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Students' Device Allows ICU Patients to Get
Back on Their Feet
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Back on Their Feet
Additional Photos
Joshua Lerman of Delray Beach, Fla.,
leader of the Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering
student team that designed the ICU MOVER, tests its
safety seat, surrounded by other members of his team.
Standing, from left, are Erica Jantho of St. Louis,
Mo.; Jinjie Chen of Longmount, Colo.; Jeremy Elser
of Baden, Pa.; Ravy Vajravelu of Orlando, Fla.;
Swarnali Sengupta of Virginia Beach, Va.; Hanlin
Wan of Cleveland, Ohio; and Derrick Kuan of
Saratoga, Calif. Photo by Will Kirk |
The faculty sponsor for the ICU MOVER design project was physician Dale Needham, an assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. |
During his senior year as a biomedical
engineering major, Joshua Lerman of Delray Beach,
Fla., led the Johns Hopkins student team that
designed and built the ICU MOVER. In the fall,
he will enter University of California, San Diego,
to pursue a doctorate in bioinformatics and
systems biology. Photo by Will Kirk |
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