Our mission is to provide
universal access to ultrasound and
eliminate injuries for sonographers
that perform them.

Our Purpose

RMI Oceania was established in 2019 to develop and commercialise our Robotic Ultrasound Assistance System.

The device can hold any commercial ultrasound probe and allow sonographers to manoeuvre it from a remote location.

The system is designed to deliver a mobile, safe, rapid, and cost-effective solution and will allow health professionals to conduct ultrasound imaging procedures in regional and rural areas.

It will increase access to diagnostic imaging for remote and regional communities and reduce or eliminate the workplace disorders experienced by sonographers using conventional machines.

Company Development

The company was founded by Professor Adam Scott who had identified a major problem in the provision of effective cardiovascular medical services in Queensland’s regional, rural, and remote communities.

Prior to this, Professor Scott had implemented a very successful Tele-Cardiac Investigations program to deliver exercise stress testing and 24-hour Holter monitoring, via remote control operation, to 22 Queensland Health hospitals.

This program, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2020, became the catalyst for the establishment of RMI.

RMI’s system was initially developed in partnership with researchers from the internationally recognised Centre for Robotics at Queensland University of Technology.

RMI has been operating out of a Queensland Tertiary Public Hospital in Brisbane since the start of 2022. This has enabled training of sonographers on the system as well as clinical trials for cardiac and abdominal robotic ultrasound.

Remote validation trials are currently commencing at Longreach and Cloncurry with systems deployed to each location while the sonography hub remains in Brisbane, operated by local staff.

Our Team

Professor Andrew Coats
Non-Executive Chairman

Andrew is one of the world’s pre-eminent cardiologists and an experienced academic leader and entrepreneur with over three decades working in globally ranked top 50 Universities. He has over 750 peer-reviewed full papers, over 150,000 career citations and an H-Index of 157.

He has been named one of the top 1,000 researchers of all time by the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, and as the top cardiology researcher in Australia.

He is the author of more than 20 awarded patents and has launched three successful spin-out biotechnology companies with capital raises in excess of US$100 million and licensing deals of more than US$1 billion.

Andrew is a fully accredited physician and cardiologist in the United Kingdom and Australia, a qualified company director (London Business School MBA, Fellow Australian Institute of Company Directors and Member, Institute of Directors, London) with more than 60 board years of experience.

He holds two higher doctorates (DM, Oxon, and DSc, Imperial) for separate research areas and has held senior offices in 5 major Professional Societies, and has been President of the largest specialist society in his field (the Heart Failure Association).

Professor Adam Scott
Non-Executive Director

Adam is Director, Cardiac Sciences at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in Queensland. He also holds the position of Adjunct Professor with Queensland University of Technology in the School of Public Health and Social Work.

Adam is an experienced Health Director with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital and healthcare industry. He is skilled in clinical research, charity work, medical education, strategic planning, and lecturing, with a PhD focused in Cardiac Medicine from Imperial College London.

Adam is the clinical driving force behind the RMI tele-robotic ultrasound technology. This venture follows his world-first development of a cardiovascular tele-medicine clinical service via his remote-control operated cardiology program, including Holter monitoring and exercise stress testing, which was deployed across Queensland’s rural health facilities for rural and disadvantaged communities. This work was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine in 2020.

Anthony Hurley
Non-Executive Director

Anthony is the Managing Director of leading Australian importation and distribution organisation, Polymer Direct, which he established in 1997 following various strategic roles in the Australia petrochemical and raw materials sector.

Anthony contributes over 35 years of hands-on commercial and strategic planning experience, along with a strong understanding of supply chains and associated supporting financial services.  He has a substantial global business network, is a long-standing board member of the peak industry body PIPA, and sits on the advisory board of a major international supplier to the water, building and infrastructure sectors.

Anthony’s experience in bringing teams together to plan, execute and sustainably deliver innovative strategic and collaborative industry wide initiatives adds invaluable real world insight to RMI.

Mathew Saliba
Executive Director, Chief Executive Officer

Mathew is an experienced senior corporate financial and strategy professional with over 20 years of experience across investment banking, commercial banking and management consulting.

His experience includes senior positions with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan and National Australia Bank with experience across multiple geographies, including 10 years based in Asia.

Mathew has extensive corporate finance experience working with major global companies across a wide range of sectors.  This includes having led numerous M&A advisory and financing engagements for both listed and unlisted corporate clients.  In addition, advising clients on corporate strategy, risk management and capital structure optimisation.

Mathew holds a Bachelor of Commerce, a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, and a Master of Applied Finance all from the University of Melbourne and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Robert Sayegh
Chief Technology Officer and Head of Product Strategy

Robert has over 30 years extensive background in developing technical products and product strategy, as well as extensive medical device expertise of over 17 years.

Robert has gained his medical device experience with multinational MedTech companies including: Medtronic, Given Imaging (a Medtronic company), Siemens and Philips. He also has over 15 years’ experience in consulting and managing internal teams and vendors. Robert is leading RMI’s delivery and development team and guides RMI on its product strategy and development plans.

Robert’s experience in delivering products to market includes launching over 30 products to market throughout his career, and delivering multimillion programs of up to $500 million in annual revenue. He combines technical and management background with solid digital, multidisciplinary, and agile delivery experience, and worked with global and world class teams in over 10 countries across US, Europe, Israel, Asia, and Australia.

Ultrasound Overview

An ultrasound is performed by a trained ultrasound technician (or sonographer) by applying an ultrasound probe (or transducer) to the chest.

The transducer emits high-frequency sound, inaudible to human ears, and then records the echoes as the sound waves bounce back to determine the size, shape, and consistency of soft tissues and organs.

This information is relayed in real time to produce images on a computer screen.

Sonographers have highly specialised training in order to perform the test, which creates ultrasound images that a radiologist or cardiologist then interprets.

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