ACADEMY PRESENTATION

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History of the Academy creation

Nicolas Grimaldi, French Osteopath D.O., founded ONE OSTEO in 2011, with the intent to bring osteopathic care to Malaysia at a larger scale. It was indeed the first and only osteopathic clinic in the country. The clinic’s reputation grew quickly over the years to become the sole leader in the country. It allowed him to hire more osteopaths from France, and open more clinics: 2014 saw the opening of Puchong branch and a partnership with Sprouts clinic, in Jaya One. The clinics soon reached 7 osteopaths to be able to meet the increasing demand.

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    Growing the team was a necessary second step on the path to a bigger project. Having more French practitioners coming to Malaysia could not be a long-term solution to give access to osteopathic care to a larger part of the population all over the country.

    That is why we have been working since 2014 to develop Osteopathy education for Malaysians and countries around. One Osteo team members were curated for their skills and profiles to become the future teachers of our Academy.

    Today, ONE OSTEO is recognised for its great work and benefit for the community all around the country and beyond Malaysian borders: patients are travelling from everywhere in Malaysia to meet our team as well as from neighbouring countries and other parts of Asia, Middle East, Oceania, and as far as Soudan.

In 2018, and after four years working on this project to secure the conditions of the highest international standards for the students, we are proud and honoured to be given the chance to co-create this academy in partnership with the prestigious French school CEESO Lyon SAS.

CEESO Lyon SAS has always strived for the quality of education and patient safety. Major player in France, CEESO Lyon SAS is also member and vice-president of OsEAN, the Osteopathic European Academic Network, whose purpose is to facilitate exchange of students, teachers and knowledge in teaching methods between the best European schools, in the pursuit of excellence in Osteopathic education.

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    The academy will open its doors in October 2018 for the first class of Malaysian and international students. Not only will it launch the process of spreading osteopathic care across more Malaysian cities when our first students will graduate, but also a portion of the fees will be allocated to the creation of a charity program. Partnerships with charities and non-profit associations will give access to Osteopathy for people most in need. Ultimately, we will be able to create a foundation to intervene all over the country. It requires an extreme rigor in the standards of education we must comply with, in order to protect the future of Osteopathy development in Malaysia.

Partnership between CEESO Lyon and OneOsteoAcademy
Signature of partnership between CEESO Lyon and ONE OSTEO Academy
Partnership between CEESO Lyon and OneOsteoAcademy

In 2018, and after four years working on this project to secure the conditions of the highest international standards for the students, we are proud and honoured to be given the chance to co-create this academy in partnership with the prestigious French school CEESO Lyon SAS.

CEESO Lyon SAS has always strived for the quality of education and patient safety. Major player in France, CEESO Lyon SAS is also member and vice-president of OsEAN, the Osteopathic European Academic Network, whose purpose is to facilitate exchange of students, teachers and knowledge in teaching methods between the best European schools, in the pursuit of excellence in Osteopathic education.

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    The academy will open its doors in October 2018 for the first class of Malaysian and international students. Not only will it launch the process of spreading osteopathic care across more Malaysian cities when our first students will graduate, but also a portion of the fees will be allocated to the creation of a charity program. Partnerships with charities and non-profit associations will give access to Osteopathy for people most in need. Ultimately, we will be able to create a foundation to intervene all over the country. It requires an extreme rigor in the standards of education we must comply with, in order to protect the future of Osteopathy development in Malaysia.

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Our Vision, Values and Ethics

One and only central concern has been driving ONE OSTEO Academy approach and project since day one: to always provide the very best quality of care to the PATIENT. Every thought, every decision, every action to give birth to this academy were made to ensure that the patients of our future graduates will be treated with ethics and excellence, and at least as well as we would do it ourselves.  The values we truly believe in at ONE OSTEO Academy, and that probably participated in our success, are osteopathic ethics, strong human values, responsibility, compassion and love.

