January/February 2014

EMBS at Half a Century

Author(s)3: Bruce Wheeler
EMBS at Half a Century 150 150 IEEE Pulse

I recently had the opportunity to give a short talk describing the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) to students and faculty of the University of Florida. While looking over background material,…

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Triple Threat

Author(s)3: Matthew Canver
Triple Threat 150 150 IEEE Pulse

The start of my second year of graduate school has brought some refreshing changes. I no longer walk into the lab with the paralyzing fear that I do not know…

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Women in Leadership: Goldilocks Syndrome

Author(s)3: Zen Liu
Women in Leadership: Goldilocks Syndrome 150 150 IEEE Pulse

Most children have probably heard the classic fairy tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” A young girl with golden hair wanders into the empty house of three different bears—one small,…

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Colin J.H. Brenan Joins IEEE PULSE as new EIC

Author(s)3: Colin J. H. Brenan
Colin J.H. Brenan Joins IEEE PULSE as new EIC 150 150 IEEE Pulse

Beginning in January 2014, Colin Brenan succeeds Mike Neuman as editor-in-chief (EIC) of IEEE Pulse, and on his agenda are a number of editorial changes designed to increase the magazine’s…

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Innovating Openly

Author(s)3: Carol Cruzan Morton
Innovating Openly 618 372 IEEE Pulse

Several years ago, Stanford University researchers stumbled across something unexpected. In the course of examining the autopsied brain tissue of people with multiple sclerosis (MS), a team in Lawrence Steinman’s laboratory…

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Science by the Masses

Author(s)3: Julia Brenan
Science by the Masses 618 372 IEEE Pulse

Funding any business venture can be daunting, especially for entrepreneurs, who must sometimes raise millions of dollars from private investors to launch a new idea. Eric Migicovsky, CEO of Pebble…

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Bridging the Gap from Bench to Bedside

Author(s)3: Yuguo Tang, Shouyan Wang, Yile Wang, Xiaoman Xing, Yong Yu, Wenfei Dong
Bridging the Gap from Bench to Bedside 618 372 IEEE Pulse

The phrase “made in China” is everywhere, just not in our health care system. China ranks as the world’s third-largest medical device market and is expected to become the second-largest market…

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Accelerating the Innovation Cycle

Author(s)3: John Parrish, Steven Schachter, Penny Carleton, Mike Dempsey, Diane Spiliotis, John Collins
Accelerating the Innovation Cycle 618 372 IEEE Pulse

If ever an industry was in need of both incremental and disruptive innovation, it is today’s health care industry. Realizing the full potential of innovation across the spectrum of health…

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Barriers to Health Care Innovation

Author(s)3: Regina Herzlinger
Barriers to Health Care Innovation 618 372 IEEE Pulse

Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business…

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