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The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) has launched its Young Innovators competition, which will form part of the recently announced fourth edition of WISH.
WISH's Young Innovators competition gives people under the age of 30 the opportunity to present novel health care-related products and innovations globally to an international audience of policy makers and influencers at WISH 2018, which will take place at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha on November 13 and 14, 2018.
Speaking during his opening address at the recent London Innovation in Health care Summit, Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham, Executive Chair of WISH, invited talented young innovators to apply to the competition.
'We all understand that innovation is our hope to building a healthier tomorrow and therefore it is vital that we provide a platform for today's young minds to bring forward their novel ideas. Today's gathering emphasizes our joint commitment to look for novel outcomes at the intersection of innovation and health care, Lord Darzi said.
The London event was held at the Royal Horticultural Halls on December 11 and was organised by WISH in collaboration with London-based Imperial College Health Partners and Imperial College's Institute of Global Health Innovation. During the event, WISH took the opportunity to showcase talented young Arab innovators including Dr Ahmad Nabeel from Kuwait, inventor of ‘Virtual Beam and the Self-Cleaning Laparoscope', which offers an innovative way of cleaning a laparoscope's lens without having to remove the laparoscope from the patient, thereby minimizing risk of infection and significantly cutting surgery time. He was a finalist on Qatar Foundation's TV show Stars Of Science last month.
Also present at the London event was Syrian entrepreneur Anwar Almojarkesh, also a Stars Of Science alumnus. Almojarkesh demonstrated his ‘Braci' technology, which uses a mobile application to provide communication support for people with hearing loss and also for the elderly, their families, and carers.
More than 200 health experts attended the London Innovation in Healthcare Summit from the UK, US, Qatar and Kuwait. Among the attendees from Qatar were UK-based Qatari students taking part in the Qatar Research Leadership Program, a program supported by Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), part of Qatar Foundation Research and Development.
At the invitation of WISH, the eye health charity Orbis used the event to take delegates on a virtual tour of their Flying Eye Hospital and demonstrate a range of eye health related innovations. Eye health was recently announced as the first of nine topics that will be the focus of WISH research in the months leading up to WISH 2018. Another eight topics will be announced over the coming months and will focus on a range of medical, social, humanitarian, and policy-driven areas.
To apply for WISH 2018 Young Innovators Competition, click here http://bit.ly/2jsAK9m
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