Medicine and Engineering at Duke
Transcript of Medicine and Engineering at Duke
Medicine and
Engineering at Duke
Motivation: SOM and Pratt
Common Goals
Clinical Medicine
Basic Science
Engineering
HEALTH & DISEASE
Diagnostics & > Therapy
Entrepreneurship >
& Policy
Enabling > Research
ENHANCING EDUCATION ADVANCING
TRANSLATION
IMPROVING HEALTH
• Top 10 medical school and top-tier hospitals
• Top 10 BME program + fastest-rising engineering school
(Top 20 UG, Top 30 grad)
• $20M Duke-Coulter Translational Partnership
• Strong clinical, research & IT infrastructure
• Interdisciplinary hubs: DGHI, iiD, DTRI, I&E, DIBS
• Physical proximity & culture of collaboration
The Duke Advantage: Key Assets
MEDx Reflections
Leadership
SOM
• Hashim Al-Hashimi
(Biochemistry)
• Ben Alman (Orthopedics)
• Patrick Codd (Neurosurgery)
• Allan Kirk (Surgery)
• Mary Klotman (Medicine)
• Steve Lisberger
(Neurobiology)
Pratt
• Tosh Chilkoti (BME)
• Chris Dwyer (ECE)
• Claudia Gunsch (CEE)
• George Truskey (BME)
• Jennifer West (BME/MEMS)
• Pei Zhong (MEMS)
Associate Director – Ken Gall PhD (MEMS Chair)
1. Innovative and affordable and effective diagnostics
and devices
2. Data science, signal processing and predictive
modeling
3. Robotics-enabled basic science and clinical
procedures
4. Tissue engineering and regeneration
5. Brain science and neuro-engineering
Initial Strategic Themes
Weekly MEDx Café
• Weds AMs at Twinnie’s and Nosh
• Drop-in opportunities for students and faculty
MEDx Lunch
• Student-Student or Student-Faculty lunches to discuss
collaborative research opportunities
Social Engineering
First Inter-school Colloquia
• “Duke Surgical Robotics” – Patrick Codd (Neurosurgery) and Kris Hauser (ECE)
• “Challenges Seeking Solutions in Primary Care, Cancer and Engineering” – Sharon Hull (Community and Family Medicine) and Nimmi Ramanujam (BME)
• “Bringing Neuro-engineering to the Clinic” – Nandan Lad (Neurology) and Craig Henriquez (BME)
• “Fluid Dynamics in Virtual 3D Models of Cardiac Defects in Children” – Piers Barker (Pediatrics) and Amanda Randles (BME)
• “Microbiome Synthesis” – John Rawls (MGM), Lawrence David (MGM) and Claudia Gunsch (CEE)
• “Mobile and Wireless Technologies” – Ryan Shaw (School of Nursing) and Tuan Vo-Dinh (BME)
New Interschool Colloquia
Research Pilot Program RFAs ($50,000 awards)
1. VPR - Collaborative Quantitative Approaches to Problems in the Basic and
Clinical Sciences (8 applications funded)
• targeted to enhance interactions between faculty in the Campus departments and
groups within the School of Medicine (SoM), with applications at the intersection of
quantitative science and medicine
2. MEDx Interschool Collaborative Pilot Program (30 Applications Received)
• targeted to enhance collaborations between the School of Medicine and Pratt faculty
in the area of diagnostics and devices.
• Syndicate with MEDx Leading: Surgery, Medicine, Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, DIHI,
CTSA, MEMS
Seed Funding
• Rapid, non-invasive, point-of-care cancer diagnostic tool
Brant Inman (Surgery) and Jeff Glass (ECE)
• Devices for improved tendon to bone healing
Shalini Ramasunder, MD (Ortho) and Jennifer West (BME/MEMS)
• A novel catheter for treatment of hydrocephaly
Nandan Lad (NeuroSurg) and Ken Gall (MEMS)
• A micro-physiologic system to test the tumorigenic behaviors and drug responses of
skeletal muscle tumors
Corinne Linardic (Peds) and Nenad Bursac (BME)
• High intensity forced ultrasound and immunotherapeutic intervention for destruction
of tumor cells
Kim Lyerly (Surgery) and Pei Zhong (MEMS)
• A miniaturized apheresis device for research and pediatric use
Gow Arepally (Medicine), Neal Simmons and Hadley Cocks (MEMS)
Diagnostics and Devices
4 Teams (expanding to 8 teams 2017)
• Dunson – models of intraoperative blood pressure as predictors of post-op renal function
• Hauser – intraoperative patient trajectories for optimizing therapy and reducing adverse events
• Heller – machine learning to manage surgical outcomes
• Rai – use of EHR data for scalable framework for diabetes management
Data Science: MEDx-iiD-Accenture
Discovery
Research
Discovery
Research
Translational
Research
Discovery
Research
Translational
Research Commercialization
• Integration at the student level
– Undergrad, post doc programs
• Integration of faculty
– Interschool colloquia
– Seed funding
• Shadowing
– “Engineers in scrubs”
– “InnovateMD”
• Joint hires RFP
Strategic Priorities
• Coulter enhancements
• Engaging the basic science community
• Collision space
– Fitzpatrick CIEMAS, Downtown
– Telecom – Innovation Co-Lab
– DUSON – Simulation Lab
• Gateway to campus talent
• Thematic center grants
Strategic Priorities
• Dean Andrews, Deans Katsouleas, Truskey and
Bellamkonda
• Provost Kornbluth
• Donors
– Dr. Mike Ramsey
– Pamela Rosenau
– The Julius H. Caplan Charity Foundation
Thank You