2024 Aikens Innovation Academy
2024 Aikens Innovation Academy Cohort
Marissa D'Souza, MD
Resident, Neurology
Dr. D'Souza is designing a mobile app that will serve as an educational tool for patients and providers alike, aiming to improve care and understanding across diverse linguistic backgrounds. StrokeSpeak will provide detailed information on the spectrum of stroke care from prevention to acute treatment to post-stroke rehabilitation through pre-recorded video commands for the National Institutes of Health StrokeScale (NIHSS).
Amrish Deshmukh, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Electrophysiology
Dr. Deshmukh is developing a device and method to acquire data useful for decision-making in patients with cardiomyopathy and non-invasively obtain measurements needed for pacemaker implantation.
Grant Kruger, PhD
Associate Research Scientist, Engineering
Dr. Kruger is designing improved tools for enhanced early Esophageal injury (EI) detection and avoidance.
Prabhvir Singh Marway, MD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Radiology, Cardiothoracic Imaging
Dr. Marway's innovation is focused on opportunistic screening of disease from CT scans of the chest, capturing additional value for patients and providers in the context of ever-increasing imaging volumes.
Oscar Moreno, MD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Vascular Surgery
Dr. Moreno is developing a novel coated sirolimus venoplasty balloon that decreases cell-leukocyte adhesion for deep vein thrombosis, possibly reducing post-thrombotic complications and reinterventions.
Daniel D. Myers, Jr., DVM, MPH, DACLAM
Professor, Vascular Surgery, Surgery, and Laboratory Animal Medicine and Veterinarian, Laboratory Animal Medicine
Dr. Myers is interested in drug indexing, specifically the repurposing of current human drugs for veterinary purposes and determining novel targets for veterinary purposes.
