{"639788":{"#nid":"639788","#data":{"type":"news","title":"BME Grads Make Georgia Trend 40-under-40","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMahdi Al-Husseini and Varun Yarabarla, both graduates from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, have been named to \u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Trend\u003C\/em\u003E magazine\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.georgiatrend.com\/2020\/09\/30\/2020-40-under-40\/\u0022\u003E40-under-40 for 2020\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAl-Husseini, 24, graduated in 2018 and was commissioned into the Army, where he is an aeromedical evacuations office, piloting Black Hawk helicopters to fly wounded soldiers out of harm\u0026rsquo;s way. While stationed at the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory at Fort Rucker in Alabama, he developed SALUS, an anti-rotational technology that prevents the litter, which holds the wounded soldier, from spinning uncontrollably inflight.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One of the beautiful things about spending my time with the Army while also being an engineer is that it has allowed me to very clearly funnel those engineering efforts into a very particular cause,\u0026rdquo; Al-Husseini told \u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Trend\u003C\/em\u003E writer Anna Bentley.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYarabarla, 26, who earned his undergraduate degree in 2016 and is a former Fulbright Scholar, \u0026ldquo;was in his third year of medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) in March 2020 when he joined Vent-Life, a team of engineers, physicians and innovators developing a low-cost ventilator to use during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond,\u0026rdquo; wrote \u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Trend\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/em\u003E Patty Rasmussen.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir stories, and 38 others, appear in the 24\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E edition of \u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Trend\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/em\u003E 40-under-40, in the October 2020 issue.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Mahdi Al-Husseini and Varun Yarabarla creating impact for wounded soldiers and in the fight against Covid-19"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMahdi Al-Husseini and Varun Yarabarla creating impact for wounded soldiers and in the fight against Covid-19\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Mahdi Al-Husseini and Varun Yarabarla creating impact for wounded soldiers and in the fight against Covid-19"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2020-10-01 12:28:15","changed_gmt":"2020-10-02 13:35:05","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"639786":{"id":"639786","type":"image","title":"Mahdi Al-Husseini","body":null,"created":"1601554829","gmt_created":"2020-10-01 12:20:29","changed":"1601554859","gmt_changed":"2020-10-01 12:20:59","alt":"","file":{"fid":"243228","name":"Al-Husseini.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Al-Husseini.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Al-Husseini.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":611186,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Al-Husseini.jpg?itok=1DfM_4mq"}},"639787":{"id":"639787","type":"image","title":"Varun Yarabarla","body":null,"created":"1601555099","gmt_created":"2020-10-01 12:24:59","changed":"1601555099","gmt_changed":"2020-10-01 12:24:59","alt":"","file":{"fid":"243231","name":"varun.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/varun.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/varun.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":117492,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/varun.jpg?itok=mIMUuuF0"}}},"media_ids":["639786","639787"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWriter\/Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech (EVPR\/BME)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}