COSMIC Leadership Transition Announcement

Philip Edgcumbe is stepping down from his role as co-lead of COSMIC to focus on studying and preparing for his medical residency. He would love to keep working on COSMIC but he has to be ready to start his diagnostic radiology residency at St. Paul's Hospital on July 1st.

Fortunately, Brad Bycraft, an experienced entrepreneurial technology leader and friend of Philip's, has kindly volunteered to take over Philip's role as COSMIC co-lead. At the Thursday, May 14th COSMIC strategy and senior leadership meeting, Philip and team filmed this video. It is a video to say thank you and goodbye* to Philip and welcome Brad to COSMIC.

Philip will no longer be working on the day to day activities of COSMIC. However, he will continue to be a member of the COSMIC strategy team.

*goodbye: It is goodbye for now from the daily activities of COSMIC. However, once residency gets started, if Philip is finding it manageable, he would love to get back involved in COSMIC in some way.

About COSMIC:
Our mission at Collective Open Source Medical Innovations for COVID-19 (COSMIC -www.cosmicmedical.ca) is to create abundant access to medical equipment in BC and around the world through open-source design solutions. Our first priority is to help in the global response to COVID by designing and building low-cost ventilators and other respiratory support equipment for use within the BC health system and developing countries. We are designing and manufacturing face masks, non-invasive positive pressure ventilation solutions and low-cost ventilators for invasive positive pressure ventilation.

COSMIC is a team of over 130 volunteer students, engineers, doctors, makers, and designers from Vancouver and the global community. Collectively, we raised $25,000 in donations and also received $100,000 via the Roche Canada COVID-10 Open Innovation Challenge. There were 840 applications for projects bringing forward innovative ideas to address some of the biggest challenges and issues of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Learn more about our work, sign up to volunteer or sign up to donate at our website at www.cosmicmedical.ca.