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that come here regularly,
you'll know that

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of administrative stuff

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All right. And
interested guests.

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All right. Wonderful.

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So I'm supposed to remind
you to turn off your

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phones and to clean
up your trash and to

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please not dine and dash
because you will not

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want to miss our excellent
presentation today.

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Before we get to today's
talk, I want to give you a

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heads up for next week.
It'll be something a little

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different. We're going
to have IPAT Research

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Lightning Talks. So these
will be a high-level overview

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of a whole bunch of different
IPAT research projects.

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So that should be exciting
and not to be missed.

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Now I want to introduce
our speaker for today,

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Leanne West.

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So she is a Chief Engineer
of Pediatric Technologies

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at the Georgia Tech
Pediatric Innovation Network.

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And in her 25 years working
at Georgia Tech, 25 plus,

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sorry, because you've even
been here longer than me.

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Yeah.

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She has led multi-million
dollar programs and teams

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of researchers to develop
products for government

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and industry partners.
She also started her own

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company, Intelligent Access,
to take her invention

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of a wireless personal
captioning system to market.

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She serves as the
technical liaison between

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Georgia Tech and pediatric
hospitals around the

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world, including Children's
Health Care of Atlanta

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and Shriners Hospitals
being the main partners.

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She works closely with
clinicians to understand and

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identify problems that need
a solution to allow them

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to take better care of
their patients. She's an

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invited judge for many medical
device pitch competitions

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and serves on several
boards in the health care

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and technology arenas. So
please welcome Leanne West.

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Thanks for having
me here today.

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And is it going to
make terrible noises?

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I think I need to turn this

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one off. You did turn it off.

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All right.

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Okay, now you can hear
me and no feedback.

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Good.

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All right. So, like Mary
Beth said, I'm Leanne West.

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My whole role here at
Georgia Tech now is not as

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bringing in research for
me. I do it for everybody

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else on campus. And there's
lots of opportunities

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for both students and
faculty to work on pediatric

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projects. And I will
say they are always fun.

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So what I'm going to
talk about today is the

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new Shriners Research
Institute. And this is

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going to be with many
institutions across

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Atlanta, but particularly
Georgia Tech and Emory.

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So I wanted to give you a
little bit of background

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on what I do in pediatrics
in general. So with the

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Pediatric Innovation
Network, this is really the

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network we're talking about
when we talk about it.

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For all of these organizations,
they're all players

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in the healthcare innovation
ecosystem, particularly

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in pediatrics, and we
work with all of them.

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And they include things
like patient organizations,

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government organizations,

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professional societies,

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groups in Europe to do
the same things, and also

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everybody in the Atlanta
healthcare ecosystem like the

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Chamber, Georgia Life
Sciences, Georgia Research

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Alliance, et cetera. So we
try to work with everybody

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that we need to to help take
a technology from I created

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a prototype in my lab
now what do I do with it

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and so we use all of these
resources to help make things

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come out and be working
in the real world so

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Shriners Shriners has we've
been working with them since

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2018 yep 2018 we've had
about 25 projects with them

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through the years it's
totaled around five million

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and we've worked with
10 of their hospitals.

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So Shriners is an
interesting group.

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Children's Health Care
of Atlanta that we also

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work with is one center
here in Atlanta, and then

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they have a group over
at Grady and the Marcus

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Autism Center, but it's
all local to Atlanta.

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Shriners, on the
other hand, has 22

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hospitals across North
America, so 20 in

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the U.S., one in
Canada, one in Mexico.

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And then they have 127
sites, clinical sites

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worldwide. So we've
worked with 10 of

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their 20 here in the U
.S. And we've had a lot

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of publications, a
lot of presentations.

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The work has won
a lot of awards,

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which is also really exciting.

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We've had products
delivered that

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are in use at
Shriners right now.

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And of those, we actually
helped Shriners when they

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first came to us, these 22
hospitals were all running

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different electronic health
records programs. And so

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we helped get them all
on the same page, helped

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standardize their data, helped
get it into the cloud so that

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all of the data from these
22 hospitals could be

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looked at collectively as
opposed to individually. And

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that's going to be one of
the things that makes this

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relationship really unique
and really strong is that

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we have all of this data
from all of their hospitals.

