Nadine has given new meaning to the phrase remote working. She is a surgeon and clinical entrepreneur with a passion for technology and innovation and a desire to make a difference in the world. She is a consultant plastic surgeon and the clinical lead for innovation at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. In 2016, she founded Proximie, an augmented reality platform that allows doctors to be virtually present into any operating room, anywhere in the world, to visually and practically interact in an operation from start to finish.
This game-changing platform means surgeons can provide a real-time virtual presence in assisting and instructing in an operation. It aims to provide safe, accessible and cost-effective surgery to every patient around the world. It has been dubbed the “future of surgery” by CNN, and has gone from strength to strength and won multiple awards.
Proximie revolutionises the delivery and education of healthcare by reducing the cost of delivery while providing improved quality to the patient. Her innovation could have as dramatic an impact on humanity as the discovery of antiseptic or the use of robotics in the operating theatre.
One mother whose child received cleft palate surgery in a Peruvian village, directed by a surgeon in California, said “this technology gave my daughter her smile.”