The Boyan & Schwartz's Laboratory's  very own,Barbara D. Boyan, Ph.D., is the Director of the new Atlanta Pediatric Device Consortium, created with support from the FDA with a two-year, $1.8 million grant awarded  to foster the development of medical devices focused on the special needs of Children.

 The consortium will provide assistance with engineering design, prototype development, pre-clinical and clinical studies and commercialization for novel pediatric medical devices.

Technologies are already underway to be investigated and include:

• A Smartphone attachment designed for at-home ear examinations:
• A renal dialysis device; and
• A gel designed to delay the re-fusion of a child's skull bones after surgery for craniosynostosis

Consortium Leadership

Barbara D. Boyan Ph.D., Director

Kevin Maher, a cardiologist and researcher at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta SIbley Heart Center and Emory University will co-direct along with WIlbur Lam, pediatric hematologists/oncologist and bioengineer at Emory, the Aflac Cancer Center of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Georgia tech.

Additional Leadership roles by Franklin Bost, professor of the practice and director of design instruction in the Coulter Department here at Georgia Tech and David Ku, Regents professor, Georgia Tech School of Mechanical Engineering and College of Management, Emory's Department of Surgery; and Nicholas Chronos, president of SJTRI.

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