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Other things, so we do, we
are having some projects

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led by Emory. It's
important to Shriners to

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include that medical school
group from Emory. And so

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we definitely do that as
we do all over campus.

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And let's see.

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All right. So again, I'm not
going to read all of these,

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but this is a list of the
projects that we've had

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with them. So you can see
some of the different types.

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Up top, you see the
kid with the things

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stuck all over his
body. Hold on, let's

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see if this is animated.
Oh, there you go.

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And instead of all of
those things hooked

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all over his body
to do a sleep study,

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we have a guy here at Georgia
Tech, Dr. Hong Yeo, and

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he built this flexible
wearable sensor that looks kind

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of like a Band-Aid. And from
that, it replaces all of

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these other wires that the
kid has connected all over

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him. And if you can imagine
trying to do a sleep study

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when you're completely
covered in wires at a hospital

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sleep study facility, it's
just not going to happen,

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right? I mean, it's terrible.
So this is something that

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can now be done at home.
And so Shriners is really

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interested in this to do
sleep studies with their kids.

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You can see this one, another

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really interesting
project, I think.

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This is using AI and x-rays

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and trying to see if you
can't quantify the curve

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of the patient's spine of
a child who has scoliosis.

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And right now, doctors
look at it. They do some

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measurement on the x-rays.
They calculate what these

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angles are, but everybody's
a little bit different

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and there's nothing
really standardized about

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it. So the thought is if
we can do it with AI and

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quantify those curves
specifically and consistently,

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then we're going to get
better results in the

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long term. So they're
really interested in that.

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You can see we've done lots in

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data informatics
and AI with them.

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The other categories
are clinical research,

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biologics, which
is really more like

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regenerative
medicine type things,

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genomics. We're going to
be doing a lot more in

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genomics. I'm super excited
about that. And I'll talk

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about that in a minute. And
then motion analysis. So

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genomics and emotional
analysis and AI are

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some of the main things
they want to look at

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and do. They have all
of this data from all

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of these patients and
they take a genomic sample

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from every single one
of their patients.

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And we think it's just
going to be hopefully a

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goldmine of information
that we can use our

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skill sets in AI to look
at and figure out ways to

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help them take better
care of their patients.

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But motion analytics, so
Shriners, if you don't

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know them and aren't familiar
with them, they really

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only look at kids with
orthopedic conditions,

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craniofacial differences,

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cleft palate and lip,

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and burns, and those
are the main things that

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they treat. So it's
kind of a narrow swath

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of what happens in
healthcare in general.

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These are some other
pictures. I'll talk about

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these. So the glove here
is kind of interesting.

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They have kids who are
missing limbs or pieces

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of their limbs. And so
if you have a prosthetic,

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you're not going to,
even if it's robotically

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controlled, you're not going
to know how hard you're

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gripping in that type of
thing or if something's hot.

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And so there's a lab
that's created this

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glove that sits
over the prosthetic.

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Eventually you can imagine
it could be built into it

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and the sensors there pick
up things like heat or

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pressure but then transmit it
to another part of the body

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so the the person with
the prosthetic can kind of

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feel what's happening and
they know what's happening.

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Let's see what else
we've got up there

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this guy so there's another
group on campus it does

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a lot of robotics and we
have a group who's been

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working on a robotic exoskeleton.
So for kids with cerebral

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palsy and Shriners treats
more kids with cerebral

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palsy than any other
hospital in the world, they

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have something called a crouched
gait. And so it's really

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hard for them to walk.
They can do it, but they

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usually do it with a walker.
It can be very tiring for

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them. And so what our guys
have built is an exoskeleton

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and it's come much
farther along since these

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days. This kid is also wearing
a harness, so that's not

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all part of the exoskeleton
the exoskeleton is on

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the leg but now it's like
this little dial that sits

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at the knee and one strap
above and one strap below so

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now it's much much tinier
and the idea with this one

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is can you give a little
robotic assist to someone

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who's trying to walk to get
their gait to be a little

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bit more normal so that
it's easier for them to do

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and maybe wouldn't be as
tiring for them especially

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if you're giving them a
little bit of a robotic

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assistance, they don't have
to put all of their efforts

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into taking those steps. And
then the other cool thing

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that they did is they
connected this to a video game.

