Dr. Peter Nichol

Dr. Peter Nichol is a minimally invasive pediatric surgeon, developmental biologist and Chief Medical Officer of MedAware systems. He helped develop the first and only mega-analytics platform to serve consumers, healthcare providers and the BioPharma/BioTech industry with the light speed analytics of the compendium of the entire clinical trials and clinical outcome literature.

Occam’s Razor & OR: The Simplest Solution for Reducing Bio-Burden on Surgical Tools

If surgical instruments are not cleared of bio-burden (meaning detectable biological contamination from the previous case), disaster unfolds. If a patient is harmed by exposure to a poorly processed surgical instrument, it gets out in the press; the Joint Commission descends upon the institution and everything shuts down.

Dr. Peter Nichol