Collaborators

We consider our on-going and trusted relationships with our clients and collaborators to be our greatest achievement. Our shared commitment to research and development has produced an extensive and diverse array of products. Many of these can be seen in the Products section of this site. What follows are highlights from nearly two decades of productive collaboration with companies and institutions worldwide.

Cardiothoracic

• Trauma Thoracotomy Trainer with Dr. Marc DeMoya, Massachusetts General Hospital
• VATS Trainers for Explants and with Mimetic Lung with Covidien
• Cannulatable Beating Heart and Retractable Sternum with Dr. David Grant, Bristol Simulation Centre (UK)
• Perfusion Beating Heart Trainer with Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin
• Heart Case Resident Training Kit with Dr. James Fann, Stanford University
• Pocket Vessel Anastomosis Kit for the Thoracic Surgery Directors Association (TSDA) with Dr. James Fann, Stanford University
• MICS Thorax for MIS CABG and Mitral Valve Repair with Medtronic Cardiovascular
• Patented four-chambered Beating Heart with realistic muscle mechanism for open and MIS off-pump procedure training
• Beating Heart with Clear Coronaries for the Mayo Clinic
• Fluoroscopic Heart with Zoll Medical
• Complete Mitral Valve Prolapse Repair Series for robotic procedure training with Intuitive Surgical and Dr. L. Wiley Nifong, East Carolina University
• Interactive Full Body EP Phantom with Guidant/Boston Scientific
• Ventricular Assist Device demonstrations for Micromed Technologies and NASA using the DeBakey VAD
• Robotic Beating Heart Trainer with Intuitive Surgical

General Surgery and Gastrointestinal

• Tactility Surgical Learning System with Dr. Neal Seymour and Dr. David Page, Baystate Health under a grant from the John Adams Innovation Institute
• Abdominal Surgical Trainer (AST) with Covidien
• ERCP Trainer with Boston Scientific
• EMS Trainer (Endoscopic Model System) with Boston Scientific
• Transoral Trainer with Endogastric Solutions
• Robotic Trainer Kit with Intuitive Surgical with interchangeable skills pods for introductory robotics training
• Belly Case Resident Training Kit with Baystate Health

Reproductive and Urological

• Uterine Trainer for robotic hysterectomy, myomectomy, & sacralcopolpexy with Intuitive Surgical
• Hysteroscopic Bipolar Trainer with Ethicon Women’s Health
• Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) Trainers for transobturator and suprapubic repair with Boston Scientific and Ethicon Women’s Health
• Laparoscopic Insufflated Abdomen for Prostatectomy with Intuitive Surgical and University of California, Irvine
• Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy (LRP) Trainer with Intuitive Surgical
• Pyeloplasty Trainer with UCLA

ENT

• Maxillary Sinus and Multi Sinus Trainers with Entellus Medical
• Oral Health Trainer with NYU College of Nursing

Orthopedics

• Hip Labrum Trainer with DePuy Mitek
• Dupuytren’s Contracture Trainer with Pfizer Europe

Pediatrics

• Surgical Sam Pediatric Trainer, the world’s first beating heart, breathing, bleeding team trainer with Dr. Peter Weinstock , Dr. Francis Fynn-Thompson, and Dr. David Mooney, Boston Children’s Hospital
• Orthopedic Femur Fracture with Dr. Peter Weinstock and Dr. Travis Matheney, Boston Children’s Hospital
• Fetus In Utero with Dr. Victor Han, London Health Sciences Centre / CSTAR

Reconstructive Plastic Surgery

• Breast Reconstruction Trainer with Dr. Alexes Hazen, NYU Dept. of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery

Vascular

• Transseptal Trainer with St. Jude Medical
• Femoral Access Trainer with St. Jude Medical

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Our Clients

The Chamberlain Group’s clients are based in over 50 countries worldwide and encompass industry leaders in medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and product development as well as medical centers, teaching institutions and researchers.

A partial list includes: