X8 CANADA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director of Undergraduate Medical Education for the Department of Ophthalmology
Dr. Michael Hawke is a Professor Emeritus, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Toronto. He is one of the pioneers in medical photography and has a true passion for it, having amassed over 10,000 photographs of the ear in his personal library. These photographs were captured using telescopic techniques that he also helped pioneer. We were honoured and fortunate to have Dr. Hawke act as a consultant in the development of OtoSim™ and grateful to him for granting OtoSim Inc exclusivity to his collection of medical photographs.
Dr. Paolo Campisi is a co-inventor of OtoSim™. He is a paediatric otolaryngologist in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children. He is Professor and Vice Chair of Education, and the Director of Postgraduate Education (formerly Director of Undergraduate Education) in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at the University of Toronto. Dr. Campisi led the validation of teaching protocols for medical students in developing OtoSim™, confirming the benefits of OtoSim™ by demonstrating significant improvement in students' diagnostic accuracy.
Job Titles:
- CEO and Chairman of the Board of OtoSim Inc
Dr. Vito Forte is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of OtoSim Inc, and a co-inventor of OtoSim™. Dr. Forte retired from clinical practice in 2015 as a Paediatric Otolaryngologist and former Otolaryngologist-in-Chief and Associate Surgeon-in-Chief at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). He remains a full Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. His acquired skill set, lifelong passion for teaching, engineering and innovation are now being deployed as a Liaison Officer in the Department of Surgery to create a better translation link between clinicians and engineers. In 2013, he was one of the recipients of the 2013 Canadian Association of Medical Educators (CAME) Certificate of Merit Award. In 2015, he was the recipient of the The Ernest C. Manning Foundation Innovation Award. This is awarded annually to talented Canadian innovators who are improving the lives of Canadians and others worldwide through their commercialized innovations. This award recognizes innovators for the value they are adding to our provincial and national economies by creating jobs and wealth, and positioning our country as a global competitor.