LONDON, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Smith Nephew (LSE: SN, NYSE: SNN), the medical generation company, announces the opening of Smith Nephew (S N) Academy Singapore, a leading medical education center and virtual innovation hub covering the Asia-Pacific region today, in the presence of M. Gan Kim Yong, Minister of Commerce and Industry of Singapore, Mr. Alex Bamford, Deputy High Commissioner of the United Kingdom in Singapore, and Deepak Nath, Managing Director of Smith Nephew.
Supporting the goal of Smith Nephew of Life Unlimited, S N Academy Singapore provides an engaging, immersive and interactive educational environment for healthcare professionals across the region to observe the newest products and technologies and refine their techniques under the guidance of trained colleagues.
Deepak Nath, CEO of Smith Nephew, said: “We are proud to open S N Academy Singapore, which will provide the right environment and team for thought leaders to challenge the prestige quo, refining new technologies and surgical techniques to deliver results. We look to the future to welcome healthcare professionals to this exclusive festival of medical innovation.
Myra Eskes, President APAC and Global Service, Smith Nephew, said, “Smith Nephew has a strong and successful business in Asia Pacific and ambitious expansion plans to bring our medical generation to more surgeons and nurses. The importance of education and practice Enjoyment cannot be overstated as we take consumers on this journey, and the new Academy will be instrumental in accessing the newest inventions to achieve better clinical outcomes.
S N Academy Singapore includes a set of long-term virtual operations that adds wearable robotics, 4K arthroscopy towers, surgical navigation tools, live streaming features, and touchscreen interfaces. A professional broadcast studio where experts can record and livestream surgical techniques to teach their fellow healthcare professionals around the world.
S N Academy Singapore has also fully supplied surgical superstations for hands-on procedural education across Smith Nephew’s portfolio in orthopaedic reconstruction, trauma, robotics, sports medicine, otolaryngology and complex wound management. Up to 3500 healthcare providers are expected to attend face-to-face courses at Singapore’s S N Academy until 2025, and another 5000 will be trained through virtual technology.
As a further commitment to medical innovation, S N Academy Singapore will partner with projects within the wider healthcare community, adding engagement with startups, early-stage investors and industry partners for the advancement of new innovations and medical establishments to utilize the newest educational infrastructure.
The opening courses come with flagship peer-to-peer systems designed in particular for the Asia-Pacific region under the brands INSPIRE™ for sports medicine and ASPIRE™ for orthopedic reconstruction and robotics. These courses will feature 50 leading foreign universities and peer education providers to two hundred Asia-Pacific fitness professionals.
At the core of Smith Nephew’s commitment to medical education and better patient outcomes is providing a comprehensive and available learning environment tailored to the wishes of healthcare professionals. Through S N Academy Singapore and other centers in the U. S. In the U. S. and Europe, we are actively transforming the way we teach our consumers around the world by surrounding them with cutting-edge technology, clinical content and clinical data.
Smith Nephew is a medical portfolio generation company focused on the repair, regeneration and replacement of soft and hard tissue. We exist to repair people’s bodies and self-confidence across generation to push life’s barriers. We call this purpose “Life Unlimited”. Our 18,000 employees fulfill this project every day, making a difference in the lives of patients through the excellence of our product portfolio, as well as the invention and application of new technologies in our 3 global orthopedics, sports and otolaryngological medicine and complex wound management. Franchises
Founded in Hull, UK, in 1856, we now operate in over a hundred countries and generate annual sales of $5200 million in 2021. Smith Nephew is part of the FTSEoneth (LSE: SN, NYSE: SNN). The terms “Group” and “Smith Nephew” are used to refer to Smith
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