of EMF effects on living beings

Danho, Escobar Huertas, Schoellhorn. Open-access review (CC-BY 4.0). Lists documented experimental impacts including inflammatory responses, heart rate, thyroid, fertility, neuronal activity. Authors also print moderate-to-high risk of bias and poorly understood long-term human effects. 24 studies after screening; five human non-randomized.

Establishes. A 2025 open-access review exists and says both the impact list and the certainty limit.

Does not. Does not identify his implants as a source. A mixed experimental review is not a hip-stem trial.

DOI 10.7759/cureus.90355

1 Jun 2008

Healio / Orthopedics Today

Smart implants survey — D’Lima, Colwell, Bergmann, Parvizi

1 June 2008, seven years before the 2015 right THA. D’Lima (Shiley Center, Scripps Clinic): truly smart means remotely turn on/off, collect, reprogram; envisions a hip dislocation sensor; e-Tibia with Colwell; then “we need lab equipment” — it cannot communicate with the patient. Parvizi: vibration around prostheses could signal loosening; a microchip could alert patient or surgeon. Bergmann: seven instrumented hip patients, 32 smart implants, OrthoLoad.com. Photo is a Theken eDisc (spine). Walker is not named.

Establishes. A 2008 industry survey names SCORE’s D’Lima and Colwell on remote on/off and a hip-sensor vision, and prints Bergmann’s OrthoLoad series.

Does not. Does not identify his 2015 or 2017 parts. Need-lab-equipment is the opposite of a patient-facing radio. Walker is not on the article.

Healio · 1 Jun 2008

June 2012

J Am Acad Orthop Surg / Ledet, D’Lima, Bergmann et al.

Implantable sensor technology — exclusive research tools

June 2012, three years before the 2015 right THA. D’Lima, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla. Wireless passive sensors can be incorporated with minimal or no modification to the host implant. Orthopaedic smart implants used exclusively as research tools; IRB required. Size reduced to <10 mm; electronics housed inside the implant. Figure 2: bulky battery telemetry vs fingertip passive chip. Figure 3: instrumented total shoulder, not a hip. Figure 4: radiograph of an instrumented tibial prosthesis with coil and antenna labeled. Figure 6: CardioMEMS, cardiac. D’Lima: unpaid consultant to Stryker; research support from Stryker. Walker is not named.

Establishes. A 2012 JAAOS review exists with D’Lima as co-author, prints exclusive-research-tools plus size/housing, and prints D’Lima’s Stryker disclosure.

Does not. Does not identify his 2015 or 2017 parts. Figure 4 is a knee radiograph and cuts against undetectable-on-imaging as a finding from this paper. Exclusive research tools plus IRB is the authors’ limit.

DOI 10.5435/JAAOS-20-06-383

21 Oct 2014

HSS Journal / Steinhoff, Hakim, Walker, Colwell, Copp

Ceramic liner fracture — Trident PSL / Secur-Fit / Biolox series

Published online 21 October 2014, a year before the 9 October 2015 right THA. Methods: Trident PSL cup, Super Secur-Fit Plus stem, alumina Biolox head — all Stryker. Same product family as the staff lists. Walker declared no conflict of interest. Colwell reports Stryker research support outside the work. Single surgeon’s series of 169; the paper does not name which of the five authors was that surgeon. Ceramic fracture and impingement, not a smart-hip paper.

Establishes. A 2014 Scripps-clinic ceramic THA series with Walker and Colwell as co-authors used the same Stryker product family later listed on this file. Colwell disclosed Stryker research support outside the work.

Does not. Does not prove his cups were among the 169. Does not name Walker as that series’ operating surgeon. Does not prove Colwell operated on this patient.

DOI 10.1007/s11420-014-9415-7

16 Sep 2021

Progress in Biomedical Engineering / IOP

In-vivo sensing in a total hip replacement — review

Vickers, Culmer, Isaac, Kay, Shuttleworth, Board, Williams. Open access, CC-BY 4.0. A widely used smart THR had not yet been realised. Fewer than 100 patients had received an instrumented implant, mostly for discrete biomechanics rather than condition monitoring. RF 30–400 MHz named as body-resonance for a deep IMD; Bluetooth at 2.45 GHz had not been used in an instrumented hip implant, and low penetration would make BLE unfeasible in the hip in that telling.

