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6th Clinical Innovation Competition Congratulations!

Published: 16 May 2023

Dear Colleagues and Trainees,

Last week at the 6th Clinical Innovation Competition, which showcases the top innovations of the entire Faculty of Medicine and Health Science and its nine-affiliated hospitals, the Department of Surgery was outstandingly represented!

Our members won two of the three prejudged prizes for targeted innovation areas. Likewise, of the five finalist companies, three were from our Department and two of these were student-run companies that evolved from our Innovation Masters Program.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Anie Philip, Shikha Chawla, Kenneth Finnson, Jini John, Tenzin Kungyal and their company PL Signals who won the 1st place Hakim Family Innovation Prize!

Congratulations to Dr. Geraldine Merle and Dr. Ed Harvery who won both the 1st place MI4 innovation prize and also the Bereskin Parr Innovation prize with their company Bacpen.

There were two student innovation teams in the final, MedTQ (Ludovic Mouttet, Romy Philip, Lora Tzaneva, Gabriella Spacagna, Quentin Bodineau, Victoria Peuriotand) CapmAI, (Puja Pachchigar, Pranay Dixit, Emile Normand and Xiang Chen Zhu), from our graduate program who beat 30 other innovation teams to make it to the final, a huge achievement given that their path to innovation began in January this year and took place once a week in class supported by a budget of $200 each for materials.

The Marika Roy Simnovation prize was won by Petit VR, led by Dan Poenaru and Elena Guadagno from Paediatric Surgery and Dr. Fabio Botelho and Hamed Ranjbar from the Experimental Surgery Program.

Their representation of the Department has been truly exemplary, and we extend our heartfelt congratulations to all of you. To those that entered but were not selected we look forward to your future successes.

To the Clinical Innovation students, your hard work, innovative thinking, and dedication have shone brightly throughout the competition. Your ability to apply your knowledge and skills to real-world challenges is truly commendable. Your success in the CLIC competition is a testament to your talent, passion, and commitment to making a difference in clinical innovation and we are proud of you all.

This is the second year in a row that the Department of Surgery has won the competition and the success of last year’s winner led by Dr. Ouellet has been truly remarkable, (https://momentum.health/ ).

Once again, congratulations to each one of you for representing the Department so well and kudos to all participants regardless of the competition outcome. We are thrilled to have such exceptional innovators as part of our team, and we look forward to your future accomplishments, for those of you who are keen to be involved in future please reach out the RI-MUHC’s clinical innovation platform, (anne.mathiot [at] muhc.mcgill.ca).

Best regards,

Fackson Mwale, Jake Barralet, and Liane Feldman

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