cheryl merritt - telemedicine and advanced technology research

U.S. AU.S. ARMYRMY M MEDICALEDICAL R RESEARCH ESEARCH & M& MATERIELATERIEL C COMMANDOMMAND

Fulfilling The Vision Thru R&D

Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Cutting Edge Medical Technology

Deputy for Advanced Technologies

Colonel (Dr) Jeffrey Roller, MC, USAFDirector, Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)

Ms. Cheryl MerrittChief, Program IntegrationIPA, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Medical Biological Defense• Vaccines/therapies• Field-portable diagnostic

systems• Medical readiness• Biotechnology

Military Infectious Diseases• Medical readiness• Vaccines• Biotechnology• Prophylaxis/treatment drugs• Diagnostics/prognostics• Vector control

Combat Casualty Care• Lightweight medical

equipment• Medical C4ISR• Trauma care• Health monitoring and

diagnostic technology

Military Operational Medicine• Soldier selection

and sustainment • Soldier performance• Warrior system modeling• Health hazards protection• Diagnostics/prognostics• Health monitoring

Medical Chemical Defense• Medical management of

chemical warfare casualties

• Medical readiness• Drug prophylaxes/

pretreatments• Diagnostics/therapeutics

Combat Casualty Care

9%

Military Infectious Diseases

28%

Military Operational

Medicine10%

MedicalBiologicalDefense

37%

MedicalChemicalDefense

16%

U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel CommandCore Medical S&T Program Areas

$1.5bn

Congressional Special InterestRDT&E $268M

Office of the Surgeon GeneralArmy Telemedicine (RFS)$4.8M

SBIR/STTR Small BusinessInnovative Research/SmallBusiness Technology Transfer$2.5MOperational Telemedicine$1.4M

DARPA Programs (VirtualSoldier, Trauma Pod, VirtualAutopsy $8.4M

High Performance ComputingPerformance Software Insitute$1.2M

Bioinformatics (RADcontribution) .6M

Reimbursables $1.6M

TATRC Funding

FY 2005 Total $289M

PRESIDENT’S BUDGET DUE TO CONGRESS(1st Tuesday in February)

HOUSE BUDGETCOMMITTEE

SENATE BUDGETCOMMITTEE

SENATE APPROPRIATIONSCOMMITTEE

HOUSE APPROPRIATIONSCOMMITTEE

10 SUBCOMMITTEES

Hearings

Subcommittee Markup

House Floor

House Rules Committee

Full Committee Markup

12 SUBCOMMITTEES

Hearings

Refer to Senate

Subcommittee Markup

Request ConferenceAppoint Conferees

Senate Floor

Full Committee Markup

HearingsCommittee Markup

Pass ResolutionConference

Discretionary Spending Caps(602(a) Allocation

Agree to ConferenceAppoint Conferees

Conference

House and Senate PassConference Report

Send to Presidentfor Signature

Appropriations Process

OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP

Congress Begins New Session

Budget Due to Congress (First Tuesday in February)

House Hearings

House Mark-Up

Bill Signed

OCLL Validates Intent

Develop White Paper

Work w/Congressional Staff

Conference

LEGISLATIVE TIMELINE

* Timeframes Approximate Windows

Senate Hearings

Senate Mark-Up

Bill Signed

Funding Released

Triple Helix R&D Strategies

Link to the WarfighterNew Ideas, Knowledge

High Risk, High Payoff

Innovation, Transition

Academia + Government + Industry(Maximum Bang for Buck)

Service Labs

Academia

DARPA

Industry

Expanded Resource Base

International Coalitions

Stryker Brigade – Deployed Forces

Interagency Partners

INTERACTIONS WITHIN MRMC

• LEVERAGE COMMAND EXPERTISE:

– IPTs: Integrated Product Teams

– PLRs: Product Line Reviews

– IRTs: Integrated Research Teams

• SUPPORT COMMAND MISSIONS– SUPPORT TO RADS:

