Regenstrief conference to highlight research partnerships for improving health-care system
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The spring conference led by Purdue University's Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering next week will focus on translating research results into meaningful heath-care system improvements.
The conference, titled Closing the Loop, will run from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday (April 6) in Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 121.
"Demonstrating the impact of health-care research is becoming increasingly important, both in submitting research proposals and in finding the best ways to improve the health-care system," said Regenstrief Center director Steven Witz, Purdue's St. Vincent Health Chair of Healthcare Engineering. "We believe research can help improve the delivery of care, and the key is bringing together researchers and health organizations that can work together toward that goal."
The event, which is free and open to the public, has local, regional and statewide appeal for health-care providers, as well as policy makers, researchers, engineers and those in the medical device arena. To register, go to https://www.purdue.edu/dp/rche/events/conferences/2010/spring/registration.php
Speakers will include Ann Christine Catlin, research scientist for Purdue's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing; Jim Benneyan, professor of mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering at Northeastern University; Dan Degnan, medication safety officer at Indianapolis-based Community Health Network; and David Zook, managing partner of the Washington, D.C., offices of law firm Baker & Daniels LLP and B&D Consulting.
Alan Rebar, executive director of Purdue's Discovery Park and senior associate vice president for research, will deliver opening remarks for the event, which will highlight:
* Research projects that have demonstrated impact in a clinical setting for helping close the research-to-impact loop.
* Successful researcher-provider partnerships and best-practice methods.
* Ideas for overcoming challenges and finding key research opportunities.
* Insight into including impact in research funding applications.
The Regenstrief Center, which is Purdue's only integrated universitywide research effort in health-care engineering, was launched five years ago with a $3 million grant from the Indianapolis-based Regenstrief Foundation. The foundation expanded the partnership in 2007 with grants of more than $14 million for additional research projects over the next five and a half years.
The Regenstrief Center was borne out of the 2004 report "Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership" by the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine. Co-written by Purdue industrial engineering professor W. Dale Compton, the report outlined ways that systems engineering could help deliver safe, effective, timely, efficient, equitable and patient-centered care.
Writer: Phillip Fiorini, 765-496-3133, pfiorini@purdue.edu
Sources: Steven Witz, 765-496-8303, switz@purdue.edu
Amira Zamin, 765-494-7075, azamin@purdue.edu