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Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology http://www.cimit.org
Position: CIMIT Web and Events Coordinator
Email: cimitinfo@partners.org
CIMIT
165 Cambridge Street. Suite 702
Boston, MA 02114Map thisA non-profit consortium of Boston teaching hospitals and engineering schools, CIMIT fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among world-class experts in medicine, science and engineering, in concert with industry and government, to rapidly improve patient care. %newline% %newline%CIMIT is a proven and successful...
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CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare Call for ApplicationsThe 2009 RFA has now closed. Next call for applications is December 2010 - sign up for an email notification on cimit.org when the submission site is open.
The CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare is a national competition open to graduate and undergraduate engineering students from accredited engineering programs. The competition seeks ideas for technologic innovations with great potential to support and catalyze improved delivery of healthcare at the frontlines of medicine. The top three student entrants (individuals or teams) will receive $150,000, $100,000 and $50,000, respectively, to help advance their winning clinically-relevant, primary care solutions. The three prize winners will be selected from ten finalists, who will be chosen to advance to the final round from all submissions received. CIMIT’s goal in offering these major awards is to encourage engineering students to develop technological innovations that have great potential to enhance delivery of primary healthcare. Student collaboration and team submissions are strongly encouraged.
Engineering students can learn more at:
http://www.cimit.org/grants-cimitprize.html
CIMIT Statement on the Launching of the Home Base ProgramA non-profit partnership between the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital
CIMIT welcomes the opportunity to participate in the Home Base Program, a novel public/private partnership aimed at helping veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq who are affected by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Drawing on the power of ideas and the passion of our community to improve patient care, CIMIT Programs in TBI and PTSD will focus on uncovering new and improved treatment approaches for active military personnel and our nation’s veterans.
CIMIT is honored to facilitate the research efforts of the Home Base Program by collaborating with the Boston Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital, two world-class organizations. CIMIT is especially pleased to continue our work in coordination with the Department of Veterans Administration and Department of Defense on behalf of our service men and women.
\"It takes tremendous courage for a veteran to step forward and ask for help. We must commit ourselves to helping veterans and their families as they return from war and in finding better ways to diagnose and treat the invisible injuries of TBI and PTSD. As a community, CIMIT will gather and synthesize a wealth of expertise and knowledge in pursuit of improved patient care.\"
John Parrish, MD
CIMIT Executive Director
National Healthcare Leaders Headline CIMIT Conference Boston – CIMIT will convene its annual Innovation Congress Oct. 27-28, 2009, in Boston, with top keynote speakers, in-depth discussions about cutting-edge medical issues and close to 60 demonstrations of innovative medical devices and clinical systems in the CIMIT Exploratorium.
The theme of the conference is 'Accelerating Healthcare Solutions through Technology.' Five nationally recognized leaders will keynote the two day event: Susan Axelrod, President of CURE (Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy); Clayton M. Christensen, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; Sean M. Hogan, Vice President, Global Healthcare Delivery Systems, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences; Major General James K. Gilman, MD, Commander US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command; and Michael J. Harsh, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, GE Healthcare.
2010 CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare Finalists SelectedCIMIT has announced 10 finalists in the 2010 CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare. Each team will be awarded $10,000 to develop a final proposal. This national competition attracted a wide variety of ideas for technology-enabling approaches to improve primary care.
The 10 teams must submit final proposals by May 31, 2010. Three top winners will be chosen from the ten, and the announcement will be made by June 30th. The top three will receive $150,000, $100,000 and $50,000, respectively.
The ten finalists and projects selected for the final round of the 2010 CIMIT Primary Healthcare Prize are:
* Peter Backeris, Stevens Institute of Technology; Title: Digital Triage Assistant
* Jonathan Baran, University of Wisconsin Madison; Title: EMRViz: A patient-centered, problem-oriented EMR visualization package
* Ryan Chang, Johns Hopkins University; Title: Invention of non-invasive method and apparatus to deliver diagnostic devices into the gastrointestinal tract
* Nicholas Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Title: Improving Everyday Health Through Continuous Personal Instrumentation
* Mark Hartman, Cornell University; Title: Rapid multiplexed detection of pathogens with DNA nanobarcodes
* Syed Imaad, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Title: Health Diagnostic Compact Disc (HDCD)
* George Lewis, Cornell University; Title: Wearable Low-intensity Ultrasound Therapy for Osteoarthritis: Technology Development and Clinical Evaluation
* Debkishore Mitra, University of California Berkeley; Title: Sepsis Diagnostics using iMDs
* Muzaffer Yalgin Ozsecen, Northeastern University; Title: Synchronized Blood Pressure Measurement Device
* Ming-Zher Poh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Title: Webcam-based Technology for Non-contact, Multi-Parameter Physiological Measurements
New Drug Delivery for Preventing Local Lung Tumor RecurrenceCIMIT investigators use a low-dose chemotherapeutic polymer film to deliver drugs directly to lung tissue following surgical resection of a tumor.
Boston, MA - A team of engineers, chemists, and clinicians lead by Mark W. Grinstaff, PhD, of Boston University and Yolonda Colson, MD, PhD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a unique new drug delivery device for the prevention of lung tumor recurrence after surgical resection. This research entitled 'Prevention of Local Tumor Recurrence Following Surgery Using Low Dose Chemotherapeutic Polymer Films' by Rong Liu, et al. was published online in the Annals of Surgical Oncology in December. The Colson-Grinstaff collaboration was enabled and funded by CIMIT, a nonprofit consortium of hospitals and engineering universities supporting translational research.
In this study, researchers developed polymer films loaded with low dose chemotherapy that allowed the controlled release of the drug over an extended period of time to kill residual cancer cells left in the lung at the margin of the health lung tissue and the surgically resected tumor. These unique films are both flexible and easily stapled to tissue to allow local delivery, limiting the negative effects of chemotherapy on the rest of the body.
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CIMIT Alliance with Singapore's A*STAR Boston - CIMIT Alliance with Singapore's A*STAR to expand consortium engineering and technology implementation resources.
CIMIT and A*STAR have announced the formation of a strategic alliance between the two organizations, a relationship that will open new doors of opportunity for collaboration between CIMIT consortium researchers and clinician, engineering and technology colleagues in Singapore.
'Patients are the real beneficiaries of this alliance,' CIMIT executive director, John A. Parrish said in making the announcement in Boston. 'Through this border-crossing multidisciplinary research and organizational collaboration, we have a unique opportunity to create and accelerate the adoption of novel technologies into clinical care.'
In forming this alliance with CIMIT, A*STAR seeks to enhance its long-term goal of building a vibrant MedTech innovation ecosystem in Singapore. For the CIMIT community, the collaboration adds important engineering and technology implementation capacity and expertise to the growing portfolio of resources available for Boston-based, clinically-focused innovators.
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