• TAM: Task Area Manager (CCC) MSTI: Medical Simulation Training Initiative

– SUPPORT TO LABS:• ISR• WRAIR• AFRIMS, ETC

– SUPPORT TO ACQUISITON/LOGISTICS

• Logistics IRT

Interactions with Military/Federal Complex

* Distributed, Synchronized Databases

* Advanced, Adaptive Multilevel Security

* Data Mining of Disparate Databases

* Secure Global Positioning System

* Network Management Tools

* Info Warfare Surveillance & Defense Tools

* EMI/Radiology

* Fault Avoidance and Recovery Systems

* Hands Free, Wireless Telecom

* Wireless Networking

* Data Compression

* High Bandwidth Datalinks

* Multi-platform, Interoperable Software

* Complex Modeling and Simulation

• U.S. Army Research Laboratory

• USUHS

• AFIP

• U.S. Army, Signal Battle Laboratory

• Food and Drug Administration

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• Veterans Administration

• NASA

• DARPA

• National Library of Medicine (NIH)

• Agency for Health Research & Quality (HHS)

• ONR/NHRC

• AFMESA

• USMC Warfighting Lab

• DCDD/AMEDD C&S

Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center Cutting Edge Medical Technology

Interactions with Academia • U of Michigan (Virtual Soldier, Affliiates Prgrams)

• Georgetown University (CA-Medical Vangaurd)

• Harvard University (CA-CIMIT)

• Mass Institute of Technology (CA-CIMIT)

• University of Maryland (IPA/CA – ORF)

• University of Utah (Contract-Teleopth)

• Rutgers University (CA-CEMBR)

• Saint Francis University (CRDA-CERMUSA)

• Drexel University (CA-CIMERC)

• Loma Linda University (CA-NMTB/Proton Beam)

• University of Tex - Houston HSC (CA-DREAMS)

• University South Florida (CA-Telerad/Adv Cancer Detect)

• University of Hawaii (CA-Telemed Curric’lm)

• University of Pittsburgh (Contract-GGTS)

• Stanford University (Contract-Affiliates Prog)

• Texas A & M (CA-DREAMS)

• Johns Hopkins University (CA-Periscopic MIS)

• University of Oregon (CA-BBM)

• Columbia University (CRDA)

• Northwestern University (Grant, Affiliates Program)

• UCLA (CA-CASIT, Affiliates Program)


The TATRC Technology Transfer Imperative

• Patent and Trademark Law Amendment Act (Bayh-Dole Act) of

1980

– Option to retain rights to inventions

• Must disclose invention to government (within 2 months)

• Must file patent

• Must pursue commercialization

• Must give preference to small business for licensing

• Must ensure products manufactured in US

• Must provide government a “non-exclusive, non-transferrable, irrevocable paid-

up license” to use federally funded inventions.

Interactions with Industry• GE• General Dynamics• Boeing• Simbionix• Intuitive Surgical• MD Robotics• Visual Pathways• Vecna


TATRC Product Line Portfolios

Medical Modeling

& Simulation

DR MOSES

Robotics & Artificial

Intelligence

DR GILBERT

Advanced Imaging

DR MOGEL

Advanced Surgical

Technology

DR MOSES

Medical Skills Proficiency

Advanced Distributed

Learning

DR PUGH

Nano-Medicine

& Biomaterials

DR GILBERT

Cellular &

Molecular Biology

DR CURLEY

Therapeutic

& Clinical Technology

DR SAIKI

Clinical Tele-

Medicine

LTC PAK

Bio-Surveillance

MR MARTIN

IM/IT/

Informatics

LTC PAK

Mobile Medical

Technology

MR MORRIS

Bio-InformaticsOcular Health

COL WARD

TATRC Supporting Business Processes– Integrated Product Team (IPT)

•Project level •More frequent, scheduled•Project-specific guidance

– Product Line Review (PLR)•Assessments of research by outside

experts•One research category per month;

annual cycle

Questions?

[email protected]

301 619-7929