CIMIT Consortium Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital

Founding Consortium Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, is the oldest and largest hospital in New England, and also conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the country. It was one of the two founders of Partners HealthCare.

MGH is one of the four founding members of CIMIT. Since 1998, MGH researchers have worked on hundreds of CIMIT projects in all of CIMIT’s program areas, especially the creation of training devices and techniques in the Simulation program and the development of the Operating Room of the Future at MGH. Currently, the CIMIT Strategic Project in Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery is being led by David Rattner, Chief of Surgery at MGH.

Recent CIMIT-Funded Projects Awarded to Massachusetts General Investigators

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR	PROJECT TITLE	PROGRAM AREA
David Rattner	Strategic Project on Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery	Minimally Invasive Surgery
Riccardo Barbieri	A Tool to Predict Apnea in Premature Infants	Neurotechnology
Timothy Bhattacharyya	FractureFree Stem Inserter for Total Hip Arthroplasty: Improving Patient Safety by Enhancing Surgeon Feedback	Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
Robert Brown	Nanoparticles for MRI-Based Imaging of Axonal Transport in ALS	Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
Steven Dawson	CIMIT Simulation Projects	Simulation
Johannes de Boer	Spectral-domain Optical Coherence Reflectometry for Highly Sensitive and Selective Detection of Biological and Chemical Species	Cardiovascular Disease
Johannes de Boer	Optical Detection of Neural Activity for Neurosurgical Repair	Cardiovascular Disease
Ronald Dixon	Primary Care Kiosks: Making Solutions Affordable and Scalable	Clinical Systems Innovation
Walter Dzik	RFID for Prevention of Bedside Errors	Clinical Systems Innovation
Julian Goldman	Medical Device Mobile Plug-and-Play Platform (MD MP3) for Medication Safety	Clinical Systems Innovation
Rajiv Gupta	Dynamic Imaging and Neuro Interventions using a High-Resolution Flat-Panel Volume CT: Feasibility Demonstration	Image Guided Therapy
Dan Kohane	Controlled Release Technology to Prevent Tracheal Stenosis	Minimally Invasive Surgery
David Judge	Designing the Ambulatory Practice of the Future Systems Integration Hub	Clinical Systems Innovation
Robert A. Levine	Operating on the heart from within - a minimally invasive approach to treat mitral valve disease	Cardiovascular Disease
Peter Masiakos	Development of Biodegradable Elastomeric Scaffolds for Minimally Invasive Closure of Pathological Fistulas and Patent Foramina	Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
Peter Masiakos	Development of an Endoscopic Fiberoptic Device and Biodegradable Scaffolds for Minimally Invasive Closure of Tracheosophageal Fistulas	Minimally Invasive Surgery
Paul Neumann	Integrating Intelligent Tutoring into Simulation Eye trauma simulator	Simulation Simulation
Mark Ottensmeyer	Multi-Axial Multi-Instrument Tracking System for Endovascular Interventional Radiology Stimulator	Simulation
Homer Pien	Advanced CT Functional Imaging: Development and Validation	New Initiatives
Mark Poznansky	A cutaneous laser system for augmenting the immunogenicity of HIV vaccines	New Initiatives
Robert Redmond	A photo-activated nanofiber graft material for enhanced tendon repair	Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
Jonathan Spector	Resuscitation technology for saving newborn lives	Global Health Initiative
Mehmet Toner	A label-free viral detection microchip for point-of-care applications	Biodetection & Sepsis Control
Benjamin Vakoc	An image-guided laser therapy catheter for Barrett’s esophagus	Optical Diagnostics
Kirby Vosburgh	Novel Image Registered Procedures	Optical Diagnostics
Anna Yaroslavsky	Wide-Field High-Resolution Imaging for the Detection of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancers	Optical Diagnostics
Dvir Yelin	Comprehensive Volumetric Confocal Microscopy via Spectral Encoding	Optical Diagnostics
Seok Hyun Yun	Brillouin Microscopy for Tissue Biomechanics Dynamic cross sectional and functional imaging of vocal folds (4D laryngoscopy)	Optical Diagnostics Optical Diagnostics
Steven Zeitels	Photoangiolysis in the Treatment of Oral Mucosal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in the Hamster Cheek Pouch Model	Optical Diagnostics
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