Dr. Alaa Ahmad is a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon based in Palestine and the US, with a focus on paediatric spine surgery, and a special interest in disseminating knowledge about the management of spine surgery deformities among doctors in the global South. In February of this year, he flew to Nicaragua for the third time to carry out a week of paediatric scoliosis case ‘missions’ at Fernando Velez Paiz Hospital in Managua, and invited doctors from around the world to view the procedures via Proximie. One of these was Dr. Francois Waterkeyn — a neurosurgeon based in Tanzania.

The story of how Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram — inspired by her upbringing in Beirut, a magical first experience in an operating room and the Lancet Commission that revealed five billion people in the world lack access to safe surgery — sought to change the paradigm of surgery, by creating a platform that could scale surgical care beyond the four walls of an operating room. — Most great ideas never see the light of day.

Using Proximie, Professor Afshin Gangi, a globally-respected interventional radiologist from the University Hospital of Strasbourg, France, and president of The Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE), virtually scrubbed-in from France to collaborate with a team at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, including Consultant Interventional Radiologists Dr Shahzad Ilyas and Dr Athanasios Diamantopoulos, to ensure important cancer procedures could continue despite the emerging threat of the Omicron variant.

The first ever robotics surgery has taken place at the King Hussein Cancer Center (KHCC), in Amman, Jordan. Proximie’s state-of-the-art technology platform was used to enable a specialist robotics surgeon, based in the UK, to virtually scrub-in to the live procedure taking place almost 3,500 miles away in Jordan. — Proximie was rapidly deployed to enable a surgeon based in the UK to remotely proctor Jordan’s first-ever robotic surgery.

The Obstetric Safe Surgery (OSS) Project in Kenya is funded by Johnson & Johnson and to date has been implemented by Jhpiego as the lead organization, in collaboration with County and National Ministries of Health and professional associations. To support implementation moving forward, Proximie and Ariadne Labs have formed a unique partnership with Jhpiego to integrate Jhpiego’s best practices in safe obstetric surgery with Proximie’s state of the art technology platform to leverage multi-sensory augmented reality tools.

Eddy Haddad is Proximie’s Sales and Support Engineer based in Lebanon, from where he works closely with Proximie’s sales team to understand customer requirements and create solutions, enabling surgeons to make optimal use of the Proximie platform whatever their requirements. He is also key to implementing the Obstetric Safe Surgery Programme in Kenya; installing Proximie in a number of Kenyan hospitals to better facilitate optimal outcomes in childbirth.

Andreas Christodoulou has been an account manager at Proximie for three years, following the completion of his MA in Project Management at Northumbria University. He travels extensively to integrate Proximie’s software platform into operating rooms across the world. — In the past month alone, I have visited hospitals in six different countries to install Proximie. Broadly speaking, my role as account manager revolves around communicating Proximie to the customer; how it works, how it’s used and how it can be employed to expand their practice.

Liza Kimbo is Director of the South Lake Medical Centre in Kenya, having had a decades-long career as a healthcare services leader and entrepreneur with an interest in improving access to quality healthcare for low-income groups. Liza has started three social healthcare enterprises in Kenya using both for-profit and non-profit models; one of these is CFWshops, a network of medical clinics and micro-pharmacies providing access to essential healthcare across Kenya. Now, South Lake Medical Centre is seeking to provide increased access to medical expertise by using Proximie.

A data-lead at Proximie discusses the power of the platform’s software-first approach and the company’s ambitions to “establish a global ecosystem that is compliant and able to collect data from a wide variety of sources, from many different regions, patient types and surgeon backgrounds.” — It takes two weeks, from introduction to integration, for Proximie to get into any hospital, anywhere in the world. That’s one of the many things that sets Proximie apart; it’s very nimble in terms of being able to access the market and surgeons in order to quickly establish a data…