News Release
April 8, 2005
Contact: Charles Miller, 202-686-2210, ext. 357
Seattle Inventor to Receive Henry Heimlich Award
WASHINGTON – Seattle entrepreneur and businessman Christopher
Toly, president and chief executive of Simulab Corporation, will
be honored with the first Henry J. Heimlich Award for Innovative
Medicine by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM),
a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization. The award will
be presented to Toly on April 16 at PCRM’s 20th Anniversary
Celebration, hosted by actor Alec Baldwin and attended by a host
of other celebrities, including Alicia Silverstone, Daryl Hannah,
and singer Emmylou Harris.
Toly is the principal designer and inventor of the TraumaMan®
Surgical Training System, a patented technology that replaces the
use of live dogs in the training of surgeons and emergency physicians.
The lifelike device, which precisely models a human torso and even
bleeds when cut, is distributed worldwide and is used to train over
12,000 doctors each year. He also designed the LapTrainer with SimuVision™
for laparoscopic surgical training, which was recently recognized
by the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons as an “Innovation
of the Year” for 2004.
“Chris Toly developed a device that is not only much more
humane than dog labs; it provides much better training.” said
PCRM president and founder Neal Barnard, M.D. “He is a true
innovator, and a great many doctors—and dogs, too—have
reason to be grateful to him.”
Growing up in Spokane, Toly comes from a long line of entrepreneurs.
He spent over twenty years mastering reverse molding design, tool
making, prototyping, and production techniques. Simulab has developed
proprietary methods for manufacturing soft tissue models, which
have extremely lifelike features and currently holds four U.S. patents,
with an additional four pending.
Founded in 1985, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
is a nonprofit health organization that promotes preventive medicine,
especially good nutrition. PCRM also conducts clinical research
studies, opposes unethical human experimentation, and promotes alternatives
to animal research.
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