Happy Birthday, Patient Innovation
! عيد ميلاد سعيد والابتكار المريض
Patient Innovation is celebrating its second anniversary!
It has been two years since the launch of the Patient
Innovation (PI) platform on February 7th 2014 at Católica-Lisbon
School of Business and Economics, which was the beginning of
a very collaborative and exciting journey. With the
beginning of 2016, we reached an important milestone:
more than 500 solutions developed by patients,
caregivers and collaborators from all over the world
(all of the continents and from over 30 countries) were
submitted to the platform and curated by our team.
These innovations are now being shared to improve the lives
of many patients who struggle with different health
conditions. We are grateful to all the patients, caregivers
and collaborators for sharing their innovations.
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Also, on January 28th, the
PI team met with the Advisory Board at MIT-Sloan School of
Management to discuss the progress and the future of
project, as well as to select the winners of the 2nd PI Awards, which will be
announced very soon.
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Apart from the Patient Innovation team, the following
Advisory Board members attended the meeting:
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Patient Innovation: one of eleven innovations featured at
the World Government Summit, in Dubai
Patient Innovation was one of eleven innovations from all
over the world distinguished by the office of Prime Minister
of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to be featured at the
4thWorld Government
Summit, in Dubai (February 8th – 10th 2016).
The World
Government Summit is a global event that promotes
the exchange of knowledge in areas such as: government,
technology and innovation. The event gathered more than 4000
world leaders, from over 90 countries.
The speakers in the event included the President of the
United States, Barack Obama; the President of the World Bank
Group, Jim Yong Kim; the Secretary-General of the OECD, José
Ángel Gurría; the Prime Minister of Egypt, Sherif Ismail;
the Former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson; the Former
President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon; the Former Prime
Minister of France, Dominique De Villepin, among many other
reputable individuals.
Patient innovation had a very prominent presence in the
summit, where a number of solutions were on display during
the event:
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PI was visited by a number of distinguished individuals,
including Professor Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank
and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and
Ruler of Dubai; Paula Kagame, President of Rwanda, just to
mention a few.
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Presenting Patient Innovation to Professor Muhammad Yunus,
Founder of Grameen Bank and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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Presenting Patient Innovation to H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and
Ruler of Dubai
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Presenting Patient Innovation to the President of Rwanda
Paul Kagame
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Adeeb Al-Balushi, 11 years old, from the UAE, is a young
inventor who built a lightweight prosthetic leg for his
father who suffers from poliomyelitis, visited PI and took a
picture with some members of the PI team. His solution can
be read here.
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Participating at the World Government Summit (more info here) was a great opportunity to
contact leaders from all continents, learn from them, share
the news about our project and establish new bridges that
will help PI go further and reach more people. We are
grateful to the office of the Prime Minister of UAE for the
invitation.
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All the best from the Patient Innovation Team
From left to right: Pedro Oliveira, Salomé Azevedo, Diana
Nunes, Helena Canhão, Ana Duarte, Leid Zejnilovic
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