Associate Professor
University of Ottawa
Dr. Bromwich is the lead and clinical director of the Innovation Core at CHEO-RI. Dr. Bromwich is a Board Certified Otolaryngology Surgeon, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology and fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (FRCSC). Dr. Bromwich is the inventor of several medical devices and holds 5 other medical patents. He aims to democratize access to medical care by delivering innovative and inexpensive solutions to global audiences.
In 2005 Dr. Bromwich founded Clearwater (now SHOEBOX), which now employs over 100 people and develops and distributes medical devices worldwide and was recently acquired (2018). The SHOEBOX audiometer is a widely available hearing testing platform that has reached nearly 2 million people.
Dr. Bromwich has published >30 papers and four book chapters on Otolaryngology and has held more than 12.7 million dollars of grant, research and investment funds. In 2014 he won the national “TELUS Award for mHealth Innovation”. In 2016 he was nominated for the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year award and he and his team won the 2016 Interface Health Challenge for their work on mobile hearing testing and won the David E Mitchel prize at the 2018 Manning Innovation Awards.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Thursday, December 1, 2022
12:15pm – 2:45pm