{"id":718,"date":"2015-11-10T14:45:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T05:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/?p=718"},"modified":"2015-11-10T14:45:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T05:15:44","slug":"mdri-hosts-dignitaries-at-flinders-at-tonsley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/2015\/11\/10\/mdri-hosts-dignitaries-at-flinders-at-tonsley\/","title":{"rendered":"MDRI hosts dignitaries at Flinders at Tonsley"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_719\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-719\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/files\/2015\/11\/7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/files\/2015\/11\/7-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Reynolds and Mark Taylor with Swedish Ambassador to Australia Par Ahlberger\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/11\/7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/11\/7-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/11\/7-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MDRI Director Prof Karen Reynolds and Deputy Director Prof Mark Taylor  welcome Swedish Ambassador to Australia P\u00e4r Ahlberger to Flinders at Tonsley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Swedish Ambassador to Australia, P\u00e4r Ahlberger, has visited Flinders University\u2019s new Tonsley facility during his first official trip to Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ahlberger, who has a strong interest in health and medical device technologies, met key members of Flinders\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/mdri\">Medical Device Research Institute<\/a> (MDRI) including its Director, Professor Karen Reynolds, and Deputy Director, Professor Mark Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador was welcomed to Tonsley by the SA Department of State Development\u2019s Andrew Dickson and Flinders University International Centre Director Sebastian Raneskold \u2013 himself a Swede.<\/p>\n<p>The influential Swedish group, which included Swedish Defence Attache Captain Karl Henriksson, the Swedish Honorary Consul in Adelaide Joshua Teague and four other Honorary Consuls from Brisbane, PNG, Hobart and Fiji, spent over an hour at Flinders\u2019 medical devices, engineering and innovation hub.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the visit included a tour of Tonsley\u2019s Biomechanics Testing Lab and demonstration of the Hexapod Robot, developed to enhance understanding of 3D performance of normal and diseased joints by simulating complex joint motions.<\/p>\n<p>The visit also included tours of the MDRI development lab led by Professor Karen Reynolds, the Motion Analysis Lab led by David Hobbs, and an overview of Computational Modelling capabilities by Professor Mark Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>The visit was capped off with a tour of Flinders\u2019 New Venture Institute led by NVI Deputy Director, Operations, Ben Flink.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ahlberger is just the latest in a string of high profile visitors to Tonsley in the past few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish Ambassador to Australia, P\u00e4r Ahlberger, has visited Flinders University\u2019s new Tonsley facility during his first official trip to Adelaide. 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