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17th Annual Congress of the International Society for Gynecologic Endoscopy, Bari, Italy
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SimSurgery® AS appoints new CEO
Oslo, 31 October 2006 - SimSurgery® AS today announced that they have appointed Vidar Sørhus as Chief Executive Officer of the company. A promotion from the position as Chief Operational Officer, his primary role at SimSurgery® AS will now be to bring the commercialization of the company forward and to maintain the company in the forefront of surgical simulation.Vidar Sørhus holds a MSc in control theory and a PhD in medical technology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Sørhus has been with SimSurgery® since 2000 and has had the position as COO during the last years.
Co-founder and currently CEO, Jan Sigurd Røtnes, MD, PhD is leaving the company to pursue his medical career at the Directorate for Health and Social Affairs (SHdir). He will be leading the department with national responsibilities for Guidelines, Priorities and Quality. Røtnes has been Chief Executive Officer since the establishment of the company i 1999. Røtnes will continue his commitment to the company as a member of the board.
Erik Langaker, Chairman, SimSurgery® AS, said, "During the last months, Vidar Sørhus has been responsible for the successful development of the new product platform, which will be an important value driver for the company in the future. With his economical and technological focus, I believe that Vidar Sørhus will further accelerate the positive trend of the company".
October 2006
SEP™ - SurgicalSim Education Platform was exhibited and used at
the "108ème Congrès Français de Chirurgie
et 2ème Congrès de Chirurgie de la
Francophonie"
2-4 Oct, Paris : "Palais des Congres de Paris".
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September 2006
SEP™ - SurgicalSim Education Platform was used during training courses and exhibited at 10th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery
and
14th International Congress of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES)
September 13 – 16, Berlin, Germany
http://congresses.eaes-eur.org/
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Juli 2006
First Dutch VR division-broad congress, August 30, Utrecht, Netherland
June 2006
SEP™ - SurgicalSim Education Platform was exhibited and used in the surgical workshop at: the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine (SESAM2006), June 29 -July 1, Porto, Portugal
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May 2006
SEP™ - SurgicalSim Education Platform was exhibited at: 123. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie (German Surgical Congress) in Berlin, 2-6 May, 2006
The Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI) Annual Scientific Meeting, Edinburgh, 3-5 Mai, 2006
April 2006
SEP™ - SurgicalSim Education Platform was used during training courses and exhibited at SAGES 2006 Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas, USA April 26-29.
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"Sages 2006"
SEP™ - the robot was used at the learning center for training robotic suturing techniques.
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"Sages Robot 2006"
March 2006
SimSurgery® is proud to announce that our Company and our surgical simulator SEP™ has been appointed as one of the 20 winners of the European ICT Prize.
The winners of the ICT Prize were proposed to the European Commision by Euro-CASE, based on the evaluation by independent experts from 16 countries.
The European ICT Prize Awards Ceremony took place on March 23, 2006 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
For further information, please see: http://www.ICT-prize.org/
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"ICT winners"
February 2006
SEP - SurgicalSim Education Platform was demonstrated during the Human Patient Simulator Network meeting in Tampa, USA – organized by Medical Education Technologies, Inc. METI Feb 28 - March 3.
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"SEP™ was demonstrated during the Human Patient Simulator Network meeting"
January 24 - 27, 2006
SimSurgery® demonstrated SEP™-Robot in the TATRC exhibit at the MMVR conference (Medicine Meets Virtual Reality) in Los Angeles.
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"SEP™-Robot is demonstrated at MMVR"
January 23 - 25, 2006
SimSurgery® demonstrated SEP™ at les XXXVI èmes Journées de Chirurgie digestive de l’Hôpital Saint-Antoine in Paris.
2005:
December 2005
Awarded funding from TATRC for Development of a Portable Simulator
for
Training Robot Assisted Surgery.
TATRC: Telemedicine
& Advanced Technology Research Center, US Army
Medical Research & Materiel Command
December 7, 2005
SimSurgery® distributor in Japan, Muranaka Medical Instruments Co. Ltd., had a successful introduction of SEP - SurgicalSim Education Platform, at the 18th Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Endoscope Surgery in Tokyo, December 7-9, 2005.