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And so as the kid walks on
the treadmill, there are

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birds flying and balloons
that are set out in a good

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motion for a walking
pattern. And so as they walk

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on the treadmill, their
creature will pop all the

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balloons as it goes by so
they know that they're taking

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the steps correctly. And
so this is going to be used

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in some of the rehab that
Shriners is interested in.

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So we've also had
several Shriners

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meetings here, and we
go to them every year.

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So they call them
State of Science.

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And it's great because
they bring in clinicians

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from all of their hospitals
around North America.

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And we've been able to
interact with them and do

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projects with them. This is
how we've gotten integrated

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with them as being a
part of it. And you can

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see some of the teams
when they've come to visit

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Georgia Tech even. But also
there are always student

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opportunities to present
your research. And so

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definitely, definitely
pay attention because

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we would love to have
as many of you students

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participating in these
projects as possible.

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All right, so how this kind
of came about with the new

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research institute, and
this is what's so exciting.

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So like I said, we've had a
relationship with them since

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2018. We've done all these
projects, and they decided,

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in addition to our hospitals,
we want to do research.

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We want to set up a
research institute, and you

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know, they love Georgia Tech
from our past relationship,

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but they hired a firm to
go around and look and see

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where the best site to set
up this research institute

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would be. So we were up
against Duke and Vanderbilt.

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And so that was very
nerve wracking for me.

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And why did we do this? The
state was really involved.

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They took over the
relationship during this search

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part of what was happening.
and they realized that, you

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know, Shriners is this really
large, well-known, well

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-respected entity and they
wanted them here to do research

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with us to help expand what
we're doing in the state

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of Georgia and what we're
doing in Atlanta, at Emory,

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and at all of the other
institutions around Atlanta.

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And so we were really
excited. Shriners picked us

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because of the relationship
that we had established with

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them, the fact that we
already have a building in

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place that they're going
to be able to outfit and

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move into, and the fact
that we are number one in

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biomedical engineering research.
And so, that's a really

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exciting opportunity for
them, and it's an exciting

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opportunity for us. And again,
it's going to be Atlanta

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-wide. So, Kennesaw State's
going to be involved.

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Probably Georgia
State, probably UGA.

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The Shepherd Center has
some similar kids to

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them, so we're going to
get them involved as well.

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So again, kind of think
bigger than just us, which

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I think is also exciting
because we do the best

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things when we have the
most people involved.

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Oh, and this is another
thing I'll clarify, is

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that they're not going
to have patients here, So

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it's strictly going to
be research, no patients.

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So it's not competition
to a group like Children's

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Healthcare of Atlanta. It's
meant to be complimentary.

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So I don't know, has anyone

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been to Science Square yet?

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Okay, a couple of you. Is it

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the coolest building ever?

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Yeah, it is.

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So if you haven't been
over there, you should

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definitely find a reason
to go at some point.

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It's really awesome. It's
huge. It's the building

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you can see in the right
here and it has 13 floors

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to it. When Shriners comes
here, they're going to

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take up five of those
floors. It's going to be 150

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,000 square feet that they're
going to occupy and it's

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going to take about 12
to 18 months to build it

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out for them to be able
to move in. But as floors

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get finished, they're going
to start populating it.

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They are hiring a director
right now. In fact,

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I'm meeting with some
potential candidates next

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week, so super excited
to see that moving along.

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They're going to have 50
endowed chairs. And as

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students, you may not
necessarily know what

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an endowed chair is, but
if you're faculty, you're

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like, wow, that's a
lot and that's amazing.

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So they're going to
be recruiting people

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from all over the
country in their areas of

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interest to come here
and be a part of this

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research institute
and to work with us.

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They also have a genomics
institute. Like I said, they

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are taking samples from
all of their patients at

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every single one of their
facilities, including the

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127 clinics around the world.
And they're going to be

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taking their genomic center
that's currently in Tampa

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and moving it up here to
be in Science Square as

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well. That's going to happen
in late 2027, early 2028.

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And there are core facilities
at Georgia Tech that

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we're going to share with
them. So they're going to

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use some of ours, but they're
going to build some new

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ones and we're going to
be able to use some of

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theirs. So that's a nice
synergy as well across campus.

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So like I said, they're
going to focus on

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their patient population.
So cerebral palsy,

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scoliosis, cleft palate,
and burns. They really do

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more for kids with
scoliosis and cerebral palsy

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than any other, again,
hospitals almost combined.

