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Brani Vidakovic Elected as Fellow of American Statistical Association
ATLANTA (May 12, 2008) —
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Gregory Abowd named HSI Interim Director
ATLANTA (April 28, 2008) — College of Engineering Dean Don Giddens announced that College of Computing Professor Gregory Abowd will be the interim director of the Health Systems Institute (HSI).
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HSI’s Najma Shaikh Recipient of Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Undergraduate Award in Health Systems
ATLANTA (April 17, 2008) —
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HSI’s Brad Jones Recipient of FACES Postdoctoral Fellowship
ATLANTA (April 17, 2008) — The goal of the award is to assist universities in developing programs to increase the number of scientists and engineers from underrepresented ethnic groups pursuing advanced degrees in these fields and entering the professoriate.
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Robot Fetches Objects With Just a Point and a Click
ATLANTA (March 19, 2008) — Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have created a robot, designed to help users with limited mobility with everyday tasks, that moves autonomously to an item selected with a green laser pointer, picks up the item and then delivers it to the user, another person or a selected location such as a table. The new robotic communication method may help robots find their way into the home sooner.
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Researchers Show Off Laser-Guided Robot
ATLANTA (March 18, 2008) — Dr. Kemp discusses one of his projects within the Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech - an interdisciplinary lab with members from Biomedical Engineering, Interactive Computing, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech
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HSI’s Mahima Ashok Recipient of Georgia Tech Women’s Forum Scholarship
ATLANTA (March 17, 2008) — The GTWF Scholarship Fund awards annual scholarships to female students based on financial need, academic achievement and leadership.
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An Assistant Who May Need the Occasional Battery
ATLANTA (March 16, 2008) — Dr. Kemp discusses one of his projects within the Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech - an interdisciplinary lab with members from Biomedical Engineering, Interactive Computing, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech
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Robots Become Nurses’ Valuable Assistants
ATLANTA (March 10, 2008) — "There is an enormous opportunity for robots in health care, with many ways for them to increase efficiency and quality across the board. Helping nurses do their job is one of those ways."
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Three Yellow Jackets Named ACC Postgraduate Scholars
ATLANTA (February 19, 2008) — Forty Atlantic Coast Conference scholar-athletes, including three from Georgia Tech, have been named recipients of postgraduate scholarships, announced by Commissioner John D. Swofford.
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Herren Named to 2007 All-ACC Academic Team
ATLANTA (February 18, 2008) — Georgia Tech’s David Herren and Elena Linn secured spots on the 2007 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Cross Country Teams as announced today by Commissioner John D. Swofford.
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Dr. Eva Lee Part of $31 M Translational Partnership
ATLANTA (February 15, 2008) — This grant, one of the largest NIH grants in Georgia history, was awarded to the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (Atlanta-CTSI) a partnership of Atlanta academic, research and healthcare institutes that will focus on accelerating the translation of laboratory discoveries into healthcare innovations for patients so that new treatments can be developed more efficiently and delivered more quickly to patients.
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HSI Director Featured in Industry Webcast
ATLANTA (December 1, 2007) — HSI’s Francois Sainfort and Statcom’s Ben Sawyer discuss the significance of the results of the 2007 National Survey on Patient Throughput and Capacity Challenges, sponsored by StatCom.
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Evidence-Based ICU Design Receives National Acclaim
ATLANTA (November 26, 2007) — The Neurosciences Critical Care Unit at Emory University Hospital has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2008 ICU Design Citation Award. The product of a unique collaboration between Owen Samuels, MD, director of neuroscience critical care at Emory, and Craig Zimring, an environmental psychologist and professor in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech, the Unit was designed and built around evidence-based design principles.

