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$50-million-plus partnership to revolutionize health care

2/28/2014

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Peoria Journal Star (Feb. 28) -- With the backing of a $62.5 million endowment, a group of engineers, doctors and students will come together to improve and develop devices that will help train medical students, devices that for example simulate how a patient with an "overwhelming infection" responds to their various treatments, according to Dr. John Vozenilek. The team includes the University of Illinois College of Engineering, Jump Trading Simulation and Education Center at OSF HealthCare in Peoria, the UI's College of Medicine in Peoria, and OSF HealthCare, the network of Catholic hospitals and medical clinics. And in the coming years, officials with those entities expect opportunities for further collaboration on a variety of projects, such as improving medical devices, creating new ones and enhancing training tools. Also: News-Gazette (Feb. 28), WMBD-TV (Peoria, Feb. 28), CentralIllinoisProud.com (Feb. 28), The Peorian (Feb. 27), WCBU (Peoria Public Radio, Feb. 28), Crain's Chicago Business (Feb. 28), WCIA-TV (Champaign, Feb. 28).

The $50-million-plus Jump Applied Research for Community Health through Engineering and Simulation (Jump ARCHES) will create joint research projects between the Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center (Jump) at OSF HealthCare in Peoria and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s College of Engineering. - See more at: http://engineering.illinois.edu/news/article/7622#sthash.W31IFB2E.dpuf

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This story was published February 28, 2014.