Some of the best ideas come when the mind can wander, process new knowledge, and connect dots that don’t obviously seem to belong together.
For computer scientist and engineer Gregory Welch, the AdventHealth Endowed Chair in Healthcare Simulation in the UCF College of Nursing and Pegasus Professor, some of his biggest “aha” moments occur at times of reflection, especially while riding his bicycle along Central Florida’s Bike Trail.
For Francisco Guido-Sanz, an assistant professor of nursing and member of the National Disaster Medical System Trauma Critical Care Team, practical experience and collaboration with others is the way to get an idea to the place where it can make a difference with patients.
From an app that allows family members to “touch” patients isolated when being treated for COVID to a wound simulator to improve health care training, UCF Today shares some of their patented innovations.
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