“When I first got offered the job at CHEPS, I was like any other 19-year-old girl going into her first job…anxious about making friends and doing good work. Little did I know that I was about to be given the most amazing team that I now consider lifelong friends.”

On September 16, a diverse group from across U-M and beyond gathered to discuss innovative ways to enhance emergency care for youth experiencing mental health crises.

“On September 13, I had a chance to attend the e-HAIL (E-Health and Artificial Intelligence) Symposium, which provided me the opportunity to learn more about generative AI in healthcare through a variety of engaging presentations.”

On Saturday, September 14, CHEPSters visited Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History to raise awareness and funds for the 2024 Sickle Cell Matters Walk, sponsored by the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America.

The Fall 2024 CHEPS Seminar Series kicked off with a multidisciplinary discussion on improving emergency department operations, emphasizing creativity and patient-centric approaches.

“I think it is especially critical for those working in healthcare to understand and recognize the importance of Juneteenth, as it highlights how these ongoing patterns of discrimination and health disparities are not ahistorical. Juneteenth serves as a call to action for us to recognize and address the inequities in the American healthcare system that disproportionately impact under-resourced communities.”

“CHEPS provided me with the opportunity to share my knowledge of public health to the Summer ‘24 cohort. I presented to my fellow CHEPSters about the importance of understanding what public health is and how the social determinants of health impact people on an individual and population level.”

Jared Pavlick graduates May 4th, 2024 with his master’s degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering. After three semesters with CHEPS, Jared reflects on his experiences in an interview with his roommate and fellow graduating CHEPSter, Alexios.

In celebration of National Donate Life Month, Industrial and Operations Engineering master’s student Kira Woodhouse shares about the process of becoming a living organ donor.

On Friday, March 22, five CHEPS students attended the 2024 Disability Visibility Symposium put on by U-M Mechanical Engineering and U-M Computer Science and Engineering.

“After finishing undergrad, I felt a pang of regret for not writing a paper or attending a conference. But thanks to CHEPS, I finally got to tick those boxes off my student bucket list!”

What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than by networking cross-functionally to support LGBTQ+ health research at the University of Michigan?

Anjali Petrucci, an Industrial and Operations Engineering undergraduate student and CHEPS researcher, recounts the thrills of the Michigan Dance Team’s 2023-2024 season.

“One of the most interesting things about birth is that there are two patients, and those two patients can be having very different outcomes, and the decisions can impact them differently. There’s not a real metric for how you can combine their utilities.”

This week, pediatric emergency physician Andrew Fine shared his perspective on using artificial intelligence as a tool to mitigate documentation-related physician burnout.

On Monday, November 6th, the ninth annual Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS) Symposium brought together students, alumni, faculty, clinicians, and community members to celebrate another year of multidisciplinary healthcare innovation.

Over 80% of maternal deaths in the U.S. are preventable. According to Dr. Alex Peahl and Dr. Molly Stout, tailored prenatal healthcare may be a solution.

Karthik Ramani, Medical Director of Interventional Nephrology and Vascular Access Services at Michigan Medicine, joined CHEPS in a discussion about ways to democratize clinical trials.

“The work that we’ve done was mostly getting the rail gauges correct,” Michigan Medicine’s Chief Information Officer shared, referring to the digitization that occurred largely throughout the 2000s and 2010s in the United States. “Now, the transformation can start—if we can figure out how to change our workflow.”

Kramer believes the solution lies in rights-based family planning and human-centered design. She seeks a system where rather than feeling neglected and generalized by doctors normalizing the side effects of contraceptive care, they can feel uplifted and listened to by their providers.

On Friday, September 29th, CHEPS alumnus Ryan Chen participated in U-M’s IOE 101 Career Seminar Series.

On Monday, September 25th, the Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS) partnered with Sung Won Choi, MD, MS and Jodyn Platt, MPH to discuss the intricacies of informed consent within the bone marrow transplantation process.

This week at the Providing Better Healthcare Through Systems Engineering Seminar Series, students, staff, faculty, clinicians, and community members had the opportunity to discuss the intersection of two distinct industries: pharmaceuticals and aerospace.

This week we spoke with Dr. Alexander T. Janke, Emergency Physician, during a session titled “Reducing Emergency Department ‘Left-Without-Being-Seen’ Rates.”

“I’m always amazed at our progression in health and medicine and how many lives it has saved. This interest and amazement only furthered as years progressed, and my sisters, mother, and I had different health issues that were all managed and aided by medicine and the research behind it.”

“Looking back at my time at CHEPS this past summer, all of the memories swirl in my head: my handwriting on the whiteboards for the optimization model, meetings with collaborators, lunch and learns…but there are a few special moments that I’ll cherish most of all…”

According to Becker’s Hospital Review, Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS) Faculty Director Amy Cohn is one of 49 chief transformation officers to know in 2023.

“As an aspiring physician, this conference was an incredible opportunity to learn about the different initiatives to improve the efficiency of our healthcare system.”

“Beyond my passion for coding, it was important for me to find a way to create a meaningful impact. And what better way to do that than to harness my engineering skills to make improvements in healthcare?” Maddy Heyer, a Computer Science and Engineering student at U-M, shares what she’s learned from her summer at CHEPS.

CHEPS alumus and fourth-year medical school student Bassel Salka recently published a research article on irrigation practices during ureteroscopy (the process of looking into the ureters and kidneys using a camera) in Thereapeutic Advances in Urology.

“My experience at CHEPS gives me context for how computer science skills are applied in the real world.”

Hannah Eller, a Biomedical Engineering student at U-M, shares her experiences working to improve healthcare quality as a CHEPS researcher.