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They have so many more
patients. And the other thing

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that's cool about Shriners,
if you don't know, is if

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you have one of their
conditions and you go to their

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hospitals and get treated
there, they don't charge

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you. So it's kind of like
St. Jude's in that respect.

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So you can go and get
the help that you need

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and you never have to
pay anything if you

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can't afford it. So I
love that about them too.

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But there are other

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musculoskeletal
conditions that they have,

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but these are two of
the largest populations.

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We're going to start with
funding in artificial

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intelligence, and that can
be applied to anything.

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So you think about the
genomics, AI can be

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applied there. You think
about the motion data that

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they have on their
patients, whether it's a

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video or images, it can
be applied there to learn

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things. The electronic
health records, they have

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decades of records with
these kids because some of

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them never even leave
Shriners, but they can go there

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up to age 20, 21. And
then if there's no adult

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doctor, they'll stay at
Shriners. So lots and lots of

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data to be looked at and
be analyzed. And I think

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this is going to tell us
really great things about

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the health of these kids
and how we can help them.

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The other thing that
Shriners is super interested

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in is not just saying, I
built this cool thing in the

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lab. They want it to be
in use in their hospital.

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So that's another really
important thing for them.

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Here are the topics that
they're most interested

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in. You can see I stole
these slides from Shriners.

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So biologics, I mean, again,
think about if a child

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has a burn, how could you
help them regrow skin, avoid

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scarring with all of the
surgeries these kids have,

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bone may be brittle or
it's broken or whatever.

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So there's a lot of things
you can imagine that

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you could do with
regenerative medicine, whether

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it's for bones or for skins
or for something else.

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artificial intelligence
again it kind of

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underlies everything
that they want to do

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with us and data informatics
again along those

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same lines but also
this encompasses the

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relationship we have with
them kind of getting their

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data structures in place
so that we can look at that

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data and that it's consistent
and clean and available

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as a group and not at
each individual hospital.

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So motion analysis,
again, they do a lot with

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assessing how a kid is
walking, moving, crawling,

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moving their arms. And
they have videos from so

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many different appointments.
They have images.

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They want to be able to
do motion analysis kind of

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out in the wild, if you will.
So maybe be able to take

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it to one of their centers,
say in Mexico, where

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they don't have the fancy
setup of a room with, you

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know, 15 cameras on the
ceiling looking from all angles

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at a kid who's got markers
all over their body.

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They would really just love
to be able to say, we've

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got one camera or two
cameras and we're looking at

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you moving and you don't
have markers on, but we want

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to be able to capture
clinically how well you're

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moving and say the angle
that your knee makes or your

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ankle makes. So that's
going to be one of the main

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goals is this mark, uh,
markless motion tracking, um,

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genomics laboratory.
We already talked about

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that again. They take a
sample from every single

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one of their patients
everywhere. So it's really

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the most diverse set of
genomic data, probably

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in the world again, and
then clinical research.

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So how can we help in
clinical research? Um,

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things like the, the sleep
apnea, um, bandage that

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I showed you instead of
all of those wires. That's

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going to make it better
for their patients when

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they're trying to do
these studies, and it's

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going to make it easier
for the clinicians as well.

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The other thing that's
kind of cool about what

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they're doing is sometimes
you hear like top down,

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the president says, I
want to do this, and

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that's what everybody
has to do, or bottoms up,

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which is kind of more how
a university works. If I

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have a cool idea, if I
can get funding for it,

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then those are the
research projects you're

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going to do. And so
they're kind of taking an

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approach that's a little
bit in the middle.

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Their goal is preeminence
and the understanding

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and treatment of the
kids that they serve.

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And then we're going to
go, though, to all the

20:33.550 --> 20:36.070
different hospitals and
talk to clinicians and say,

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if we wanted to be
preeminent in cerebral palsy

20:40.870 --> 20:42.730
research, what are all
the things that we would

20:42.730 --> 20:46.350
have to understand and
know to be able to do that?

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And so we're kind of
doing this meeting in the

20:49.070 --> 20:50.750
middle, if you will. And
I think that that's going

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to be really great too,
listening to both sides.

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We are going to engage with

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several of their
hospitals and clinics.

