Ananth Ravi | Source | President & CEO, Co-Founder at MOLLI Surgical
Ananth Ravi
Throughout his career, Ananth has sought to improve the patient experience. He is the only medical physicist ever to win the Human Touch Award, which recognizes a passion for improving the quality of care for cancer patients within Ontario.
Ananth has a history of peer-reviewed research focused on improving image guidance for medical procedures ranging from radiation to surgical oncology techniques. His primary focus has been on making precision surgery simpler through targeted innovation and increasing access to high-quality care. Ananth is a co-inventor on numerous patents and has garnered several grants for medical device innovations.
Ananth's commitment to improving the treatment process for patients inspired him to develop the magnetic tracking technology that resulted in the creation of MOLLI Surgical. Prior to co-founding the company, he was a certified medical physicist at Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre and clinical operations lead, brachytherapy. Under Ananth’s leadership, Sunnybrook’s brachytherapy program became one of the highest performing in the world.
Ananth completed his doctoral studies at the University of Toronto. He has held faculty appointments at Sunnybrook Research Institute, the University of Toronto, and Toronto Metropolitan University.
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Women's Imaging: Seeds of Progress - Radiology Today Magazine
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Innovations in medicine 2022
How award-winning Canadian technology can help overloaded hospitals By Ananth Ravi The ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to overwhelm Canada’s healthcare system. The surgical backlog that has built up in our hospitals since 2020 continues to come at a cost for patients and their families. In Ontario alone, hospitals this past spring were […]
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Empathy-Driven Innovation: Interview with MOLLI Surgical CEO Ananth Ravi | Medsider
Under the guidance of Ananth Ravi, MOLLI Surgical has developed an award-winning, wire-free soft tissue localization technology for breast cancer surgery. Their device, MOLLI, precisely marks the location of lesions for removal during surgery and is setting a new standard for patient comfort compared to traditional methods. In this interview, Ananth unpacks his story, touching upon the benefits of being in close contact with a medical ecosystem, the importance of intuitive design, the ideal role of regulatory consultants, and the funding strategies he employs for MOLLI.
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