Seattle Inventor Receives Henry J. Heimlich Award for
Innovative Medicine
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| Henry J. Heimlich, M.D. |
This April, PCRM established the Henry J. Heimlich
Award for Innovative Medicine. Its first recipient is Seattle inventor
Chris Toly.
Dr. Henry Heimlich is known the world over for inventing the
Heimlich maneuver, an abdominal thrust used to save drowning
and choking victims. Yet this famous procedure is only one in
a long list of life-saving inventions by the Cornell-trained
surgeon. There’s the valve he developed to drain blood and air
from a chest wound, the method of teaching stroke victims to
swallow again, and the tiny tube that helps patients breathe
under local anesthesia. His ability to find innovative and surprisingly
simple solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems has saved
countless lives.
Dr. Heimlich’s work with PCRM began in the late 1980s
when he spoke out against the cruel dog-drowning experiments
some had proposed for testing the Heimlich maneuver. He later
helped with PCRM’s campaign to end the use of animals in medical
laboratories. The embodiment of innovation, Dr. Heimlich inspires
researchers and medical students to break convention, think creatively,
and focus on what counts: saving lives.
Chris Toly
Henry J. Heimlich Award Recipient
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| Chris Toly |
Seattle inventor Chris Toly has helped save both human and animal
lives with a synthetic model of a human torso known as TraumaMan.
Featuring simulated skin, subcutaneous fat, muscles, and organs,
TraumaMan bleeds when cut and is used annually by more than 12,000
doctors to practice their trauma skills. It is the only simulator
approved by the American College of Surgeons for use in its advanced
trauma life support courses; it is one of several cutting-edge
simulators designed by Toly.
Chris Toly is president and chief executive officer of Simulab
Corporation, an internationally renowned manufacturer of surgical
simulators and medical training models. Toly joined Simulab in
1996 and has led the company through its start-up phase to its
current successful status.
Born in Spokane, Washington, Toly comes from a family of entrepreneurs.
A lifelong manufacturer and inventor, Toly spent over 20 years
mastering reverse molding design, tool making, prototyping, and
production techniques. Simulab has developed proprietary methods
for manufacturing soft tissue models with extremely lifelike features
and currently holds four U.S. patents, with an additional four
pending. In addition to TraumaMan, Toly has designed models for
practicing central vascular catheterization and laparoscopic surgical
training.
Toly is committed to continued research and development of viable
new methods of medical training. This, and continued dedication
to finding realistic solutions for all types of surgical demonstration
models, is the cornerstone of Simulab’s success.
For more information about Simulab, visit its Web site at www.Simulab.com.
For more information about replacing the use of animals in trauma
training, please visit www.humanetraumatraining.org.
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