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Hopkins Start-up “Quickfires” to Find Solutions for Metabolic Diseases
Posted by | Education, Research, Vice Chair Contributors
Look around Hopkins and you see a culture that has been shaped by the giants in medicine and science. Portraits decorate our walls, and clinical teams, buildings and events are named after famous physicians and scientists. Perhaps less visible is the impact of the teams and processes that enable discoveries to become implementable improvements- drugs,(...)
Put Your App on the Map
Posted by | Education, Research
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CORRIE: JHU and Apple Collaborate to Bring Cardiac Care to your Fingertips
Posted by | Education, Research, Vice Chair Contributors
Imagine: one day you’re well, going about activities as always, and then something happens to change your life forever. We see it everyday. In this case, it’s crushing chest pain, shortness of breath: a heart attack. Now ask yourself: How will this change the way you live tomorrow? Are you prepared to make those changes?(...)
Augmenting Reality with Pokemon and EPIC: What’s Next?
Posted by | Education, Research, Vice Chair Contributors
Is there an ICD-10 code for technological phobias? I may have it. My diagnosis dates back to 1993, when I first encountered email. As a Duke intern, I was consumed by admissions and blood draws and distracted by my fellow intern who sat banging on a keyboard. He introduced me to “this new amazing technology,”(...)
Take Your Ideas to Bootcamp
Posted by | Education, Research, Vice Chair Contributors
The word “bootcamp” conjures up images of drill sergeants training military recruits or similarly inspired fitness training programs. The idea is to improve fitness, strength and stamina by pushing someone to their physical and mental limits. For some of us, it sounds a bit like internship- a time in life that we remember fondly but(...)
What’s the Big Idea?
Posted by | Education, Research, Vice Chair Contributors
My morning started like most school days. Kid commotion: cries over the hairbrush, breakfast dish banging and a 15-minute music play-off featuring the 5th grade oboe vs. 2nd grade piano. I mused that the earplug inventor had at least two kids, maybe more. For a curtain call, my 11-year old battled her backpack. I observed(...)
Essential W’s of Intellectual Property at JHU: Why, What, When and Where?
Posted by | Education, Research, Vice Chair Contributors
While we didn’t go into academic medicine to commercialize products, many of us have ideas and discoveries that can improve health. Intellectual Property (IP) has a broad definition- any new and useful process, machine, composition of matter, life form, article of manufacture, software, copyrighted work or tangible property. It’s imperative that we know our responsibilities(...)
IDAMS: A New Program for DOM Faculty from InCMed and Carey School
Posted by | Education, Research, Vice Chair Contributors
Initial Discovery Assessment and Market Scan (IDAMS) is a program co-sponsored by the Carey Business School and the Department of Medicine’s InCMed program to assist the department’s investigators in assessing their scientific ideas for potential commercialization. Investigators who would like to know if their discoveries might be commercializable are paired with a team of MBA(...)