Dr Carlos O’connor From Quirónsalud Awarded Prize For Sustainable Innovation

Specialist successful otolaryngology, Dr O’Connor has developed precocious surgical techniques and telemedicine platforms to amended attraction successful agrarian areas. Grupo Joly, which awards these prizes, highlighted his operation of objective excellence and societal commitment, peculiarly towards susceptible groups, done nan Airway Gym app, which focuses connected slumber apnoea.

Co-director of nan Otolaryngology Department astatine Quirónsalud Campo de Gibraltar Hospital and Quirónsalud Marbella Hospital, Dr Carlos O’Connor, received connected Thursday, 13 November, 1 of nan Sustainable Innovation Awards granted by Grupo Joly and BBVA successful nan Social Innovation category.

Dr O’Connor received nan grant astatine a gala held astatine nan Parador de Cádiz, attended by representatives from Andalusia’s economic, institutional, and world sectors. Grupo Joly highlighted that nan grant recognises Dr O’Connor’s improvement of “advanced surgical techniques and telemedicine platforms to amended attraction successful agrarian areas” and noted his “combination of objective excellence and societal commitment, peculiarly pinch susceptible groups.”

Speaking astir nan award, Dr O’Connor said it represents “a very typical recognition, arsenic it highlights much than a decade of objective and technological activity aimed astatine improving nan value of life of patients pinch slumber apnoea done integer innovation.”

The otolaryngology master emphasised nan domiciled of Quirónsalud successful achieving this accolade, peculiarly pinch Airway Gym, a mobile exertion for treating slumber apnoea done myofunctional exercises: “Airway Gym was created wrong nan Quirónsalud environment, which provided maine pinch nan structure, freedom, and support basal to create a robust objective investigation project, toggle shape it into a validated integer tool, and yet show its effectiveness successful controlled trials.” He added, “Without nan organization and quality support of Quirónsalud, Airway Gym simply would not person existed.”

Dr O’Connor besides stressed that “the collaboration of nan group’s various hospitals – including Quirónsalud Campo de Gibraltar and Quirónsalud Marbella – has been basal to make knowledge, enlistee patients, and consolidate a statement of invention now recognised nationally and internationally.”

For nan specialist, nan grant “does not beryllium solely to nan project, but besides to each nan Quirónsalud professionals (pulmonologists, anaesthetists, reside therapists, ENT specialists, and dentists from some hospitals) who judge successful research, innovation, and patient-centred medicine and whose publication has been indispensable to receiving it.”

Dr O’Connor’s adjacent ties pinch Quirónsalud were already evident successful June, erstwhile he was awarded nan Technological Innovation Prize arsenic portion of nan Quirónsalud Research Awards during nan VII Quirónsalud Research Conference, held successful nan Aula Magna of nan Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, for nan creation and usage of his mobile app to dainty obstructive slumber apnoea done myofunctional therapy.

Quirónsalud successful Andalucia

Quirónsalud Hospital Group presently operates 8 hospitals successful Andalusia, located successful Málaga, Marbella, Los Barrios (Cádiz), 3 successful Seville (Sagrado Corazón, Infanta Luisa, Materno-Infantil), Córdoba, and Huelva, successful summation to 18 master and diagnostic aesculapian centres and 2 surgical time hospitals successful Seville and Málaga, making it nan starring backstage infirmary group successful nan region.

About Quirónsalud

Quirónsalud is Spain’s starring healthcare group and, together pinch its genitor institution Fresenius-Helios, besides a leader successful Europe. In summation to its operations successful Spain, Quirónsalud is coming successful Latin America. It has complete 50,000 professionals crossed much than 180 healthcare centres, including 57 hospitals pinch complete 8,000 beds. The group combines cutting-edge exertion pinch a squad of highly specialised and internationally renowned professionals. Its centres see Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Centro Médico Teknon, Ruber Internacional, Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud Madrid, Hospital Quirónsalud Barcelona, Hospital Universitari Dexeus, Policlínica Gipuzkoa, Hospital Universitari General de Catalunya, Hospital Quirónsalud Sagrado Corazón, among others.

The group promotes acquisition (eleven of its hospitals are university-affiliated) and medical-scientific investigation (through nan FJD Health Research Institute, accredited by nan Ministry of Science and Innovation). Its attraction services are organised into transversal units and networks, allowing optimisation of knowledge crossed centres and objective translator of research. Quirónsalud is presently processing galore investigation projects crossed Spain, pinch galore of its centres pioneering advances successful specialties specified arsenic oncology, cardiology, endocrinology, gynaecology, and neurology.

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