Duke Design Health Fellows Program (2019-2020)
This Bass Connections project was implemented in three sequential phases of identification, invention and implementation. Through a partnership with the Duke Heart Center, teams of fellows were immersed in a clinical environment and used structured ethnography tools to collect unmet patient needs (identification phase). These needs were then analyzed and screened using market analyses, intellectual property assessments and other tools before transitioning to concept generation. In the second half of the program, hundreds of concepts were generated, screened and prototyped to produce a strong product (invention phase). The team then developed business, regulatory, reimbursement, clinical and manufacturing plans to implement the product (implementation phase).
Team members Len Assakul, Pratik Doshi, Anish Nigade and Kelly Yang received a 2020 Bass Connections Student Research Award. This group will continue working on ArchGuard, a novel cerebral deflection device that helps prevent stroke in patients with aortic stenosis, a degeneration and calcification of the heart valves.
Timing
Fall 2019 – Spring 2020
Video
2021 CIC Graduate Finalist - ArchGuard
This Team in the News
Five Questions with ArchGuard Co-Founders Kevin Rosenthal & Kelly Yang
Design Health Program Impresses on the National Stage
Designing Better Healthcare at Duke
COVID-19 Engineering Response Team Assembles from Every Corner of Duke
Meet the Winners of the 2020 Bass Connections Student Research Awards
Image: Courtesy of Duke Heart Center Twitter account