Van Phillips Video History Interview
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Ossur North America
label: Collection Interviewer
content: Ott, Katherine
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Phillips, Van
label: Collection Interviewer
content: Dennis, Maggie
label: Collection Creator
content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
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content: Van Phillips Oral History and Papers
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content: Van Phillips Oral History and Papers / Series 1: Video Oral History
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2004-02-27
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Video 859.1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Total Running Time: 32:30

Maggie Dennis and Katherine Ott interview of Van Phillips, topics discussed: his life as a father; a desire to create a Landmine Foot; his early disdain for the Flex-Foot; the brainstorming process with partners about the design of prosthetic feet; his work at Flex-Foot Inc. and the frustrations he experienced with the science advisory board; his appreciation of creativity and how ideas come to him; the founding of Flex-Foot Inc.; his partners Dale Abildskov and Bob Fosberg; the decision to sell the company to Ossur; and how he ended up at the University of Utah's Center for Biomedical Design.