{"id":22303,"date":"2017-02-03T14:32:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T19:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.127.56\/?p=22303\/"},"modified":"2017-04-03T10:15:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T14:15:51","slug":"the-ottawa-hospital-launches-canadas-first-medical-3d-printing-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/newsroom\/the-ottawa-hospital-launches-canadas-first-medical-3d-printing-program\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Hospital launches Canada\u2019s first Medical 3D Printing Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>February 3, 2017 <\/strong>\u2013 The Ottawa Hospital is pleased to announce the launch of the first hospital based, multi-departmental Medical 3D Printing Program in Canada. This program will improve surgical planning and enhance education and research in collaboration with the University of Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>The 3D printing program will allow doctors to produce models for the planning and practice of complex surgeries, develop prosthetics for patients, and create new research opportunities. This places the hospital\u2019s Medical Imaging Department at the forefront of international developments in radiology and moves The Ottawa Hospital closer to becoming one of North America\u2019s top hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c3D modelling will allow surgeons to create detailed anatomical plans in advance of the patient arriving in the operating room,\u201d says Dr. Frank Rybicki, Chief of Medical Imaging at The Ottawa Hospital and Chair of Radiology at the University of Ottawa. \u201cThis is about personalized medicine that reduces the need for invasive surgeries, lengthy anesthetics and ultimately improves outcomes at a reduced cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having this technology in-house will improve patient care and provide new ways to meet the medical needs of those who visit The Ottawa Hospital. It provides new opportunities for research and treatment, and will reduce operating times, resulting in better patient outcomes with fewer complications during surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important and exciting step as we move forward with our vision of providing 21<sup>st<\/sup>-century care for the people of eastern Ontario,\u201d says Dr. Jack Kitts, President and CEO of The Ottawa Hospital. \u201cOur 3D Medical Printing Program opens the door to many exciting and innovative research opportunities, but most importantly it will improve the care we provide for our patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Chang-Fong<br \/>\nCommunications Coordinator<br \/>\nThe Ottawa Hospital<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:schangfong@toh.ca\">schangfong@toh.ca<\/a><br \/>\nTel.: 613-798-5555 x71642<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 3, 2017 \u2013 The Ottawa Hospital is pleased to announce the launch of the first hospital based, multi-departmental Medical 3D Printing Program in Canada. This program will improve surgical planning and enhance education and research in collaboration with the University of Ottawa. The 3D printing program will allow doctors to produce models for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}