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Van Phillips is an American entrepreneur and inventor. He is best known for inventing the world's first water-resistant prosthetic limb, the Flex-Foot Cheetah. He was born in 1954 in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States. Phillips attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering. After college, he worked as a design engineer for a prosthetics company. It was during this time that he developed the Flex-Foot Cheetah, which revolutionized the prosthetics industry. Phillips founded the company Flex-Foot Inc. in 1984 to manufacture and market the Flex-Foot Cheetah. The company was later acquired by Össur, an Icelandic prosthetics company, in 1996. Phillips served as the president of Össur Americas until his retirement in 2011. Phillips has been honored with numerous awards for his invention, including the Lemelson-MIT Prize, the National Medal of Technology, and the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists' Lifetime Achievement Award. Phillips is married and has two children. He currently resides in California.

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2000

Phillips ultimately created a workable artificial foot made from carbon graphite. Unlike all previous prostheses, it stored kinetic energy from the wearer's steps as potential energy, like a spring, allowing the wearer to run and jump. A prosthetic foot that he created, the Flex-Foot Cheetah, is used by double-amputee and Paralympics gold-medalist Oscar Pistorius, and about 90 percent of Paralympics participants use a variation of the original Flex-Foot design, as well as thousands of people around the world. Phillips sold Flex-Foot to Ossur in 2000, which continues to manufacture the artificial foot. See also Össur#Prosthetics.

1999

In 1999 he established Second Wind, a non-profit organization to provide inexpensive and resistant prostheses to amputees around the world, and is now working to create a prosthetic leg for land mine victims in developing countries. In 1998 he received the Brian Blatchford Memorial Prize from the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics.

1954

Van Phillips (born 1954) is an American inventor of prosthetics. He is known for the Flex-Foot brand of artificial foot and limbs that he created, and for his charity work for amputees. An amputee himself, having lost a leg below the knee at age 21, Phillips was motivated by the limitations of then-existing artificial limbs to attend the Northwestern University Medical School Prosthetic-Orthotic Center. After graduation, he worked as a biomedical design engineer at the University of Utah before starting his own company, Flex-Foot Incorporated in 1984.

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