Meet Thompson Foundation Board Member, Dr. Sonny Bal!

Dr. Sonny Bal is CEO & President of SINTX Technologies, an advanced materials manufacturing company headquartered in Salt Lake City that develops and commercializes products 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, and serves on the editorial boards of peer-refereed journals. He is also an attorney, with over 20 years of experience in assisting law firms with medical negligence cases.

In addition to his JD from Mizzou, he holds a BS and MS 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 in Japan. 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.