Here is our second bonus episode explaining a technology that we believe will transform healthcare: Digital Twinning. A digital twin is a virtual representation of an object or system that is updated from real-time data, and uses simulation, machine learning and reasoning to help decision-making. With the help of a digital twin, companies can test and validate a product before it even exists in the real world. Generally, by creating a replica of the planned production process, a digital twin enables engineers to identify any process failures before the product goes into production. Going forward there will be a transition towards cheaper, more accessible, and easier to use digital twins culminating in its democratization. Individuals and smaller companies will have access to the benefits as well as larger companies, increasing the use of the technology rapidly.

Host: Em Tombash, MD, Todd Ponsky, MD & Ramy Shaaban, MD, PhD

Here is our first bonus episode explaining a technology that we believe will transform healthcare: 3D Printing. 3D printing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file. The process works by laying down thin layers of materials then fusing the layers together to create objects that range in shape, size, rigidity and color.

Medical devices produced by 3D printing include orthopedic and cranial implants, dental restorations, external prosthetics like hands and legs and surgical instruments such as forceps, hemostats, scalpel handles and clamps.

With 3D printing some devices are printed from a typical design to create multiple identical copies of the identical device. Other devices, called patient-specific devices, are created from a particular patient’s imaging data.

Host: Em Tombash, MD, Todd Ponsky, MD & Ramy Shaaban, MD, PhD

In this episode, hosts Em, Todd and Ramy are talking to Matt Bramlet, MD about his experience on 3D Printing & VR Surgical Planning and implementation of these technologies to their daily practice.

About Dr. Matt Bramlet...

Dr. Matthew Bramlet is the lead investigator for Advanced Imaging and Modeling at Jump Simulation. He specializes in children with congenital heart disease. In his role as the Director of Congenital Cardiac MRI at OSF HealthCare Children’s Hospital of Illinois, Dr. Bramlet combined the program’s resources with those at Jump to pioneer anatomically accurate 3D congenital heart models.

This expertise has led to Dr. Bramlet becoming a curator with the NIH 3D Print Exchange’s Heart Library, a nationwide collaborative effort to improve the education and understanding of congenital cardiac anatomy. He is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Pediatric Cardiology department at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria.

Here is our first bonus episode explaining a technology that we believe will transform healthcare: Metaverse. Metaverse is an integrated network of 3D virtual worlds. These worlds are accessed through a virtual reality headset and users navigate the metaverse using their eye movements, feedback controllers or voice commands.

Host: Em Tombash, MD, Todd Ponsky, MD & Ramy Shaaban, MD, PhD

Coming soon: hosted by Em Tombash, MD - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center research fellow. Join Em, her co-hosts Todd Ponsky, MD and Ramy Shaaban MD, PhD for a journey to find most innovative solutions which transform healthcare into something better, one technology at a time.