The Tango Belt was conceived on this simple belief: Falls are inevitable, injuries are not.

Dr. Robert F. Buckman was an American trauma surgeon, inventor, and founder. 

A graduate of Duke University School of Medicine, he trained at Johns Hopkins and Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, then spent fifteen years directing Philadelphia’s busiest trauma center as a full professor of surgery at Temple University School of Medicine. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps, deploying to Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm with the 300th Field Hospital, and later spent three years researching at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. 

Over the course of his career he authored roughly 100 publications in trauma medicine, held 15 U.S. patents, served as editor-in-chief of Trauma Quarterly, and examined for the American Board of Surgery.

Combining his medical knowledge with engineering rigor, he studied fall-risk factors, developed a methodology to detect serious hip-impacting falls with unprecedented accuracy, and created the Tango Belt.