Establishes. Instrumented hips exist as a research line, with named limits in 2021, including that BLE had not been used in a hip implant.

Does not. Does not identify his 2015 or 2017 parts. Capability in a review is not a theatre log.

DOI 10.1088/2516-1091/ac1b7f

1 Nov 2013

Sensors and Actuators A / Silva et al.

Power management for a smart-hip prototype — BLE112 / SimpliciTI

Title: Power management architecture for smart hip prostheses comprising multiple energy harvesting systems. Abstract: BLE112 up to 50 s; MSP430/eZ430-RF2500 SimpliciTI up to 110 s. Introduction: BLE v.4 protocols available in common mobile devices for local or remote access to sensor data. Later paragraph: BLE112 and MSP430/CC2500 telemetry; activation circuit remotely activates and deactivates. Published 1 November 2013. A published prototype, not his 9 October 2015 operation. Full article paywalled; stills are the publisher preview, not the Elsevier PDF.

Establishes. A 2013 paper exists describing those radios in a laboratory smart-hip architecture. That paper is not his 9 October 2015 operation.

Does not. Does not prove those modules were in his stems. Tens of seconds is not hours of vibration. Chip-name overlap with consumer BLE tools is overlap.

DOI 10.1016/j.sna.2013.01.049

22 Jan 2013

Sensors & Transducers / IFSA

Wireless loosening detection in a femoral head — 125 kHz inductive

Sauer, Kirsten, Storck, Grätz, Marschner, Ruwisch, Fischer. Vibration-analysis system in the femoral head. Power and data by inductive coupling at 125 kHz, ISO 18000-2. Laboratory bone-prosthesis tests. Source of the titanium-sleeve / PEEK-coil figure Vickers reproduces.

Establishes. A 2013 loosening-detection package with a nearby reader coil exists in print.

Does not. Does not use Bluetooth. Does not name Scripps or his part numbers.

IFSA PDF · P_SI_300

2022

Sensors International / Iyengar et al.

SMART sensor technology in trauma and orthopaedics

Iyengar, Kariya, Botchu, Jain, Vaishya. Open-access review. SMART implants described as existing orthopaedic designs with embedded sensors; in-vivo changes transmitted by Bluetooth or RF to a monitoring computer. Industry 4.0 framing.

Establishes. A 2022 review discusses Bluetooth/RF telemetry as a class of orthopaedic SMART implants.

Does not. A class review is not his implant. Does not name Walker, Stryker Trident, or a 2015 San Diego case.

DOI 10.1016/j.sintl.2022.100163

9 Apr 2024

Technologies / MDPI

Piezoelectric hip-force sensing in an Exeter V40 on a test rig

Geiger, Bathel, Spors, Bader, Kluess. CC-BY. Exeter V40, Stryker Howmedica Osteonics, Mahwah, with a PI Ceramic piezo, cemented into a Sawbones femur. Bench experiment published years after 2015.

Establishes. A 2024 paper used a Stryker Exeter stem as the laboratory host for a piezo element.

Does not. Does not describe a marketed smart hip. Exeter is not the Trident / Secur-Fit / Biolox list on his file.

DOI 10.3390/technologies12040051

1 Feb 2014 – 31 Jan 2016

EU FP7 / CORDIS

SMART-HIP project 606335 — loosening oscillator, not nanoparticle release

Sensor Based Detection of Implant Loosening in Total Hip Replacements. Intelligent prosthesis: oscillator unit (magnetic body on a steel spring) for acoustic-mechanical resonance vs loosening. Diagnostic device outside the body to excite the oscillator. Distinct from the SMARTHIP™ nanoparticle / handheld-personalized-medicine figure in Mohapatra et al., Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(14), 4881, which summarizes Thomas J. Webster’s concept.

Establishes. An EU project with that name existed in 2014–2016 and was loosening diagnostics.

Does not. Does not establish drug/nanoparticle release from his hips, and does not name Scripps. It is not the Webster figure.

CORDIS · SMART-HIP 606335

16 Jul 2020

Applied Sciences / Webster concept

SMARTHIP™ figure — RF to a handheld; nanoparticle release as a 2020 concept

Mohapatra et al., Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(14), 4881, DOI 10.3390/app10144881, Figure 1. Caption: The SMARTHIP™ can detect cell presence and function next to a hip implant in real time and possesses on-demand release of nanoparticles, antibiotics, anti-inflammatory agents, and more. Further, all information can be sent to a hand-held device to provide personalized medicine. Diagram: RF signal to a computer/analyzer; circuit/microchip/battery/antenna in the stem. Summarizes Thomas J. Webster (Northeastern). Distinct from CORDIS 606335.

