Four winners have been selected for the 2024-2025 Big Ideas Competition award! Each of these remarkable teams will be awarded a grant of $50,000 in research funds for their outstanding projects. Among the winning teams is Dr. Jing Li from the Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I2DB).
(PI / project lead in bold):
- Harnessing machine learning for the transition to automated healthcare-associated infection surveillance
- Jonas Marschall, MD, MSc, Andrew Atkinson, PhD, Jordan Shapiro, Lan Luong, David Warren, MD, MPH, Carole Leone, Megan Dethloff, Hilary Babcock, MD, MPH
- Coaching peripheral nerve surgery with mixed reality – the time is now
- Christopher Dy, MD, MPH, Patrick Donohue, MD/MS, Wilson Ray, MD, MBA, Susan Mackinnon, MD
- Machine Learning Assisted Diagnosis of Delirium (ML-ADD)
- Robert Young, MD, MS, Chenyang Lu, PhD, Mark V. Williams, MD, Jing Li, MD, DrPH, MS, David Carr, MD
- Addressing Wait Time Issues in Primary Care
- Nicholas Roth, Marc Lewen, DO, Jennifer Carron, Breanna Fuller, Petra Jackson, Emily Skowron
We are also pleased to announce that the Harnessing Machine Learning for the Transition to Automated Healthcare – Associated Infection Surveillance team will be awarded an additional $10,000 award from the Patient Safety Technology Challenge.
Sponsored by the BJC Healthcare Innovation Lab and I2DB, the Big Ideas Competition aims to recognize and support high-priority, novel projects from collaborative clinical, operational and research teams that are developing innovations in informatics and health care delivery. The competition was judged by leadership of BJC HealthCare and Washington University School of Medicine.
Thomas Maddox, PhD, Vice President of Digital Products and Innovation (the Lab), and Philip Payne, PhD, Director of I2DB, would like to thank Drs. Hilary Babcock, Sunny Lou, Adam Wilcox, and Paul Kerby for their assistance in reviewing the finalists’ applications.
Learn more about the Big Ideas Competition at bigideas.med.wustl.edu.