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"SEP™ at the 18th Annual Meeting of Japan Society for
Endoscope Surgery in Tokyo."
November 30, 2005
SimSurgery® demonstrating SEP™ at the European ICT Prize Exhibition at the European Commission in Brussels, 30 November – 1 December 2005.
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"SEP™ at the European ICT Prize Exhibition at the European Commission."
November 18, 2005
State Secretary Karin Yrvin from the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry visited SimSurgery®, together with a delegation from the Ministry and from the Ministry of Health and Care Services and the Ministry of Modernisation. The State Secretary congratulated SimSurgery® on being nominated to the European ICT Grand Prize, and also got a chance to try out the SEP™ simulator.
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"Karin Yrvin from the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry tries out the SEP™ simulator."
October 16-20, 2005
Our US partner METI (www.meti.com) demonstrated SEP™ at ACS,
American College of Surgeons Annual Clinical Congress
San Francisco, USA
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"Two SEP™ simulators exhibited at ACS by METI"
September 28-30, 2005
SimSurgery® demonstrated SEP™ at 107 congres Francais de Chirurgie, Paris
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"The SimSurgery® booth with SEP™. One of the visitors is the popular French actor Thierry Lhermitte."
September 14-17, 2005
Our US partner METI (www.meti.com) demonstrated SEP™ at
the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons 14th International Annual Meeting
San Diego, California, USA
August 22-26, 2005
SimSurgery® demonstrated SEP™ at the Swedish Surgical Week
Gävle, Sweden
June 1-4, 2005
SimSurgery® demonstrated SEP™ at EAES, Venice, Italy
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"The SimSurgery® booth at EAES, where SEP™ was demonstrated with both the SimPack™ and Xitact surgical interface (ITP)."
April 13-16, 2005
SimSurgery® demonstrated SEP™ at SAGES, Florida, USA (together with our US partner METI)
2004:
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SimSurgery® and METI (Medical Education Technologies, Inc.) launch new SimSurgery Education Platform (SEP™) at the American College of Surgeons clinical congress in New Orleans, October 10-14th, 2004
New equity from private investors.
Obtain development grants from the Norwegian Research Council.
Launch EUREKA project together with IRCAD, INRIA, France Telecom R&D and Karl Storz.
Complete joint development of surgical simulator for the da Vinci robot with Intuitive Surgical.
Start R&D collaboration with Ullevål University Hospital in Oslo
Presentations at:
European Association for Endoscopic Surgery in Barcelona, Spain
2003:
Launch Mist Suture
Presentations at:
The SAGES meeting in Los Angeles, USA
European Association for Endoscopic Surgery in Glasgow, UK
The meeting of American College of Surgeons in Chicago, USA
2002:
Presentations at:
Medicine Meets Virtual Reality in California, USA
The SAGES meeting in New York, USA
European Association for Endoscopic Surgery in Lisbon, Portugal
The meeting of American College of Surgeons in San Francisco, USA
2001:
Core Sim3DM® platform was established
Presentations at:
Medicine Meets Virtual Reality in California, USA
The meeting of American College of Surgeons in New Orleans, USA
2000:
The core development group was established, consisting of experts in the field of medicine, surgical simulation and haptics, and the development of the software kernel was started.
1999:
SimSurgery® was established with initial funding from the Norwegian state (SND), Mobile Media and the Interventional Centre. The company had a founding staff of one researcher coming from the Interventional Centre, (Jan Sigurd Røtnes, MD, PhD, MSc), and two reasearchers from Sintef Applied Mathematics, (Johannes Kaasa, MSc and Geir Westgaard, PhD).
Background
SimSurgery® originates from 3 leading knowledge based groups in Oslo, Norway:- The Interventional Centre, established at Rikshospitalet (the National Hospital of Norway) with initial funding of USD 13 mill, with focus on surgical simulators and robotics
- Mobile Media, a leading provider of 3D animation technologies and mobile services
- Sintef Applied Mathematics, a world leading scientific center in the field of Geometry and Mathematical Modelling
The need for surgical simulators was realized and research projects were started, leading up to the establishment of SimSurgery®.
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