Co-Leaders: Najim Dehak, PhD, and Vadim Zipunnikov, PhD
The Technological Assessment and Solutions Core (Resource Core 4 or RC4) aims:
To provide state-of-the-art engineering and technology application expertise to facilitate and support a broad array of translational frailty research. Direct access to core leaders, internal consultants, and a broad collaborative network in the schools of Engineering and Public Health facilitates technology utilization and optimize study design. Assistance and training needed by each supported investigator is provided.
To provide access to relevant technologies, and the necessary infrastructure to study frailty. The core provides a wide array of tools needed for the development of engineering and AI approaches to frailty measurement in a comprehensive measurement suite, and through affiliated relevant engineering programs across JHU. Core-supported functions offer easy access to engineering and AI-related programs in EMDH, natural language processing, computer vision, robotics, accelerometers, global positioning systems (GPS), heart rate monitors/cardiac patches (ECG), and relevant evolving technologies.
To facilitate the translation of RC4 frailty-related and focused technologies and uses of AI into intervention- or prevention-focused clinical studies in collaboration with the leadership of other resource cores. This aim focuses on the implementation of new ideas into translational projects.
To provide training, mentorship, and guidance to a diverse group of the most promising junior investigators who can contribute to frailty research, and to assure that RC4-developed technologies are accessible to underserved populations of older adults. RC4 leaders work with OAIC leaders to assure that available technology is designed with underserved populations of older adults in mind, and when feasible, specifically target urban and rural areas for technology development.
To provide access to business development, as relevant, and to local and national visibility for RC4-related science and activities. This aim seeks to bring successful technology developments to the marketplace and seeks to highlight the accomplishments of RC4-supported investigators in the fields of aging and technology, nationally and internationally.