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And the other thing about
Science Square is there

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was another building
in the picture I showed

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earlier off to the right,
and that is an apartment

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complex. And so they're
going to lease some of

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the apartments so that they
can bring either children

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and families here to
stay, or their clinicians

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can come in town for say
a month or to and become

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really embedded and
integrated with the Georgia

21:21.970 --> 21:24.890
Tech campus and the
research that's going on.

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So for 2026, this is kind
of when everything is

21:31.630 --> 21:35.390
going to kick off. They've
leased the space in Science

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Square. They're visiting
it with architects and

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getting all the designs
done. But the research is

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really going to start in
2026. So in early 2026,

21:44.410 --> 21:47.210
we're going to have a call
for proposals. It's going

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to be about AI and using
that again and kind of any

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of the different things
that we've talked about.

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And they're going to put
a lot of money into that.

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So it'll be a great call.
I'm super excited for it.

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January 8th through
10th, mark your calendar

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because students
are welcome to come

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as well as faculty.
So tell your friends.

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They're going to have a
state of science event

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here at Shriners Square
and be able to show

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off the new space. And
what they will do, again,

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is bring clinicians from
all of their different

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hospitals together.
They're going to be

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talking about the research
that they're doing.

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We're going to have Georgia
Tech faculty talk about

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the research that we're
doing that's complementary.

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And then we also typically
have a poster session

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with prizes for students
from the Atlanta

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area. So we would love
to have Georgia Tech

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very well represented
in that poster session.

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And so one of the things
that they're going

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to do also is Shriners
has already picked

22:47.830 --> 22:50.210
two different projects
that they want to

22:50.310 --> 22:55.010
kind of keep up and
keep going in January.

22:55.310 --> 22:57.950
And one is a shoe insert.

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So we have a guy on campus,
actually Dr. Hong Yeo,

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that I mentioned earlier.
earlier he's created this shoe

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insert and right now it's
it's super flat so you

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would never know it was in
your shoe and it has pressure

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sensors all over it so
you can really tell the

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pressure when a person is
walking so you can kind of see

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are their ankles kind of
turned a little bit are they

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toe walking some of those
things that are of importance

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to Shriners but what we're
going to do is I sent

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it to Shriners I was like
hey I think this is something

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you'd be interested in
they're like definitely.

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And what we want to do is
have our people talk to

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their clinicians to understand
besides pressure, what

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else is there? What other
kind of sensor could we

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put in there to better quantify
how our kids are moving?

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And the idea is that right
now they have them come

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in the clinic. They might
just walk back and forth

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in front of a clinician.
There are pressure plates

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on the floor so they could
see how they're kind of

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moving a little bit. But
this would replace sets. You

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could actually even send
it home with a kid so that

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you know what's happening
when they're not standing

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right in front of you and
you're evaluating them.

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So we're going to get
them together. They're

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going to look at different
types of sensors like

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shear forces is apparently
another force that

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they're really interested
in getting. That is not

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something that's even
commercially available.

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So we're going to work
together and the goal is at the

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end of two years have
something that is deployed at

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children, at Shriners to be
in use by their clinicians.

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And so I'm really excited
about that because

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again, that's the
importance of going

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from the lab to actual
clinical practice.

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The next one, I showed you
the robotic exoskeleton.

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So that's going to be
worked on a little bit more

24:41.630 --> 24:44.050
for refinement, like battery
size, because right now

24:44.050 --> 24:47.410
they do have to carry a
battery pack on their back.

24:47.430 --> 24:51.070
And it's pretty big and
bulky. The team on campus

24:51.070 --> 24:55.190
used the replaceable
batteries from yard tools. Y

24:55.190 --> 24:56.810
'all probably don't do a
whole lot of yard work, but

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if you did, you would know
what I'm talking about.

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So we're going to get
the battery group here at

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Georgia Tech involved as
well. And they really love the

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game. And so we're going
to bring in a gaming group

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from iPad. Mary Beth, who
introduced me, her team is

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going to be the one looking
at the gaming element.

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And they're going to be
putting that all together,

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making sure that we're
capturing data that the

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clinicians want. We're
giving it to them in a form

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that makes sense to them
and tells them what they

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need to know. But we're
also going to make it as

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fun as possible for the
kids. So it's not just,

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hey, we're going to strap
you in a harness and now

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walk for 10 minutes for
us. Right. And we're going

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to take video of you while
you do it. So this is

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going to be able to kind of
combine those things, but

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make it a little bit more
fun for them. And they

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can really see in real time
how their gait is doing.

