PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE Dr. George Adams
September 10, 2020
I was attracted to the Company in 2010 as the first VMS1.0 was being clinically evaluated. Dr. Mertens, who is one of the top paediatric cardiologists in the world, had just written a review on the “forgotten ventricle” and published it in Nature*. Everyone was beginning to understand that only analyzing the left side of the heart was ignoring half of the information about how the heart was functioning. 10 years ago only MRI could give you right-heart information and as a cardiologist told me at that time, it was traumatic for the doctor, the parents and the child to suggest a child or infant have an MRI. From then on, I was dedicated to creating the VMS to address this need.
I am often asked if 10 years later, I regret this decision and I certainly do not. Back in the early 80s I invented an artificial medium for platelet storage and licensed it to a major blood transfusion company. It is just now becoming the standard, 35 years later! Significant change in medical practice takes a long time. The promise of 3D ultrasound being able to routinely yield useful information for the right heart has not materialized and so the VMS approach remains the only way to get reliable accurate measurements without waiting 3 months for an MRI appointment and spending at least an hour in the machine.
Ventripoint really pioneered the use of artificial intelligence (AI) with its KBR approach and no-one has been able to find another way to get MRI-grade measurements from regular 2D ultrasound exams. Yes, it has taken a lot of time and money to perfect the VMS+3.0 so it is user-friendly and fits exactly into the workflow of an echocardiography service, but now we have it and are set to change the world and stop the trauma.
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