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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
• f 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-

• p 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