{"id":10067,"date":"2011-09-15T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T14:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=10067"},"modified":"2017-08-02T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T14:31:01","slug":"making-the-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2011\/09\/making-the-rounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 1034px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Solutions_Rounds_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10083 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Solutions_Rounds_2-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"making the rounds\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Solutions_Rounds_2-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Solutions_Rounds_2-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Solutions_Rounds_2-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CBID students Lauren Smith, left, and Divya Maxwell, right, make the rounds with cardiothoracic surgeon Ashish Shah at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Students spend eight weeks with doctors at the hospital and other facilities. (Photo by Keith Weller)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">It\u2019s shortly after 2 p.m. on a summer day, and Hopkins spine surgeon Jay Khanna, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and biomedical engineering, is completing his third delicate spine surgery of the day. At his side is John-William Sidhom, a master\u2019s student in the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation &amp; Design (CBID) program, who has been observing Khanna\u2019s every move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Sidhom studied biomedical engineering as an undergraduate at University of Michigan and already has one U.S. patent on an orthopedic technology under his belt. Today he stands on a step stool watching as Khanna deftly removes a severely herniated disk from the neck of a 47-year-old woman. Then, using a drill, Khanna flattens the endplates of the vertebral bodies, above and below the disk space, to make room for placement of a bone graft.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">For a student intent on attending medical school, Sidhom is exhilarated by this opportunity to work alongside top Hopkins physicians\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">as part of his yearlong master\u2019s program in medical innovation. But at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore County, he isn\u2019t in the operating room to learn the finer points of surgery.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">He is looking at the entire surgical process\u2014at the tools, the monitors, the materials\u2014as an engineer. In operating rooms across Johns Hopkins Hospital and other facilities, his 15 CBID classmates are undertaking similar investigations. Their goal: to engineer new tools and methods that will improve the way health care is delivered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s4\">\u201cI can give most clinicians a problem, and they think about it in the same way every time. In a sense, our ability to innovate is constrained by our medical education,\u201d says Khanna, who has served for three years as CBID\u2019s clinical director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cBut our young engineers are incredibly intelligent, nimble, and solution-oriented. They think outside the box, and they just come at things in a different way,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">This eight-week stint spent inside Johns Hopkins Hospital is one key to the success of the CBID program, which already has hit a few home runs. From student projects, for example, has grown Cortical Concepts\u2019 specialized pedicle screw that allows surgeons to operate more\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">easily on patients with osteoporosis, as well as BOSS Medical\u2019s novel method to retrieve bone for grafting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Over the next nine months, Sidhom and his master\u2019s classmates will draw on what they\u2019ve learned here at the hospital as they work in design teams to create innovations for the high-tech medical device market in the U.S., as well as global health projects for developing countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">As Sidhom takes a break from observing everything from joint replacements to spine surgery, he says: \u201cOur professors have asked\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">us to remain open-minded. So I\u2019m taking a broad view, to see if we can come up with an innovative way to improve an area of medicine.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovating in Baltimore: Back home, CBID students work with Johns Hopkins clinicians to engineer new tools and methods to improve health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-currents","issue-fall-2011"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Making the Rounds - JHU Engineering Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2011\/09\/making-the-rounds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Making the Rounds - 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