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SI North to Singapore: Surg Comp Takes on WSC 2022
In December of 2022, Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS) staff member Fumiya Abe-Nornes and students Rachel Zhang and Nathan Smith got to experience their dream as research assistants: Presenting at an international conference on their work. For the last few years, the Surgical Competency project team at CHEPS researched the limitations of…
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Laura Ely, Industrial & Operations Engineering Masters – Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety concentration
Hi! I’m Prachi Fozdar, a Business and Mechanical Engineering undergraduate working as a communications & marketing intern here at CHEPS. I was recently able to interview Laura Ely, a master’s student studying Industrial & Operations Engineering (IOE) with a concentration in Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (HEPS), to find out more about her experience in…
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Aparna Reddy, Bio/Anthro (Pre-Med) Undergraduate
Hi! I’m Prachi Fozdar, a Business and Engineering undergraduate working as a communications assistant at CHEPS. I was recently able to interview Aparna Reddy, an undergraduate sophomore currently on the pre-med track in LSA, to find out more about her work at CHEPS. How’d you get involved in CHEPS?“Freshman year I joined another student organization, Blueprints…
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Rachel Zhang, Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate
Hi! I’m Prachi Fozdar, a Business and Engineering undergraduate working as a communications assistant at CHEPS. I recently got the chance to interview Rachel Zhang, a junior in Biomedical Engineering on the pre-med track. Rachel started at CHEPS this past summer, making this winter her third term. Rachel’s story of joining CHEPS is one she…
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David Keller, Industrial & Operations Engineering Undergraduate
Hi! I’m Prachi Fozdar, a Business and Engineering undergraduate working as a communications assistant at CHEPS. I recently had the opportunity to interview David, an undergraduate junior majoring in Industrial & Operations and Engineering and minoring in Computer Science, to find out more about his work at CHEPS. How’d you find out about CHEPS and…
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Caroline Hirth, Industrial & Operations Engineering Undergraduate
I actually learned about CHEPS through some family connections. My dad (Hi dad!) works in the School of Public Health at UM and has known Amy Cohn, the Faculty Director of CHEPS, for several years. When my older sister, Lauren (Hey Lauren, too!), started out as an undergrad at Michigan, she met Amy through my…
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Nick Zacharek, Industrial and Operations Engineering Undergraduate
Hi everyone, my name is Nicholas (Nick) Zacharek, and I am a senior from Ann Arbor studying Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE), and have been working at CHEPS since May 2019. In my nearly 2.5 years at CHEPS, I can safely say that working here has been the best decision I have made in college.…
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Surgical Competency Team
This blog is written by Fumiya Abe-Nornes, Nisarg Polra, and Rachel Zhang of the Summer 2021 Surgical Competency Team. Surgical residency is just one of many steps that an individual has to go through in order to become a surgeon. The typical path for a surgical trainee is to attend medical school, followed by residency,…
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Prenatal Team
This blog is written by student members of the Summer 2021 Prenatal Team. The team consists of Claire Dawson, Dipra Debnanth, Stephanie Ganzi, Leena Ghrayeb, Meghana Kandiraju, Amanda Naccarato, and Harini Pennathur. Hello! This is the Prenatal team here at CHEPS! We work with Dr. Alex Friedman Peahl, a practicing OB-GYN physician at Michigan Medicine,…
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Shift Scheduling Team
This blog is written by the Summer 2021 Shift Scheduling Team: Dipra Debnath, Madelaine Emesden, Arlo Halpern, Yvonne Lin, and Shraddha Ramesh. The first thing the Shift Scheduling team did this summer was learn how to use the scheduling tool. We did this by watching our staff lead and scheduling wizard, Billy Pozehl, build the…
