3D Innovation Series: RISE MD

Session Description

What role do 3D technologies play in innovation? Join the Gerstein + MADLab 3D Printing team for a guest talk and Q&A with the founders of U of T startup Rise MD, who have created an innovative surgical knot-tying board for medical trainees. The Temerty Faculty of Medicine students will share their journey from meeting at a 3D printing student club to prototyping their design, filing a patent and starting a company.

Please note that a valid TCard is required to enter Gerstein Science Information Centre.

Location: MADLab, Room B112 (at the south end of the first lower level), Gerstein Science Information Centre, 9 King’s College Circle
Moderator: Jia Xi (Mary) Chen, PhD candidate, Graduate Student Library Assistant, gerstein.3dprinting@utoronto.ca

Guest speaker bios:

Marco Istasy is a third-year medical student, researcher, and entrepreneur at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Prior to that, he obtained his Honours Bachelor of Science at the University of Toronto with a specialist in Neuroscience and a Master of Applied of Science at the University of Toronto with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, for which he was awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. His current entrepreneurial endeavours are at the confluence of technology and surgical innovation.

Tiffany Ni is a resident physician in the diagnostic radiology residency program at the University of Toronto. She completed her Bachelor of Medical Science with Honours Specialization in Physiology at Western University and her Master’s of Science in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto, where she was the recipient of the CIHR Canadian Graduate Scholarship in 2019. She then completed her Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of Toronto, where she was the founder of the 3D Printing in Medicine Organization. Her passion for medical imaging, innovation, and entrepreneurship has steered her focus towards interventional radiology, where she is excited about how these novel technologies will revolutionize interventional and minimally invasive procedures.