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Dr Carlos O’Connor, from Quirónsalud Campo de Gibraltar and Marbella Hospitals. Credit score: Quirónsalud
Specialist in otolaryngology, Dr O’Connor has developed superior surgical strategies and telemedicine platforms to enhance care in rural areas. Grupo Joly, which awards these prizes, highlighted his mixture of scientific excellence and social dedication, notably in the direction of susceptible teams, via the Airway Health club app, which focuses on sleep apnoea.
Co-director of the Otolaryngology Division at Quirónsalud Campo de Gibraltar Hospital and Quirónsalud Marbella Hospital, Dr Carlos O’Connor, acquired on Thursday, 13 November, one of many Sustainable Innovation Awards granted by Grupo Joly and BBVA within the Social Innovation class.
Dr O’Connor acquired the award at a gala held on the Parador de Cádiz, attended by representatives from Andalusia’s financial, institutional, and educational sectors. Grupo Joly highlighted that the award recognises Dr O’Connor’s improvement of “superior surgical strategies and telemedicine platforms to enhance care in rural areas” and famous his “mixture of scientific excellence and social dedication, notably with susceptible teams.”
Talking in regards to the award, Dr O’Connor mentioned it represents “a really particular recognition, because it highlights greater than a decade of scientific and scientific work aimed toward enhancing the standard of lifetime of sufferers with sleep apnoea via digital innovation.”
The otolaryngology specialist emphasised the position of Quirónsalud in attaining this accolade, notably with Airway Health club, a cellular software for treating sleep apnoea via myofunctional workouts: “Airway Health club was created inside the Quirónsalud surroundings, which offered me with the construction, freedom, and help essential to develop a strong scientific analysis challenge, remodel it right into a validated digital software, and finally exhibit its effectiveness in managed trials.” He added, “With out the institutional and human help of Quirónsalud, Airway Health club merely wouldn’t have existed.”
Dr O’Connor additionally confused that “the collaboration of the group’s numerous hospitals – together with Quirónsalud Campo de Gibraltar and Quirónsalud Marbella – has been important to generate information, recruit sufferers, and consolidate a line of innovation now recognised nationally and internationally.”
For the specialist, the award “doesn’t belong solely to the challenge, but additionally to all of the Quirónsalud professionals (pulmonologists, anaesthetists, speech therapists, ENT specialists, and dentists from each hospitals) who imagine in analysis, innovation, and patient-centred drugs and whose contribution has been indispensable to receiving it.”
Dr O’Connor’s shut ties with Quirónsalud have been already evident in June, when he was awarded the Technological Innovation Prize as a part of the Quirónsalud Analysis Awards in the course of the VII Quirónsalud Analysis Convention, held within the Aula Magna of the Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, for the design and use of his cellular app to deal with obstructive sleep apnoea via myofunctional remedy.
Quirónsalud in Andalucia
Quirónsalud Hospital Group at the moment operates eight hospitals in Andalusia, situated in Málaga, Marbella, Los Barrios (Cádiz), three in Seville (Sagrado Corazón, Infanta Luisa, Materno-Infantil), Córdoba, and Huelva, along with 18 specialist and diagnostic medical centres and two surgical day hospitals in Seville and Málaga, making it the main non-public hospital group within the area.
About Quirónsalud
Quirónsalud is Spain’s main healthcare group and, along with its dad or mum firm Fresenius-Helios, additionally a pacesetter in Europe. Along with its operations in Spain, Quirónsalud is current in Latin America. It has over 50,000 professionals throughout greater than 180 healthcare centres, together with 57 hospitals with over 8,000 beds. The group combines cutting-edge know-how with a crew of extremely specialised and internationally famend professionals. Its centres embody Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Centro Médico Teknon, Ruber Internacional, Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud Madrid, Hospital Quirónsalud Barcelona, Hospital Universitari Dexeus, Policlínica Gipuzkoa, Hospital Universitari Basic de Catalunya, Hospital Quirónsalud Sagrado Corazón, amongst others.
The group promotes schooling (eleven of its hospitals are university-affiliated) and medical-scientific analysis (via the FJD Well being Analysis Institute, accredited by the Ministry of Science and Innovation). Its care providers are organised into transversal models and networks, permitting optimisation of information throughout centres and scientific translation of analysis. Quirónsalud is at the moment growing quite a few analysis tasks throughout Spain, with a lot of its centres pioneering advances in specialties similar to oncology, cardiology, endocrinology, gynaecology, and neurology.
