Episode #96 | The Future of Surgical Digital Twin with Gilly Yildirim (CEO, Vent Creativity)

How well do we really understand the body? For decades, surgeons have relied on static scans and flat 2D models to plan procedures. Gilly Yildirim believes it’s time to expand our view to more dimensions. As founder and CEO of Vent Creativity, he is bringing together point clouds, digital twins, and physics-based AI to capture movement with a level of precision that static imaging is far from.In conversation with Jenny Chen, Gilly Yildirim describes how his team built a platform that sees the body not as a collection of bones, but as a dynamic system of forces and interactions. Their software models the physics of ligaments, cartilage, and bone to predict how a patient’s knee will behave before surgery even begins. The goal is to give surgeons a more clear and reliable picture of what they’re working with.Yildirim shares the thinking that shaped his company’s approach. The team’s goal wasn’t to design a product, but to build a service that integrates into real clinical practice. Vent’s technology includes Minerva, an adaptive AI engine trained on real anatomical data. It powers Hermes, an FDA-cleared knee planning tool, and inVENT, a cloud platform that lets surgeons explore patient-specific digital twins in full 3D.Gilly Yildirim has 20 years of experience in orthopedics, so he has unique understanding of the clinical and technical sides of surgical innovation. He discusses how biomechanics, imaging physics, and computational modeling converge within Vent’s framework to create accurate, reproducible results. The same methods used to map a knee could soon extend to hips, shoulders, cardiac systems, and even to full-body digital twins that integrate data across multiple organs and modalities. His work points toward a future where medical planning is not based on snapshots, but on simulations that mirror the patient’s unique physiology.This episode offers a deep, imaginative look at how AI, physics, and human creativity are coming together to build the next generation of surgical intelligence.Send us Fan MailSupport the showSubscribe to our premium version and support the show. Follow us: Twitter  Instagram Linkedin 3DHEALS WebsiteFacebookFacebook GroupYoutube channelAbout Pitch3D