(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) will showcase Smile Train's Virtual Surgery Simulator, a cleft lip and palate surgical training tool as one of the world's 20 ground-breaking healthcare innovations at the second WISH Summit next month.
A game-changer in surgical education and training, the simulator is a 3D, web-based, interactive tool that provides users with information and training on cleft anatomy and surgical repair techniques.
The free tool offers a sustainable, accessible approach to surgical training and advances Smile Train's mission to provide a long-term, scalable solution to the global challenge of treating cleft lip and palate.
Since its founding in 1999, Smile Train has performed more than one million repair surgeries around the world. The organisation reaches over 350 children each day and 128,000 every year.
Susannah Schaefer, CEO, Smile Train, said: "The organisation is thrilled to be participating in the 2015 Summit to showcase our simulator alongside other innovators in global health. We're excited to share the simulator and our sustainable training model with experts tackling some of the most pressing and serious global health challenges facing governments, health systems and populations.
Since its launch in 2013, the simulator has become a key to our 'teach a man to fish' training model, which empowers and trains doctors to perform cleft surgery in their communities."
WISH's Innovation Showcases was opened up to global applicants and as a result has received 80 applications from 26 countries, covering all areas of health innovation from digital healthcare and new products to smart-systems and service updates. All applicants have the potential to transform global health but only were selected.
The selection was made by the Innovation Showcases Curation Team comprising Professor Lord Darzi of Denham, Executive Chair, WISH; Dr Hanan Al Kuwari, Managing Director, Hamad Medical Corporation; Tim Brown of global ideas consultancy IDEO; and Bright Simons, President, mPedigree Network, social innovator and entrepreneur.
Lord Darzi said: "Smile Train is an example of healthcare innovation that cleverly utilises technology to reduce the burden of costs on suppliers and ease the channel of distribution for practitioners. The end result is better patient care, faster treatment, reduced costs and improved results. That is what our Innovation Showcases aim to highlight, ways to simply and effectively improve global healthcare for all."
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