Clinical Engineers at UCSF Hack The Operating Room
UCSF Surgical Innovations Program - - November 01, 2016
The UCSF Department of Surgery's longstanding partnership with engineers to invent new medical technologies in response to patient needs was featured in a recent story by UC Berkeley journalism student Alex Orlando. The article profiles Richard Fechter, Principal Development Engineer at UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, and long-time collaborator of Michael R. Harrison, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Surgery at UCSF, who pioneered the field of fetal surgery in the 1980s.
As medical technology continues to cross the threshold into the 21st century, clinical engineers [...]