Multidisciplinary collaboration as a sustainable research model for device development.
The concurrent problems of research sustainability and decreased clinician involvement with medical device development can be jointly addressed through a novel, multidisciplinary solution. The University of Rochester Cardiovascular Device Design Program is a sustainable program in medical device design supported through a collaboration between the Schools of Medicine and Engineering. This article provides a detailed description of the motivation for starting the program, the current structure of the program, the methods of financial sustainability, and the direct impact it intends to have on the national vascular surgery community. The further expansion of this program and encouragement for development of similar programs throughout the country aims to address many of our current challenges in both research funding and device development education.
Division of Vascular Surgery and the Center for Medical Technology Innovation, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA. ankur_chandra@urmc.rochester.edu
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