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    But our mission goes beyond the quality of education and the values we convey. Based on the experience of other countries, this academy has the social responsibility to provide and develop a healthy professional environment for the coming generations of osteopaths in Malaysia. Thus we studied the potential need of osteopaths in the country over the next thirty years, considering the evolution of population, purchasing power, other similar fees for studies around the region, and came to the decision to impose a strict number of students every year. This will preserve the market for every practitioner to have enough work all along their career without having to struggle like it happened in many countries when certain education fields were not controlled enough. First generations of practitioners will naturally be renewed by the new ones, without overcrowding the market. And here we are, back to our core value: this will guaranty the constant and highest quality of treatment for the PATIENTS, as the quality of education won’t be diluted by overcrowded classes of students, and practitioners will be able to maintain and continuously improve their skills by seeing many patients throughout their entire career.

    The Patient First. This, and this only, can lead Malaysia to become a leader in osteopathic education and a model for the world and existing schools.

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The Founders

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Nicolas Grimaldi

Nicolas was born in Africa and raised in the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. His father, raised by Sicilian parents who migrated to Tunisia and later Algeria, lived 35 years in Djibouti where Nicolas was born. His mother has been a strong pillar in his life, she brought him his name and part of his Italian roots. This is the background of a life of adventure, that stimulated Nicolas’ love for nature throughout his childhood. Hunting in the deserts between Djibouti and Somalia, the hottest place in the world with some parts reaching 70 degrees Celsius, where you could cook on the rocks and glass bottles would melt, diving the dangerous waters of the Red Sea and its incredible diversity, encounters with armed tribes and groups of impressive baboons surrounding the camps at night… An unconventional childhood that arose his passion for nature, freedom, diversity, science, wildlife. Passions and values that made sense with his choice to do osteopathic studies when he grew older.

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    Nicolas graduated from the French osteopathic school Atman in 2007 after a 6 years full-time program of studies. Over the 6th year, he had the chance to meet with 14 experts and true figures of the international osteopathic scene, including Pierre Tricot, Bruno Ducoux, Philippe Druelle, and the American D.O. Viola Frymann, who was a direct student of W.G. Sutherland, himself a student of the American School of Osteopathy, founded by A.T.Still. Meeting her and being treated by her 50-years-experienced-hands, was a key event in Nicolas’s vision of Osteopathy and ethics. Her work with kids and newborns and her legacy on cranial osteopathy highly influenced Nicolas’s orientation towards paediatric and perinatal specialisation. Overall, he considers that this 6th year was so enriching by the extreme quality and experience level of these contributors, that it’s almost as if it brought him the equivalent of several years of experience. It was the perfect aggregation of modern osteopathy, osteopathy by the founders, and osteopathic practice in the world.

    Among other experiences, Nicolas had the chance to work on the No Finish Line event in Monaco, as well as with the ballerinas and dancers of the prestigious Ballets de Montecarlo.

    When he arrived in 2011 in Malaysia, he was impressed by the warm welcome he received, the diversity of treatments he could provide to his patients, and the trust and hope they placed in him. This drove him to consistently improve the quality of service for the patients and to build new projects to give access to osteopathic care to more people in the country, leading to this academy creation, and ultimately to a foundation.

    Today Nicolas is recognised by his peers around the world and the medical community in Malaysia. He still travels for his passion around the World and plans now to explore the highlands and islands of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon.

Laurent Kestelyn

Laurent Kestelyn

Laurent KESTELYN was born in France, more specifically in Lille, he grew up in Savoie and did most of his studies in the Alps. He obtained an engineering degree in robotics and artificial intelligence; this was the opportunity for him to do an internship in Melbourne, where he worked at the design of one of the first videophone. Back in France, he got a Master degree in Marketing, but will return to Melbourne for two years to develop programs for a large pharmaceutical company. Since then, combining travel and business will then become and stay his creed.

