Dr. Michel Kahaleh: How Global Partnerships Accelerate Innovation in Therapeutic Endoscopy
Medical innovation is assumed to travel downhill, from wealthy institutions toward everyone else. Dr. Michel Kahaleh’s career has run in the opposite direction often enough to make the assumption difficult to hold. He first encountered per-oral endoscopic myotomy at a conference in Latin America in 2011, watching a Japanese physician perform it, and he went to Japan to learn the technique from that physician directly.  The procedure treats achalasia by creating a tunnel between the epithelium and the muscular layer, then opening the muscle blocking food from passing into the…
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