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And so again, it's kind of
that in two years, we want

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to see this in use in the
clinic in Shriner's. They

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have 14 motion labs in
those 22 hospitals that I

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mentioned. And so there's
going to be, you know, it's

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going to be used widely. So
really excited about that.

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And that's it. So I
realize I'm a little bit

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short, but I thought y
'all might have questions

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about some of the
things we're doing or

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want to do with
Shriners or questions in

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general. So feel free
to ask and don't be shy.

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Yeah.

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So they haven't really.
And that's another one of

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the things that we're doing
with them right now. So

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Dr. May Wong, if anyone
knows her she's been doing

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some AR VR interventions and
one is really cool so her

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group is also the group
doing the the calculating

26:44.030 --> 26:47.810
the spinal curvature so
they built this VR headset

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and you look this way and
it gives some information

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about the kid you look
this way and it gives the x

26:53.910 --> 26:57.370
-rays and curves and things
marked out you look straight

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ahead and they have a 3d
model built from an MRI

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of the kid that was
originally done so that they

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They can do surgical planning.
You can actually grab

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the spine and move it
around and look at it in 3D.

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So it's really cool. But
once people at Schreiner

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saw it, they were like, oh,
my gosh. The other thing

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that this can be used
for is with training

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patients in spinal surgery.
Because apparently right

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now you have to do 10
assisted spinal surgeries to

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be considered to be able
to do it yourself. And so

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that's a lot of operating
time. And also, you know,

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just the coordination of
having to be there for

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those 10 surgeries,
right? So if you can do it

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virtually, then that's
going to be a lot better for

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training and they can get
through training faster.

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And then the third thing
was, is they're like, oh, my

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gosh, I bet the kids would
love to see this and learn

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about what's going to happen
to them in spinal surgery

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and be able to see, you know,
what the doctor is seeing,

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what the doctor is talking
about. so just that one

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project in VR really kind of
took off and I think that's

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gonna be really exciting
too and then we have another

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one where a kid will sit
on a bench and the doctor

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will you have somebody
standing behind them and taking

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video and you have somebody
sitting next to them telling

28:17.090 --> 28:19.530
them what to do and this
is about arm motion and so

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they have them you know
rotate their arm and reach

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out here and reach over here
and someone watching it has

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to be like yeah they got
that direction pretty well.

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So May's group also built
a virtual reality game that

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has balls floating all
around you in a circular

28:35.510 --> 28:38.880
pattern. And so now the kids
can grab at the balls and

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they're doing everything
that this person wants them

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to do, all the movements.
But again, it's also way

28:45.050 --> 28:47.170
more fun than sitting there
and having someone be like,

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okay, now raise your left
arm and go to the left.

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So yes, virtual reality,
augmented reality is

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definitely going to be a part
of it. Another thing that

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they did is they took a
CT scan and if you have on

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that eye set you can lower
your hand and it goes down

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like cross sections of
the spine and then you can

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bring it back up and you
could stop at certain places

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to really see what's in
that CT layer by layer.

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So it's really cool.

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Any other questions?

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I just have a couple of other
professors who might want

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to talk with you because
the research is really

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adjacent. It might fit in
kind of perfectly. Can yeah

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absolutely and so yes if
you know teachers or other

29:26.330 --> 29:28.730
students who are interested
in these topics please please

29:28.730 --> 29:32.470
please have them come to me
you can reach out through

29:32.470 --> 29:36.810
iPad you can reach out to me
directly and we definitely

29:36.810 --> 29:40.490
want as many people involved
as possible any other

29:40.490 --> 29:51.530
questions yes ah yes good
questions. So every week my

29:51.530 --> 29:54.230
group, the Pediatric
Innovation Network, puts out an

29:54.230 --> 29:57.970
email and it has all the
opportunities with all the

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children's hospitals. So if
you want to sign up for our

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email newsletter, that is
where the calls and the

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activities with Shriners are
all going to be announced.

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Also the ones we have
with children's and other

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hospitals, an opportunity. So
please feel free to reach out

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and we can add you to that
email distribution list.

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Anything else?

