{"518751":{"#nid":"518751","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Prospective BioID Students Tour State-of-the-Art Clinical and Medical Device Prototyping Facilities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Master of Biomedical Innovation and Development (MBID) program hosted 28 prospective students from across the country for two days of fast-paced activities with ideal springtime weather. Graduates of this intensive one-year professional master\u2019s program are exceptionally well-prepared to pursue and advance in the dynamic field of biomedical engineering devices and technology. In addition to the collaborative academic instruction in biomedical technology from two top-ranked institutions in engineering, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and medicine, Emory University\u2019s School of Medicine, they also receive practical, hands-on clinical experience in Atlanta\u2019s thriving biomedical industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis was the annual recruitment event for the fourth BioID cohort of students offered admission into this highly competitive program. The program has gained recognition from the large to small size medical device industries as reflected by the excellent placement across various roles of past batch graduates in companies such as Medtronic, St Jude, Cook Medical, Halyard and others,\u201d said Sathya Gourisankar, program director, and a 30-plus year veteran in the medical device industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter a mid-day check-in at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, visiting prospective students were whisked by bus to Grady Memorial Hospital. Grady is best known for its premier level 1 trauma center, its top rated burn center, and The Marcus Stroke and Neuroscience Center. Opened in 1892, Grady is an internationally recognized teaching hospital located near Georgia Tech and serves the metro Atlanta area where 5.7 million people live.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJeremy Ackerman, a faculty member of the master\u2019s program and board certified emergency physician who works at Grady, gave the group an insider\u2019s tour of Grady\u2019s emergency suites at the hospital. During the tour, medivac helicopters were landing rooftop and transporting a patient into the emergency room, but the group was not privy to the emergency treatment for this patient.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn day two, the group assembled at Georgia Tech\u2019s Technology Enterprise Park (TEP), Atlanta\u2019s home for the biotech community where the MBID program is taught. Lifescience and biotech corporations located in the building include St. Jude Medical, CardioMems, Kemira, and CryoLife.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe day started with a MBID program overview delivered by various program faculty members, that included professors from Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering, the Scheller School of Business, Emory physicians, and biomedical industry veterans \u2013 most of whom had more than 30 years of biomedical industry experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA tour was given through the biomedical and innovation design machine shop and design studio, followed by an in depth question and answer student panel comprised of current and former students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter lunch, the group toured St. Jude\u2019s T3 translational lab facilities located next to the TEP building. St. Jude Medical turns to T3 Labs to recreate real world operating conditions for preclinical trials, as do other companies in the biomedical device industry. Where appropriate, MBID students get the chance to work with T3 labs during their studies and projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir final stop was a tour of the Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI) located adjacent to the Georgia Tech campus. GCMI brings together core members of the medical device community, including universities, research centers, clinicians, established device companies, investors and startups, with the goal of accelerating the commercialization of innovative medical technology. GCMI is an independent, not-for-profit, full-service product development organization \u2014 the first and only one of its kind in the Southeast. Several former and current students of the MBID program work at GCMI, and provided a wealth of information to prospective students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cThe appeal of the Georgia Tech Master of Biomedical Innovation and Development program was its industry-focused program faculty. Nearly all of the professors have extensive in-depth, real-world medical device industry experience,\u201d said Rosalee Celis, a prospective student and bioengineering graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. \u201cI was very impressed with the program and don\u2019t believe many programs are setup the way the MBID program is. Not only was I accepted into the program for fall 2016 class, but going to Georgia Tech was my top choice.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore photos can be found \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bme1\/albums\/72157663343671203\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMedia Contacts:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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