AnnualReport2021

Philadelphia, and Frank L. Hammond III, Ph.D., from the Adaptive Robotic Manipulation Laboratory at GIT. EXPANDING OUR PARTNERSHIPS Our Shriners Hospitals/GIT partnership is also expanding to encompass the fields of precision medicine and big data analysis and interpretation. The new initiative creates pilot research projects and tools that align with the needs and aims of the Shriners Hospitals network of clinicians in order to enable state-of-the-art clinical research and facilitate clinical practice. The overall goal remains to improve the lives of children treated at our health care system.

Rounds in January 2021. These popular monthly presentations are offered via the Microsoft Teams video conference platform. The Shriners Hospitals health care system and Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) affiliation agreement in support of clinical research programs between our physicians, surgeons and GIT engineers continues to advance. One new project aims to design and construct a wearable sensor device to improve neuromotor control for pediatric patients with spinal cord injuries. This exciting work is a collaboration between Scott Kozin, M.D., hand surgeon and chief of staff of Shriners Hospitals for Children —

SEVEN SEED GRANTS WILL BEGIN THIS SUMMER

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3D Graphical Scale for Assessing Hip Functional Range of Motion

Craniofacial Microsomia (CFM) Informatics Infrastructure

GL-SMART (Greenville- Lexington Shriners Hospitals Multisite AI-enabledRehabilitation Technology)

HR-pQCT Informatics Infrastructure

Machine Learning to Predict Fentanyl Efficacy and Adverse Effects to Advance Precision Medicine

Platform Architecture and Machine Learning for Arthrogryposis

Sports Medicine Registry

A clinical research grant entitled, “Regenerative therapy for epidermolysis bullosa (EB) using transgenic stem cells,” has been awarded to a group of Shriners Hospitals’ burns investigators to develop a therapeutic approach to

2020-2021 YEAR IN REVIEW

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