and chief of inpatient and critical care pediatrics at The University of Vermont Children's Hospital.
The two have known each other for 26 years, crossing paths as young pediatricians and then as co-workers at the University of Vermont Medical center.
Finette decided on a major diversion from his work at UVM Medical center as a researcher and in the emergency room critical care unit for children."
The health care worker measures the circumference of the child's upper arm.""The more malnourished they are,
"There are typically many more community health care workers. Finette couldn't train 500 new doctors, but he could arm 500 community health care workers with a tool that would make them the next best thing to a doctor."
"So that's where I came up with this idea of developing this medical intelligence platform anybody can be trained to use,
Finette found that many health care workers were ill-equipped to accurately determine those vital signs. Many of the workers, for example, don't have watches.
"Although this application is ordained to have impact in resource-poor areas of the world without access to quality health care
or health care at all, there's application in middle and upper income countries for a similar version of the platform,
"We're simply handing these to a preexisting workforce of health care volunteers who are already in place
"Yes, we want to provide appropriate health care to children who need it.""Contact Dan D'Ambrosio at 660-1841 or ddambrosio@freepressmedia. com. Follow him on Twitter at www. twitter. com/Dandambrosiovt.
Dr. Jill Ostrem, a neurologist at the University of California San francisco Medical center, commented t totally novel.
And Juno partner, Seattle Children Hospital, has started just a Phase 1 CAR-T trial for children with neuroblastoma,
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