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    Back again in France, he worked as a telecom networks designer in different international telecom services providers. Thus, well before the advent of the Internet, he did connect major sites of large companies around the world. He is credited with the international network of Quantas, British Airways, Crédit Lyonnais, Ing Bank, UTC (Otis, Prat & Witney or Carrier) or the World Bank. He has been a consultant for BBN planet (the inventor of the @ in our mails), hotels intercontinental, Airbus (for the launch of the A380) or Raytheon (The inventor of Wifi). He trained many engineers around the world on technologies that would revolutionize the way we communicate today.

    His feat of arms: To have realized the network architecture of a major business bank in New York on a new model that prioritized voice over data in case of loss of flow. On September 11, 2011, while half of Manhattan is cut off, the network he designed will be one of the few to function, allowing phone calls from the south of the peninsula to the north eventually via Tokyo or Paris. This network will be partially used to rebuild the infrastructure of the city.

    Laurent KESTELYN has a visionary spirit and when his old friend Edouard Olivier RENARD, then head of CEESO©, calls for help to save his school from financial risk, he puts at the service of the institution, his know-how in marketing and strategy. The school doubles its recruitment in two years and its balance sheet becomes positive. In the wake, he will create a sister school in Lyon that he will manage and develop, then with other partners, he will start CEESO© venisia srl. Looking further east, he planned to open a school in Thailand. But, finally it is with Nicolas Grimaldi that he will create the first school of Kuala Lumpur. One adventure of many…

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A word from Nicolas Grimaldi

“It is with some emotion that I write these lines.  It is an historical day for Malaysia and Asia, for millions of mothers, newborns, kids, sport enthusiastic, workers across the country and beyond, for Malaysians willing to start an extraordinary new career and dedicate their time helping others the best way, and for our fantastic and dedicated team that has been consistently working towards a greater plan for 8 years now.

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    A dream comes true: The first International Academy in Osteopathy in Malaysia, in Asia-Middle East.

    On a very personal note, I have received every smile as a gift, I have been granted trust for the work I humbly provided with the best tools I have: my hands. I feel deeply grateful for this extraordinary journey as an osteopath and feel lucky to be able to give back to this beautiful country that opened its friendly arms to me, with a project that I believe to be of great value for Malaysian people.

    Our mission to help and provide health care takes another dimension with this academy. Its substance: our values, our ethics, our dedication, our quality standards, our love for people, all your trust, all your smiles, and more to come.

    Today we want to raise awareness, to build on trust, confidence, on a larger scale: Malaysia, Asia. We aim to make Malaysians and Malaysia proud of its local osteopaths, knowing they have received the highest international training, knowing Malaysia shines as THE international reference for The Art of Osteopathic Medicine in the whole region.

    We want each of our students, future osteopaths to be respected, not because they have a name, rather because they prove everyday to be what they are called: only because they treat patients the best way in respect of the highest human values and ethics.

    We have responsibilities: the responsibility to honour the memory of our teachers and masters, the responsibility to respect our patients; whether ours directly or the ones treated by people we train, the responsibility to protect osteopathic art, philosophy and essence, the responsibility to protect its development and standards, the responsibility to perpetuate the legacy for the millions of children that will have their life changed through The Art of Osteopathic Medicine.

    Everything we have done, thought about, built until today and for tomorrow, is to ensure each patient will be treated the way we would treat them ourselves.

    Greatness doesn’t come without perseverance, respect doesn’t come without respecting first, quality doesn’t come without values, dedication and hard word, trust doesn’t come without earning it and proving it consistently.

    I wish to thank you all for supporting us along this incredible journey, we will keep going with the same enthusiasm and passion. We wish to ensure, one day, access to the best Osteopathic care in the World for ALL Malaysians.”

Localisation

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One Osteo Academy will open its doors in Jaya One commercial centre. Ideally located in the heart of Petaling Jaya, it is easy to access: 15 minutes away from the major highways like LDP, Sprint, Kerinchi and Federal, accessible by LRT and bus, and just 30 minutes drive from KL City Center or Subang Jaya.

A professional One Osteo clinic will also be located in Jaya One, to allow the students to observe and learn in a real professional environment from the early beginning of their studies to the last of their supervised consultations.