Being a university med student is hard enough, but Athy Ambikkumar is adding to that challenge by running a company.
He co-founded Remote Optical and has been selected as a finalist in the Student Entrepreneur National Competition hosted by Enactus and HSBC Bank Canada."It shouldn't be feasible, but somehow we make it work and so I cannot exaggerate how excited I am to meet all the other students who have come up with amazing projects in this competition."
Remote Optical uses a special light-sensitive camera to take a series of photos of an eye and then send the data to an ophthalmologist."But at this time, the goal of the project is to use light field data to mimic the 3D dynamics that come with the slit lamp exam."He's now an ophthalmology resident physician at the University of Calgary.
Jeremy Zwaig is a co-founder and says Remote Optical will have the ability to help people in remote areas all over the world."Especially people who live in rural or remote communities," he said. Tyler Maddigan is the manager of marketing and communications for Enactus Canada, the country's largest post-secondary experiential learning platform focusing on creating student entrepreneurs and helping students across the country make a real impact through the use of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise.
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