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INNOVATION
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ogies. Clinicians from around the world come to Colorado to
learn at the CSI alongside UC medical students.
In Pittsburgh, UPMC Enterprises is the health system's innova-
tion arm. Formerly called the UPMC Technology Development
Center, UPMC Enterprises features a team of more than 200
technology professionals offering clinical, technical, business and
capital resources to develop, test and commercialize new health-
care products and services. Rasu Shrestha, MD, CIO of UPMC,
also serves as president of UPMC Enterprises.
e commercialization and technology transfer arm of Win-
ston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center,
Wake Forest Innovations, seeks to transform ideas and inven-
tions into proprietary technologies and inventions to improve
healthcare. e organization offers industry relations and
business development, product innovation services, and contract
research and development services. Eric Tomlinson, PhD, CIO
of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, leads the Wake Forest
Innovation Quarter, a hub for biomedical science and IT within
Wake Forest Innovations.
Note: Innovation centers are presented in alphabetical order. is
is not an exhaustive list of all innovation centers. Centers were
selected by editorial research. Hospitals cannot pay to be included
on this list. n
The Center for Surgical Innovation at University of Colorado
Hospital offers multidisciplinary educational and training
courses for surgeons, residents and medical students from
around the world.
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