1. Biomedical Engineering Design: Teaching Innovation
Matthew R. Glucksberg
October, 2013

2. Biomedical engineering is a discipline that advances knowledge in engineering, biology and medicine, and improves human health through cross-disciplinary activities that integrate the engineering sciences with the biomedical sciences and clinical practice. It includes: 1) The acquisition of new knowledge and understanding of living systems through the innovative and substantive application of experimental and analytical techniques based on the engineering sciences, and 2) The development of new devices, algorithms, processes and systems that advance biology and medicine and improve medical practice and health care delivery.

5. Engineering Design
User needs
Stakeholders and Design Input
Design Process
- Requirements
- Specifications
- Proof of Concept
- Prototyping
- Manufacturability (cost)
Design Output and Testing (Verification)
Validation

6. BME, FDA and Design

7. BME Design for Underserved Populations

8. Underserved Population?
The poor
The young
“Small markets”
Main problem everywhere is cost, especially the cost of consumables

9. Capstone BME Design Projects
Infant incubator
Formula feeder
Oral rehydration
Arsenic removal
Hand hygiene
Rx Compliance
UVGI for TB
Digital X-ray
HIV Inactivation
Hospital bed
Homeless diabetics
Neg. press. socket
Prosthetic alignment
IMCI Tablet
HIV monitor
STI screen
Pediatric monitor
Fetal alcohol screen
Diabetes monitor
Premie apnea
Premie CPAP

10. Deaths attributed to 19 leading factors, by country income level, 2008
WHO 2010

11. Percentage of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) attributed to 19 leading risk factors, by country income level, 2008
WHO 2010

12. Things are complicated Things change Policies make a difference
The disease burden is different
in the different places

13. Solutions? (from my perspective in Chicago)
Give money
Build things
Give stuff
Educate
Change the system – sell stuff
Get out of the way
Perhaps all of the above, but understanding is the key to design in any environment.

14. Global Health Technologies & Community Health Technologies
Undergraduates and MS students in an immersive training environment.
Solving health problems through design

15. Premature Infant Care

16. Infant Incubator

17. Kangaroo Mother Care Respiratory Monitor Phototherapy Blanket CPAP
for KMC

18. Low-cost piezoelectric respiratory monitor
Kangaroo
Mother
Care
Products
-Apnea
Mowbray Materity Hospital,
Cape Town, South Afica
Low-cost piezoelectric
respiratory monitor
Infantrust, Stellenbosch, S. Africa

19. Blanket for Phototherapy Infantrust, Stellenbosch, S. Africa
Kangaroo
Mother
Care
Products
Biliblanket
Low-cost LED-based
Blanket for Phototherapy
Infantrust, Stellenbosch, S. Africa 19

20. Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Breast Feeding

21. Overheating is the problem
Breast Milk Pasteurization
Problem posed: Need a better method
Overheating is the problem
Need a Thermometer!

22. Breast Milk Pasteurization
(Extreme Affordability)
Wax

23. X-ray services

25. Guatamala

27. Integrated Management
of Childhood Illness

28. Integrated Management
of Childhood Illness
eChart:
IMCI
in a
tablet

29. So thru capstone design, study abroad, CIGHT we’re training BME for global health challenges
and giving them a reason to be proud they’re BMEs.