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| Research Blog - Duke

Solving More Medical Device Challenges by Teaching Others How

The mission of Design Health is to train the next generation of medical innovators.

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| Duke Nursing

Design Health Program Sparks Innovation in Nursing Students

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| Duke Pratt School of Engineering

Design Health Team Places on International Top 20 Shortlist for 2021 James Dyson Award

Design Health Team ArchGaurd places in prestigious international competition.

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Five Questions with ArchGuard co-founders Kevin Rosenthal and Kelly Yang

Design Health co-founders share their experience and recent success.

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| Duke BME

A Pipeline from Makerspace to Marketplace

Introducing the new home of Design Health!

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Shaping Tomorrow's Healthcare Innovators

Future directions for Design Health

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| Duke BME

Design Health Program Impresses on the National Stage

Duke’s Design Health teams are finding success, earning top spots in national design competitions and turning innovative prototypes into patents

The design work of one student group in the class, who developed an illuminated IV line to help nurses identify the right line faster.

| Duke Today

Designing Better Healthcare at Duke

The Duke Design Health Program prepares future nurses, engineers, doctors and other Duke students to think critically about how they can resolve pressing issues across medicine and healthcare.

Design Health Fellows Alejandro Pino (left) and Konstantinos Economopoulos (right) collaborating on a presentation for the PAPR Bridge Project. Picture taken by Theresa Thompson

| MEDx

Redesigning Healthcare: A Q&A About Duke Design Health

The Design Health program bridges the expertise in disciplines across Duke to create real-world solutions to pressing needs in health care

Dr. Melissa Erickson dons a PAPR device featuring a 3D-printed part rapidly designed, tested and produced by the Duke COVID-19 Engineering Response Team

| Pratt.duke.edu

COVID-19 Engineering Response Team Assembles from Every Corner of Duke

Through strong networks connecting students, faculty and staff across Duke University and Duke Health, a dedicated team has mobilized to engineer solutions to problems created by the pandemic.

| medschool.duke.edu

Embedded in the OR

Duke’s Design Health program gives interdisciplinary student teams (like the one pictured above) a new opportunity to create medical solutions

| today.duke.edu

3-D Printing to Give Medical Teams the Highest Level of Protection

COVID-19 Engineering Response Team tackles powered, air-purifying respirator (PAPR)

| Pratt.duke.edu

Solving Pressing Challenges: 3D Printing of Medical Grade Face Shields

Duke's COVID-19 engineering response team springs into action

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| Duke Engineering News

Design Health Program Launches at Duke Engineering

New program assembles teams across engineering, medicine and business to design solutions for unmet needs in hospitals and clinics