Dr. Sparks was formerly vice president of DePuySynthes, Johnson & Johnson’s orthopedic company. She was also an important leader in Johnson & Johnson’s Our Race To Health Equity initiative, as an advocate of health equity and the third Black woman to be selected for specialized trauma fellowship training at Harvard Medical School.
AppiedVR created immersive VRx treatments, a category of digital therapeutics, to relieve pain through immersive, virtual reality treatments. The company owns the first virtual reality-based treatment for chronic lower back pain to be granted FDA De Novo approval as a medical device.
At AppliedVR Dr. Sparks will lead all medical, clinical, regulatory and quality aspects of the company with an eye for health equity.
“Emerging digital technologies like virtual reality provide a safe, scalable and cost-effective treatment option for everyone experiencing chronic pain. These transformational immersive technologies should not be reserved for the communities that already have the best insurance and access to the highest-quality care,” Dr. Sparks said. “I am looking forward to making immersive therapeutics a standard of care in chronic pain management and establishing AppliedVR as a leader in health equity for the digital health industry.”
