SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital and Stratasys Open Doors for Advanced Medical Innovation with 3D Printing in “Center of Excellence”

Medical 3D printing center designed to accelerate best-practices for
more effective surgical planning and better patient outcomes

Stratasys J750 full-color, multi-material 3D printer empowers doctors
and surgeons to accurately re-create and model the most complex
anatomical structures in unmatched 3D printed materials and colors

MINNEAPOLIS & REHOVOT, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Stratasys
(NASDAQ: SSYS), a global leader in applied additive technology
solutions, today announced it is teaming with SSM Health Cardinal
Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri to launch an advanced
3D printing “Center of Excellence” – designed to accelerate innovation
in pre-surgical preparedness, medical research and patient treatment.
Open now, the center leverages Stratasys 3D printing technology to
develop and share best-practices throughout a range of specialties
including neurosurgery, orthopedics, cardiac treatment, as well as hand
and cranial maxillofacial reconstructive surgery.

Listed by U.S. News and World Report as a “Best Children’s
Hospital,” this nationally-ranked pediatric academic medical center
fully invests in the latest technologies to serve medical needs of
children today and tomorrow. At the foundation of this commitment is
Stratasys 3D printing technology, encouraging SLUCare (the physician
practice at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital) doctors and surgeons
to explore new approaches for advancing patient well-being. SSM Health
Cardinal Glennon currently leverages the Stratasys J750 3D Printer – the
world’s only full-color, multi-material solution delivering unmatched
material versatility and realism.

“As a leading pediatric care and academic research facility, we’re
committed to continuous improvement by harnessing cutting-edge tools
like 3D printing. The Stratasys J750 full-color, multi-material 3D
printing solution allows us to do just that – powering unprecedented
breakthroughs in planning and treatment,” said Steven Burghart,
President of SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. “Our
Center of Excellence stems from a long-standing partnership with
Stratasys, working together to raise the bar in all that’s possible in
patient care.”

The Stratasys J750 3D Printer enables medical facilities to build highly
realistic, patient-specific anatomical models with consistent color
results and lifelike textures. Based on PolyJet technology, the system
combines both flexible and rigid plastics in a single print to
accurately mimic hard bone and soft tissues. Fine resolution recreates
minute details such as thin vascular walls, while blended transitions
and transparencies consistently produce anatomically correct properties.

Alexander Lin, MD, FACS, SLUCare plastic surgeon, is the co-founder of
the 3D Printing Center at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon and also serves as
its surgical director. According to Dr. Lin, “3D printing provides
increased confidence in the operating room and results in a faster, more
efficient operation. In a recent plastic surgery reconstruction of a
skull defect, we used a 3D printed intraoperative guide that matched the
skull defect precisely. Without hesitation, we could use this guide to
create a precisely shaped bone graft that perfectly matched the skull
defect. In the past, this process would have been estimated, which can
lead to longer surgery with higher risk of brain and blood loss, and a
less precisely fitted reconstruction.”

“Numerous advances have expanded treatment options for patients,
particularly those who need highly advanced medical care,” says Scott
Rader, GM of Healthcare Solutions at Stratasys. “Stratasys depends on
our clinical partners to demonstrate patient benefit using 3D printing
in training and the flow of patient care. To fully realize Dr. Lin’s
vision of optimizing treatment, there needs to be greater collaboration
between industry and thought leading institutions to create standards,
best-practices and to develop the fact base on how to get the most from
a hospital-based 3D printing program. Led by some of the industry’s most
respected medical professionals and backed by Stratasys technology, SSM
Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital’s new Center of Excellence
will quickly become the gold standard that demonstrates all that can be
accomplished with medical 3D printing.”

Since 1956, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital has offered
the highest level of care as the country’s only free-standing,
non-profit Catholic pediatric hospital. Located in St. Louis, MO, SSM
Health Cardinal Glennon provides hope to thousands of children with
complex conditions from Missouri, Illinois and beyond. A member of SSM
Health, one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the county,
the 195-bed teaching hospital is staffed by SLUCare physicians
affiliated with the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. Since
2013, U.S. News & World Report has recognized SSM Health Cardinal
Glennon as a Best Children's Hospital. In every way, SSM Health
Cardinal Glennon lives out the SSM Health mission, “Through our
exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of God.”

Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) is a global leader in applied additive
technology solutions for industries including Aerospace, Automotive,
Healthcare, Consumer Products and Education. For nearly 30 years, a deep
and ongoing focus on customers’ business requirements has fueled
purposeful innovations—1,200 granted and pending additive technology
patents to date—that create new value across product lifecycle
processes, from design prototypes to manufacturing tools and final
production parts. The Stratasys 3D printing ecosystem of solutions and
expertise—advanced materials; software with voxel level control;
precise, repeatable and reliable FDM and PolyJet 3D printers;
application-based expert services; on-demand parts and industry-defining
partnerships—works to ensure seamless integration into each customer’s
evolving workflow. Fulfilling the real-world potential of additive,
Stratasys delivers breakthrough industry-specific applications that
accelerate business processes, optimize value chains and drive business
performance improvements for thousands of future-ready leaders around
the world.

Corporate Headquarters: Minneapolis, Minnesota and Rehovot, Israel.
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