Establishes. The nanoparticle / handheld SMARTHIP™ sentence is a published 2020 concept figure, now located.

Does not. Does not identify his 2015 or 2017 parts. A 2020 concept is five years after the first THA. Webster is not Scripps.

DOI 10.3390/app10144881

10–14 Mar 2025

Johnson & Johnson MedTech

AAOS 2025, San Diego — digital orthopaedics

J&J MedTech press copy for the AAOS 2025 annual meeting in San Diego describes a ‘new era of digital orthopaedics’ — implants, techniques, data-driven technologies.

Establishes. The industry was publicly selling ‘digital orthopaedics’ in San Diego in March 2025, the same season his theory crystallized.

Does not. A trade-show press release does not name his surgeon or his parts. Calendar overlap is overlap.

J&J MedTech · AAOS 2025

25 Jan 2017 / 9 Nov 2020

Scripps Clinic Medical Group

Walker named president — then president and CEO — of SCMG

25 January 2017 Scripps news quotes Richard Walker, MD, as president of Scripps Clinic Medical Group. 9 November 2020 Scripps news names him president and CEO of that medical group. NPI 1538297726 last update 16 May 2023 still lists authorized official PRESIDENT. Current SCMG leadership lists Joel Diamant, MD, as president.

Establishes. SCMG presidency is documented by 25 January 2017 — before the 23 October 2017 left THA. 2020 copy adds CEO of the physician group.

Does not. Does not prove he was president on 9 October 2015. Does not make him CEO of Scripps Health. A medical-group presidency is not a finding he ran an unauthorized implant program.

Scripps · 25 Jan 2017 quality awards

scripps.org physician page

Richard H. Walker, MD

Public bio — navigation, pressure sensors, SCMG president, Padres

Orthopedic Surgery; Adult Reconstructive Orthopedic Surgery. Joined Scripps Clinic 1983. Interests include computer-assisted navigation and pressure sensor applications for total hip and knee replacement. Most recently President of Scripps Clinic Medical Group. Team physician, San Diego Padres, over 15 years, including 1984 and 1998 pennants.

Establishes. The public bio exists and prints those roles and interests.

Does not. A bio is not a finding of unauthorized instrumentation. Navigation on the 2015 packet is cup registration. Padres years are not a family-fundraising finding.

Scripps.org — Richard Walker

13 Feb 1997

Nature / UCSD

Heat rises over UCSD ‘misconduct’ charge

Nature news item on Maurizio Zanetti. A junior in the lab alleged fabricated results and violations of university policies on animals, human experiments, and biosafety. Dual UCSD panels disagreed on fabrication. A later faculty panel recommended a reprimand for guideline violations. The U.S. Attorney’s Office had intervened in a whistleblower suit. Zanetti denied misconduct.

Establishes. A 1997 Nature piece exists. Human-experiment policy was among the allegations then being fought over at UCSD.

Does not. Does not find that unconsented human trials occurred. Does not name Padtan Elm or this family. The later Gerloni opinion recites a tenure-committee exoneration. This row is context, not a closing.

Nature 385, 566 (1997)

Dec 1987 / 2 Aug 1994

Johnson & Johnson Interventional Systems

Palmaz-Schatz Balloon-Expandable Stent — public calendar

First human iliac implant May 1987, Freiburg. First human coronary implant December 1987, São Paulo. J&J licensed in 1986. U.S. iliac approval 1991; U.S. coronary PMA P900043 on 2 August 1994 after BENESTENT and STRESS. Palmaz writes that coronary experience already existed in multiple cities outside the U.S. by 1991.

Establishes. An early-1990s introduction outside the United States was possible. U.S. coronary approval in 1994 is not a worldwide start date. Tehran hospital histories date angioplasty expansion to 1370 SH (March 1991–March 1992).

Does not. Does not name Hooman, Ghasemi, Valeix, or Imam Khomeini Hospital. Possibility is not a shipping record with his name on it.

Federal Register · PMA P900043