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Meet the Team: Ari Lightman
Ari Lightman is a Professor of Digital Media and Marketing as well as Commercialization Advisor …
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Project Spotlight: Ingestible Impedance Sensors
Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is an inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract that can cause persistent …
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Project Spotlight: Multimodal Biomarkers
Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Effective, evidence-based treatments for depression exist but …
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Meet the Team: Dr. Julie Cramer
Julie Cramer, PhD, is a Technology Commercialization Associate at the Innovation Institute, University of Pittsburgh. …
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Why Leading Health Systems are Prioritizing Patient-Facing Digital Health Tools
The Center for Connected Medicine, a thought-leadership incubator and content hub of which UPMC is …
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PHDA Publications
Interested in learning more about some of the innovative methods that PHDA teams have developed …
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PHDA Participates in WSDM Conference
WSDM (pronounced “wisdom”) is a top-level conference on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. …
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Our Outlook for 2020
2019 was an exciting year for the PHDA. We teamed up with Amazon Web Services …
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Meet the Team: Dr. Kathrin Gassei
Kathrin Gassei, MSc, PhD, is the Senior Program Manager at the Center for Commercial Applications …
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Project Spotlight: Intracranial Pressure Monitoring
The healthy brain maintains a relatively constant blood flow to the brain even when there …
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Project Spotlight: MyHealthyPregnancy
The costs of preterm births to the healthcare system and society are exceedingly large, and …
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Project Spotlight: Aneurysm Prognosis Classifier
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) remains the 15th leading cause of death in the United States. …
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