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Team: Dina Abedi, Hypatia Hou, Andre Mangulabnan Client: Janice Schwartz, MD, Dept of Medicine, Elder Mobility, UCSF Problem: Touchscreen technology is ubiquitous in work, leisure, communication, and in healthcare. Recent studies show that older adults find touch screens intuitive, respond positively to well-designed touchscreens, and adopt well-designed systems. With >2.8B touchscreen units sold (2016) and >30% of the…

Team: Sahil Hansalia, Jessica Li, Keith Nishihara, Tinglin Wu Client: Danielle Brandman, MD, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco Problem: In patients with cirrhosis (severe liver disease), ascites fluid can accumulate in the abdomen. Ascites arises from pressure build up in the veins of the liver, causing reduced liver function. The pressure blocks blood flow in the liver,…

Team: Arvind Gouttumukkala, Tanya Kumar, Emma Manzano, Matthew Sie Client: Joe Forrester, MD; Department of Surgery and Trauma/Critical Care Fellow, Stanford University Problem: Trauma is ubiquitous to the human experience. Regardless of nationality or socioeconomic status, a critically injured trauma patient is a person left without options, often dependent upon a surgeon for life-saving procedures and care. The…

Team: Anshu Agarwal, Nicholas Hsu, Yasmine Ibrahim, Edwin Tang Client: Arash Afshinnik, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Neurology, UCSF School of Medicine, Fresno Problem: For patients in critical care for brain injury treatment, physical therapy and diagnostic monitoring of limb motion and strength are important metrics of recovery. Presently, the intensive care until has no objective measurement of…

Team: Ashna Jasuja, Karthik Ramesh, Sarah Spivack Client: Elizabeth Pierce, MRI Technologist, MRI Laboratory, UCSF Problem: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an essential diagnostic tool in definitely diagnosing diseases, including multiple sclerosis. While routinely utilized in clinical settings, the MRI user environment is harsh. While perhaps surprising, we have an unmet need for non-magnetic storage and dispensing capabilities…

Team: Kaleb Branda, Joe Chen, Edgar Ulises Hernandez, Jin Tanizaki Client: Claire Clelland, MD, PhD; Dept of Neurology, UCSF Problem: Frontotemporal dementia patients have decreased heart rate changes to fear or anxiety, which reflects a well-known symptom of dementia: lack of empathy. Current mouse heart rate monitors are not useful as they require mice to be anesthetized, immobilized…

Team: Leslie Leung, Adriane Ocampo, Nicholas Tjahjono, Tong Zhang Client: Steven Hetts, MD, Associate Professor in Residence of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF and Teri Moore, IR Laboratory Manager, UCSF, San Francisco Problem: In an emerging area of clinical medicine, endovascular catheter devices are being designed that enable chemotherapy delivery in a targeted manner, reducing patient side…

Team: Jovanny Guillen, Tatiana Jansen, Irene Kim Client: Jared Forrester, MD, Resident in Surgery, General Surgery, & Joe Forrester, MD, Resident in Surgery, General Surgery, Palo Alto Problem: Post-operative infections cause a tremendous burden of morbidity and mortality, especially in low-resource settings. Risk factors for developing an infection include patient comorbidities, pathogen characteristics, and what specifically occurs to…

Team: Erika Cruz, Joshua Deng, Vincent Kwan, Hannah Tang Client: Sunghoon Kim, MD, Division of Pediatric Surgery, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, Oakland Problem: Access to veins and arteries is a central part of medicine, including for placing an intravenous tube (IV). While several ‘vein finder’ tools are available for superficial (near skin) veins, deep veins and arteries are…