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CHEPS Fall 2023 Seminar Series: Alexander T. Janke
Same series, new structure This year in U-M’s Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) 813 course, the Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS) is experimenting with a new format focused on enhancing innovation by leveraging resources across the University. Titled Providing Better Healthcare Through Systems Engineering and led by Professor Amy Cohn, this series…
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Cole Weber, Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate
Cole Weber, a Biomedical Engineering student at U-M, muses on his motivation for working in healthcare, remaining true to himself, and the power of parental support. At birth, I almost killed my mom. During the fifty-six hour labor in a Wisconsin blizzard (once again, sorry Mom), she started to hemorrhage to the point where the…
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Summer Moments at CHEPS
Yueyun Xia, an Industrial and Operations Engineering student at U-M, reflects on her summer at CHEPS. 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…
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University of Michigan’s Amy Cohn identified as top Chief Transformation Officer
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. Becker’s explains that “Chief transformation officers inspire, model and implement lasting change at their organizations. Armed with problem-solving and leadership skills, these executives set the goals and…
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CHEPS Takes Toronto: Aparna Reddy’s Experience at the 2023 INFORMS Healthcare Conference
Aparna Reddy, a Public Health student at U-M, reflects on her experience traveling to Toronto, Canada to present her CHEPS research at the 2023 INFORMS Healthcare Conference. My name is Aparna Reddy, and I am a rising senior at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Last month I had the opportunity to attend…
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From Healthcare Novice to Healthcare Innovator
Maddy Heyer, a Computer Science and Engineering student at U-M, shares about what she has learned from her summer at CHEPS. “We had a young patient in critical condition today, but thankfully we got them stabilized.” “Creating this month’s schedule was such a headache.” “My feet are already aching and I have two more twelves…
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CHEPS alumnus publishes ureteroscopy irrigation research
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. The article, titled “Under pressure: irrigation practice patterns during flexible ureteroscopy,” investigates the challenges of irrigation during these procedures and consults…
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Shun Akiyama, Computer Science Undergraduate
Shun Akiyama, a Computer Science and Engineering student at U-M, reflects on his summer at CHEPS. How’d you get involved in the Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS)? While I was looking for what I was going to do during the summer, I found CHEPS on an email from the College of…
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A Personal Connection Between Engineering Mindsets and the Work Done at CHEPS
Hannah Eller, a Biomedical Engineering student at U-M, shares her experiences working to improve healthcare quality as a CHEPS researcher. When I was a junior in high school, my grandmother was hospitalized for a transient ischemic attack, more commonly known as a mini-stroke. As someone without a big family history of strokes, her care team…
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CHEPS: Where Engineering and Healthcare Overlap
Josh Tran, a pre-med student at U-M, shares his experiences as a transfer student, healthcare worker, and CHEPS researcher. When I transferred to the University of Michigan less than a year ago, it felt as if I had jumped headfirst into the middle of a new book. I arrived at U-M halfway through my sophomore…