30:21.150 --> 30:24.510
So you mentioned sort of
the state involvement in

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getting like this
relationship with Shriners and

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Georgia Tech. How fundamental
was that involvement

30:30.230 --> 30:32.750
from the state to actually
get Shriners to come to

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Georgia Tech? It was
really important. So when

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Shriners decided to do like
a formal process to figure

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out where they wanted to
put this, it was taken

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out of Georgia Tech's hands
and it was all given to

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the state. And that's
the only group that the

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search firm would talk to
is the state, and then the

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state could bring in people
as Shriners requested.

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So, they were very
fundamental. They did

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things that helped, like
different tax breaks,

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you know, assistance,

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like whatever. They gave
them a whole list of

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things that we would do
for them if they chose

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the state of Georgia and
Science Square as where

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they were going to be.
So I was, again, super

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happy that they picked
us over Vanderbilt and

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Duke because they're
also great universities.

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Yeah.

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You mentioned genomics.

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Can you talk a bit more
about the research and the

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projects that are currently
happening with them?

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Yeah.

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So with several of
their conditions, these

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are a lot of things
that kids are born

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with and they are due
to genetic anomalies.

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And so, for example,

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in scoliosis right now,
we're doing a study with

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them, and we're trying to
identify what genes are

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associated with what
different types of scoliosis.

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And we found all
the ones in the

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literature so far,
which is good.

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And we found a couple that
either haven't been in the

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literature or maybe a
mention in the literature. So

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I love that our AI on the
genomic data is matching

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what other people have found,
but going beyond it too.

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And then the goal
is really to say,

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okay, you have severe scoliosis,
you have these genetic

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mutations, so you fall
into this type of category,

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phenotype one,

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another kid's phenotype
two, phenotype three.

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So we want to be able to
define those phenotypes

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and then say, for this
type of kid, this type

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of surgery, this type
of treatment, this type

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of rehabilitation works
best for you, but it's

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going to look different
for the kid over here.

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So they're doing that with
scoliosis, and I think we're

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getting ready to start one
with cerebral palsy. It's

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the same kind of thing. There
are definitely different

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phenotypes of these kids,
and they have some phenotypes

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defined if you look it up,
but the idea is to say,

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you know, are there
subcategories or is there another

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phenotype that we need to
really be considering? and

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then looking at all that EHR
data and knowing the outcomes

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of the treatments and
surgeries they've had, what is

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working best for these kids.
So it's all about taking

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better care of their kids.
But it's, I mean, it's a

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really cool opportunity. It's
one of those things that,

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you know, since AI first
started being talked

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about in healthcare, it's
what has been said, you

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want to do this type
of thing. You want to

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phenotype and you want to
know what works, but nobody's

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really had all of the
data to do this. And

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now we're going to with
Shriners. So I think it's

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super exciting and I
think it's really going to

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help them in their goal
of being preeminent in

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research and treatment for
kids with cerebral palsy,

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scoliosis and other
conditions but I think it's

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also really going to help
put Georgia Tech on the

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map for being able to do
all of these things that

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a lot of people have talked
about for a long time.

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I think one thing, one
of the biggest concerns

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AI in healthcare
is HIPAA violations

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so how do you guys
navigate that challenge?

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Yep. So Shriners gives
us de-identified data.

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And then if you think about
genomics, though, that's

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kind of inherently
identified specifically to

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you, right? And so that's
one of those things that

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is really being talked
about in the healthcare

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industry because you can't
de-identify it, but you

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want to do the research
because you want to help

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these kids. So a lot of
times the patients will be

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asked and told that, you
know, we're going to take

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this sample from you.
We're going to use it in

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research so we can take
better care of kids like you.

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And most patients do it.
So I'm a rare disease

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patient myself. And
I'm like, please take

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everything in mind,
because if you can help

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somebody else not have
what I have or better

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treat what I have,
I'm all for it. Right.

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And you'll find that
a lot in pediatric

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research, more so than
even in adult medicine.

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People just want to do
the right thing for kids.

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so we definitely follow all
HIPAA rules and regulations

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for the other electronic
health record data.

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Genomics is kind of
a gray area but a lot

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of people agree to
it because it's going

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to make a huge difference
for other kids.

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Yeah anyone else?

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All right last call.

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Okay we're good thank you.
