This award was introduced in the memory of
Shri Krishnaswamy Subrahmaniam, late CEO of Vattikuti Technologies, to recognize his outstanding contributions in establishing robotic surgery in India.
The Vattikuti Foundation believes in leveraging technological innovation and surgeon education to improve patient outcomes. The KS International Innovation Awards is one such activity of the Foundation conducted with an intent to exhilarate surgical innovation with a competitive spirit at the global level. We hope it will promote best practices to evolve into standards of care.
This award was introduced in the memory of
Shri Krishnaswamy Subrahmaniam, late CEO of Vattikuti Technologies, to recognize his outstanding contributions in establishing robotic surgery in India.
The 2024 KS International Innovation Awards featured two tracks for the competition: one for innovative procedures and one for innovative use of new technologies. Both tracks deomstrate the use of innovation and technology to support surgical outcomes.
There was a significant focus on Data Science and the novel presentations from Vattikuti Innovators Challenge, higlighting bright young medical students interested in innovation in medicine.
The 2023 KS International Innovation Awards and academic symposium, Humans at the Cutting Edge of Robotic Surgery, was held in partnership with Orsi Academy in Ghent, Belgium. This three-day event covered 10 specialties.
Newly initiated robotic surgeons to be face-to-face and learn from the experience of giants in their field.
The goal of the awards is to recognize surgical talent and share new, cutting-edge educational robotic surgery videos with the world.
The 2022 KS International Innovation Awards contest attracted 92 entries, with registrants from 79 countries. Submissions received from 12 countries were subjected to a multi-step selection process set up by a high-powered international jury. In addition to Urology (75%), surgical specialties such as Gynecology, Head and Neck, Thoracic, Kidney Transplantation, Joint Replacement, Colorectal, Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic, GI, Pediatrics and even new robotic platforms were well represented. Major judging criteria were Innovation, level of evidence to support the validity of the claim made, and the overall technical quality of the video. The award ceremony was held November 19, 2022 in Miami, Florida, USA.
The day of the awards ceremony was an academic symposium, Humans at the Cutting Edge of Robotic Surgery. The agenda focused on 27 entries which were hand-picked to build a state-of-the-art program to recognize meritorious and high-ranking participants and to give opportunity to present their work in-person before a select group of accomplished peers for an intense discussion.
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