Indian American to steer Henry Ford Innovation Institute
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 07 June 2011, 00:40 IST
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Indian American to steer Henry Ford Innovation Institute
Bangalore: Obama says that "technology will save healthcare" and it is very true that information technology is what broadening our access to a different level of medical resource. Technology has only added different dimensions to healthcare and the biggest question is how would we be making use of it in the next coming years or rather how are we implementing it? Thinking on something rational as that, the Henry Ford Innovation Institute has come up with a state-of-the-art healthcare centre as Dr. Madhu Prasad the director of the Institute. The institute is geared up to unite physicians, healthcare workers, engineers, scientists and design students in an effort to improve healthcare. The institute is building its innovation on next-generation robotic platforms for surgery and the application of new aerospace engineering materials for medicine and sensor technology. The institute is currently working on Raman spectroscopy (a technique used to study vibrational, rotational and other low-frequency modes in a system). According to Dr. Madhu Prasad, director of the Innovation Institute, "We believe the application of technology is one of the key approaches to improving the quality of patient care, reducing costs and broadening access to state-of-the-art healthcare in the U.S. and globally." The Institute is also encouraging collaborations with academic institutions like Wayne State University, the College for Creative Studies, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, the University of Chicago and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain. The innovation centre will also hold business partnerships with Lockheed Martin Corp, Texas Instruments and GE Healthcare. The goal of the institute, says Prasad, "is to synergistically apply space-age science to medicine to advance human healthcare. This cross-fertilization of people with diverse backgrounds is critical," he says, adding that "design thinking" - a protocol for solving problems and discovering new opportunities "has proved to be very successful in the development of medical ideas and new approaches to treating patients." Dr. Prasad said that the details of the deals are yet to be worked out. He also said that the plan is to create at least some for-profit companies based on the students' work, with the students having some ownership in partnership with Henry Ford Health System, CCS and investors. Madhu Prasad is an Indian American who expertises in Digestive System Abnormalities; Liver Diseases and Surgical Oncology. Dr. Prasad did his medical schooling at the Wayne state University School of Medicine. He completed his medical graduation in the year 1990. He is also associated with many medical associations and colleges like AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MEDICAL ACCUPUNTURE and American college of surgeons. He is associated with nearly 15 hospitals. Coming to the Carnegie Mellon University, Pradeep K. Khosla is currently Dean of the College of Engineering. Pradeep K. Khosla is an Indian American computer scientist and Dean of the College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering. He is also the Philip and Marsha Dowd University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon. Khosla received a B.Tech (Hons) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1980. After graduating he worked in the area of real-time control with Tata Consulting Engineers and Siemens until 1982. By 1986 he received both an MS and PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) where he continued to work as a professor. Carnegie Mellon is renowned as one of the world's top centers for robotics design and virtual reality systems to help doctors plan for and practice complicated surgeries. The institute, which will occupy a 15,000-square-foot Albert Kahn-designed building on the main campus of Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, will be completed in the fall. According to Prasad, "We will focus on product development, protection of intellectual property, licensing our products to existing companies and creating the center point of a new medical tech/biotech industry in Detroit."

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