At the Thompson Foundation board meeting last week, Dr. Sonny Bal was elected to the board of directors. Dr. Bal is CEO & President of SINTX Technologies, an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) ceramics company headquartered in Salt Lake City that develops and commercializes silicon nitride ceramics for medical and non-medical applications. Dr. Bal was an MU professor of Orthopaedic Surgery from 1999-2017 and served as an adjunct professor of Material Sciences at Missouri S&T. He has researched and published extensively in ceramic science and serves on the editorial boards of peer-refereed journals. He is also a licensed attorney who co-founded the Bal Brenner law firm in North Carolina.
In addition to his JD from Mizzou, he holds a BS in Genetics from UC Davis, an MD from Cornell University, an MBA from Northwestern University, and a PhD in Materials Engineering from the Kyoto Institute of Technology. He received fellowship training in joint replacement surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, and he did residencies at UC San Francisco and UMKC. He met his spouse, Dana Bal, M.D., when she was in medical school at UMKC. The Bal family calls Columbia home.
Welcome, Dr. Bal!