{"620979":{"#nid":"620979","#data":{"type":"news","title":"SecURO Takes First Place at Johns Hopkins University Healthcare Design Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo teams of undergraduate Capstone students from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech and Emory, are finding success far beyond the borders of campus, with one of them taking home the top prize at a recent competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut then, the end of a semester is always Capstone season, when teams of student engineers show off the projects they\u0026rsquo;ve been working on for the past several months. Earlier this week saw the annual spring semester Capstone Design Expo at the Georgia Tech Institute of Technology, featuring 236 teams of underclassmen competing for prizes, including 34 teams from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe two Capstone teams that competed in the fall semester\u0026rsquo;s Design Expo continued capturing the attention of researchers and clinicians at the recent Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Healthcare Design Competition. SecURO and Libi Medical both made the finals in their respective divisions, or tracks, with SecURO winning first place, which earned them $4,000 prize and trophy (they gave the trophy to BME Capstone Director James Rains).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESecURO, now comprised of BME undergrads \u003Cstrong\u003EJared Brown\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EBailey Klee\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003ERachel Mann\u003C\/strong\u003E, was in the Advanced Healthcare track. Sponsored by the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., they designed a circular suturing device that will help surgeons perform safer, more efficient prostate removal procedures, with improved patient outcomes. SecURO automates the reconnection of the bladder and urethra, saving time and money while reducing potentially devastating postoperative complications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team also won the BME award at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s fall design expo. Team members then included, in addition to Klee and Mann, \u003Cstrong\u003ENicholas Quan\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EMadeline Smerchansky\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELibi Medical, which competed in the Global Health\/Humanitarian Design track at JHU, reached the finals but didn\u0026rsquo;t win. The team did win the top overall prize at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Design Expo in December\u0026rsquo;s fall event. At JHU, Libi was represented by team members \u003Cstrong\u003EElianna Paljug\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EElizabeth Kappler\u003C\/strong\u003E. The original team also included \u003Cstrong\u003EYahia Ali\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EHannah Geil\u003C\/strong\u003E. Two other students, \u003Cstrong\u003EJonathan Vehaun\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EMarino Lo\u003C\/strong\u003E, joined the team this spring to help with app development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u0026rsquo;s performance at JHU followed on the heels of a wildly successful competition at the ninth annual Rice 360\u2070 Institute for Global Health design competition in March, when Libi Medical won both the top prize and the people\u0026rsquo;s choice award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Two BME teams advanced to the competition finals with one team winning in its category"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo BME teams advanced to the competition finals with one team winning in its category\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two BME teams advanced to the competition finals with one team winning in its category"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2019-04-27 00:18:13","changed_gmt":"2019-04-27 00:18:13","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"620977":{"id":"620977","type":"image","title":"SecURO","body":null,"created":"1556323850","gmt_created":"2019-04-27 00:10:50","changed":"1556323850","gmt_changed":"2019-04-27 00:10:50","alt":"","file":{"fid":"236510","name":"IMG_3664.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_3664.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_3664.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":495298,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_3664.jpg?itok=eow-GwQo"}},"620978":{"id":"620978","type":"image","title":"Libi Medical","body":null,"created":"1556323938","gmt_created":"2019-04-27 00:12:18","changed":"1556323938","gmt_changed":"2019-04-27 00:12:18","alt":"","file":{"fid":"236511","name":"Libi Medical JHU Design Competition.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Libi%20Medical%20JHU%20Design%20Competition.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Libi%20Medical%20JHU%20Design%20Competition.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":944526,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Libi%20Medical%20JHU%20Design%20Competition.jpg?itok=fZHu9pVR"}}},"media_ids":["620977","620978"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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