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HSI Researchers Recipients of the National Science Foundation’s CYBER TRUST Award
ATLANTA (September 5, 2007) — HSI’s François Sainfort & Paula Edwards on the investigative team of a recently funded NSF grant
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2007-2008 HSI Seed Grant Program Recipients Announced
ATLANTA (August 27, 2007) — Five proposals funded for latest round of seed grants
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Leanne Metcalfe Receives Southern Regional Education Board Fellowship
ATLANTA (August 24, 2007) — HSI Ph.D student receives Southern Regional Education Board Fellowship
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Charlie Kemp Receives Award from the Coulter Foundation for Robotics Research
ATLANTA (August 21, 2007) — Research will advance the state of the art by developing an autonomous robot that fetches everyday objects
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HSI’s Charlie Kemp Co-PI on Award from the National Science Foundation
ATLANTA (August 21, 2007) — Robotic research effort to further robot learning capabilities
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Ji Soo Yi Awarded 2007 Korean-American Scientist and Engineers Association (KSEA) Scholarship
ATLANTA (May 22, 2007) — Ji Soo has been awarded the 2007 Korean-American Scientist and Engineers Association (KSEA) Scholarship. The scholarship honors high-achieving scholars who are working on high-impact ideas in their graduate work.
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Eva Lee Wins 2007 Franz Edelman Award
ATLANTA (May 9, 2007) — Dr. Eva K. Lee in conjunction with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) won the prestigious 2007 Franz Edelman Award for extraordinary research in advancing cancer treatment. Lee’s optimization models and algorithms guide doctors toward the most effective dose of radiation to provide consistent tumor-killing radiation doses to the tumor cells while limiting potentially damaging doses to nearby critical structures. The Franz Edelman competition recognizes outstanding examples of operations research (O.R.) projects that have transformed companies, entire industries and people’s lives.
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2007 Seed Grant Call for Proposals
ATLANTA (May 1, 2007) — To support collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects, with the goal to stimulate improvements in health care
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Tech Research Wins Prestigious Competition
ATLANTA (May 1, 2007) — A Georgia Tech project has won an international competition that singles out the best operations research project by an organization.
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Georgia Tech Aligns with Children’s to Establish Center for Pediatric Outcomes and Quality
ATLANTA (March 14, 2007) — CPOQ will apply the latest technologies and methods from biomedical engineering, computer science, industrial engineering, management and other disciplines to solve problems associated with delivering quality care to children.
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GT/Emory collaboration yields improved critical care facility
ATLANTA, GA (February 5, 2007) — The state-of-the-art facility is based on two overarching goals: to create an environment that facilitates teamwork among staff members and to be family- and patient-centered.
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CHS Announces Largest Collection of Reconciled Public Health Data
VIENNA, VA (February 2, 2007) — Comprehensive Health Services (CHS), a nationwide workforce health management company, today announced that its sponsorship of the Workforce Health Assessment Model (WHAM) with the Health Systems Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University has completed the first step in the project.
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HIMSS Dedicated to Advancement of IT in Health Care
ATLANTA, GA (December 15, 2006) — Cowan, a consultant in the health care industry for 25 years, is currently an Executive in Residence and leads the Masters Program in the Health Systems Institute at Georgia Tech as part of the School of Biomedical Engineering. Cowan started the Georgia Chapter of HIMSS in 1983 and led the chapter for the first year, serving as president in 1983-84; he is also the current president.
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"Manipulation in Human Environments” awarded Best Paper at the 2006 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
ITALY (December 6, 2006) — Dr. Charlie Kemp and Dr. Aaron Edsinger receive award at premier international conference for work involving robot manipulation in human environments
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Professorship created by a lead commitment from alumnus Joseph C. Mello
ATLANTA, GA (July 3, 2006) — The Joseph C. Mello Professorship will foster the interdisciplinary approach necessary to make a difference for the entire health care system while at the same time,support Georgia Tech’s thought leadership.
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Tech/Emory Announce Health Systems Institute
ATLANTA, GA (March 2, 2006) — A new institute at Georgia Tech and Emory University will develop systems and technologies designed to help improve communication among all the players in health care, from the patients to the doctors, administrators and insurers. Tech will receive funding totaling $5 million to establish the institute, called The Health Systems Institute (HSI). The institute will partner with local, regional and national health care organizations to research, develop, implement, test and distribute improved technologies for health care that will integrate state-of-the-art information, decision support, communication and biomedical technologies.
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Georgia Tech Grad Gives $1 Million to Health Systems Engineering Program
ATLANTA, GA (July 1, 2005) — William W. George, chairman of Medtronic Inc., plans to establish a $1 million endowment to support a new faculty position in health systems engineering
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One Size Doesn’t Fit All
ATLANTA (December 4, 2004) — Software under development would customize graphics-based computer interaction for people with low vision.
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