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BlueHealer: A Tibial Implant for Limb Salvage in Vascular Disease
- Program: Biomedical Engineering
- Course: EN.580.612 Medical Device Design and Innovation
- Year: 2025
Project Description:
BlueHealer is developing a breakthrough implant to prevent major amputations in patients with advanced Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD), a chronic condition affecting over 12M Americans. Each year, 150,000 patients lose a limb due to the failure of current revascularization procedures, creating a cycle of repeated interventions, artery damage, and inevitable amputation. BlueHealer offers a new solution: an orthopedic implant that harnesses the body’s natural healing response to grow new blood vessels, restore blood flow, heal chronic wounds, and ultimately save limbs. Our device provides a last-resort limb salvage option for late-stage PAD patients, potentially saving hospital systems up to $38.5 billion while preserving patient mobility and independence.
Project Photo:
BlueHealer team pictured together from left to right: Lindsay Lamberti, Jay Tailor, Mitchell Lipke, Santiago Sanchez Renteria, Selena Shirkin.
Student Team Members
- Santiago Sanchez Renteria
- Lindsay Lamberti
- Selena Shirkin
- Jay Tailor
- Mitchell Lipke
- Dr. Clifford Weiss; Medical Director, The Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering, Innovation and Design (CBID)
- Dr. Mark Lessne; Charlotte Radiology
- Dr. Joshua Beckman; Chief of Vascular Medicine; UTSouthwestern Medical Center
- Dr. Phillip McClure; Director of International Center for Limb Lengthening, Sinai Hospital
- Mark Gelfand; CTO and Co-Founder of Deerfield Catalyst
- Kym McNicholas; CEO of the Global PAD Association
- Sean White; Director of Research for Peripheral Vascular Health at Medtronic