How Virtual Reality Sparks Medical Innovation | Justin Sutherland | TEDxKanata

We often approach innovation as a next step to achievements we have already built. What if we could adapt the way we innovate to create approaches that are completely new? Approaches that make us say: “if we’d thought of this sooner, we’d have been doing things this way the whole time”.

Justin Sutherland is a clinical medical physicist,
founder of realizeLAB, and co-founder of medtech startup Realize Medical. His experience as a researcher, teacher, medical physicist, and techpreneur inspires him to innovate the way young doctors learn…with virtual reality. Dr. Justin Sutherland is a clinical medical physicist at the Ottawa Hospital and CEO and Co-Founder of Realize Medical. He obtained his MSc in Medical Physics from McGill University and his PhD in Medical Physics from Carleton University.

At the Ottawa Hospital, Justin has pursued research in developing and applying novel virtual reality and tracking technologies in medicine, both with the department of radiology and the radiation medicine program. These efforts led to founding and leading realizeLAB, a research initiative from the Division of Medical Physics of the University of Ottawa Department of Radiology. The lab is currently pursuing a number of collaborative projects with radiologists, surgeons, and radiation oncologists throughout the Ottawa Hospital.

Justin’s latest venture brings him into the business world as CEO and Co-Founder of medtech startup Realize Medical—makers of the first platform for creating and interacting with 3D medical models entirely in virtual reality. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx