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CARING WISELY

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Caring Wisely Ideas Contest. The 6 winners were selected from 32 submitted ideas by a judging panel consisting of healthcare providers and staff.

• Peter Barish, MD – Put Down the Swab: Reducing Unnecessary Respiratory Viral PCRs

• Zlatan Coralic, PharmD –Reducing Avoidable Hospital Days for Patients with Low-Risk Pulmonary Embolism

• Keith Hansen, MD – Identifying New Options for Surgical Instrument Reprocessing

• Igor Immerman, MD – Implementation of WALANT (wide awake local anesthesia no tourniquet) pathway for basic hand surgeries

• Heidemarie Macmaster, PharmD –No more finger sticks – monitor blood sugars with CGM (continuous glucose monitor)

• Ashley Thompson, PharmD –Albumin Stewardship and Appropriate Utilization Initiative

Please join us in congratulating your colleagues, and thank you to everyone who submitted to the Ideas Contest.

2022 Catalyst Awardees

Nadav Ahituv, PhD and Ofer Yizhar-Barnea, PhD Identification of Neoantigens for CAR-T Therapy Using Neomer Discovery

Lauren Asarnow, PhD Improving Sleep Among Adolescents through Digital Health Solutions

Andy Chang, PhD and Alexandra Scharr, PhD Targeting a Non-opioid Signaling Pathway to Reverse Opioid-induced Respiratory Depression

Emily Finlayson, MD, MPH, MS PrehabPal: AI-powered Surgery Preparation for Vulnerable Older Adults

Alexander Haddad, MD, Manish Aghi, MD, PhD, MAS, and Noriyuki Kasahara, MD, PhD Synthetic Novel Replicating Retroviral Gene Therapy Platform for the Treatment of Glioblastoma

Keith Hansen, MD, James Gardner, MD, PhD, and Garett Roll, MD, FACS DIATIRO Kidney Cooling Jacket: A Regelation Device to Address the Organ Shortage and Improve Transplant Longevity

Matthew Jacobson, PhD N-(4-(dimethylamino)but-2-enyl)-7-chloro-quinolin-4-amine (DAQ) for Treating Chloroquine-resistant Malaria

Noriyuki Kasahara, MD, PhD Universal Stem Cell-based Delivery of Tumor-Selective Retroviral Replicating Vectors

Anastasia Keller, PhD and Jeannie Bailey, PhD Application of Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation for Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain

Aras Mattis, MD, PhD Therapeutic Targeting of TM6SF2 Fatty Liver Disease

S. John Liu, MD, PhD, Luke Gilbert, PhD, David Raleigh MD, PhD, and William A. Weiss, MD, PhD High-resolution Discovery of Novel Therapeutics for Glioblastoma Using in vivo CRISPR Perturb-seq

Timothy McCalmont, MD, Michael Wang, MD, Avideh Zakhor, PhD and Neil Neumann, MD, PhD Quantifying Invasive Tumor Volume by Deep Learning to Improve Malignant Melanoma Prognosis

Julie Saba, MD, PhD Adeno-associated Virus-mediated SGPL1 Gene Therapy

Julie Schallhorn, MD, MS and Nailyn Rasool, MD Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation for Sustained Eyelid Closure

Jeffrey Sharon, MD Development and Validation of a Machine Learning Based Smartphone Application for Point of Care Vestibular Testing