Medical Whistleblower Case Against Medtronic

Polly David is a prominent orthopedic spine surgeon in Minnesota renowned for her use of Medtronic spinal implants. However, her connections to Medtronic have become the focus of a federal whistleblower lawsuit filed by one or her patients against them.

She earned $344,375 in consulting fees over seven years from a medical device giant and encouraged doctors to use its Infuse bone graft product off-label ways that could endanger patients, according to legal claims.

Early Life and Education

As a child, she won a Blue Peter badge for her stories and poems that earned her recognition by Blue Peter himself. Later she went on to become a lyricist and author.

David Polly is a vertebrate paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and geologist by training. His primary research areas of interest are animal relationships as well as how environmental changes impact evolution of animals such as fossil mammals from 65 million years ago to modern day Cenozoic environments.

This exhibition at Arcadia Exhibitions brings together works by Apfelbaum and her late Pennsylvania folk artist and antique dealer father-in-law David Ellinger (1913-2003). These two artists share an affinity for regional arts and design practices while remaining open to exploring collaboratively the possibilities that generative exploration, interdisciplinarity and working across genre can open up for one another’s artistic biographies.

Professional Career

Polly David was a professional artist for over three decades. Her work, inspired by Minimalism and Color Field painting techniques, explored the subtle nuances of color while seeking to blur the boundaries between two- and three-dimensional art making.

She has shown her work throughout the United States and internationally, including at museums like MoMA (New York), Corcoran Museum of Art (Washington DC), Magasin 3 Stockholm in Sweden and Magasin 3 in New Orleans. Her efforts have been recognized with a Pew Center for Arts Grant, Creative Capital Award and 2012 Rome Prize at American Academy in Rome.

Polly was also an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated for many years and served in multiple leadership capacities and hosted events with them. On March 26th 2023 she received recognition from her sorority recognizing 50 years as part of their organization.

Achievement and Honors

Polly is an expert vertebrate paleontologist and recognized authority on mammalian evolution and the history of morphology, using geometric morphometrics, quantitative genetics and phylogenetics to study how functional performance, chance events and ancestry all impact morphological evolution shaped by Earth’s changing climate, landscape and tectonics. His work blends these disciplines together in an approach that integrates geometric morphometrics, quantitative genetics and phylogenetics for analysis of how functional performance, chance events and ancestry affect morphological evolution; his work also explores how functional performance, chance events and ancestry affect morphological evolution, while taking into account Earth’s changing climate landscape and tectonics influences its shape on evolution as it unfolds over time.

John Kohn is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), as well as being a member of both the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and Environmental Resilience Institute at Indiana University. In 2018 he received the AAAS Science and Technology Award for his contribution to vertebrate paleontology; was the President of both, Edward P Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar at Yale University; and in 2019 was also elected Fellow to Paris Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Personal Life

Polly Samson has enjoyed a happy married life. She is the mother of four children and wife to David Gilmour, guitarist for Pink Floyd.

Novelist, lyricist and journalist. Her literary works have garnered widespread acclaim.

She has served as a primary lyricist for Pink Floyd. Additionally, she has written songs for solo albums by Gilmour.

She and her husband have long had an ongoing dispute with former band member Roger Waters over issues such as Pink Floyd’s Animals album.

Net Worth

David Gilmour is an esteemed musician and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist of Pink Floyd. Although he experienced difficulties at first with their formation, David persevered to help make them one of the most revered rock groups ever.

As a result, his estimated net worth is an estimated $180 million. Additionally, he owns an impressive antique aircraft collection that can be seen at his Intrepid Aviation Museum in North Weald, England.

Gilmour, in addition to being a legendary guitarist, has also found great happiness through marriage with English novelist Polly Samson and three children they share together.