UTMB Health MakerHealth Space
World Maker Faire 2017
MAKERS
David Marshall
David Marshall serves as the Chief Nursing Officer for the University of Texas Medical Branch Health System. He is credited with bringing the MakerHealth Space to UTMB Health in collaboration with MakerNurse and MakerHealth.
Ben Nguyen
Ben is a Vascular Technician in UTMB's Vascular Lab. His expertise in the MakerHealth Space includes 3D printing patient data, mold making and sewing. In addition to medical device prototyping, Ben is also active in the Houston cosplay community.
Rachel Murphy
Rachel is an RN and Clinical Operations Administrator at UTMB. Her projects in the UTMB MakerHealth Space use the laser cutter, plastic bender and rapid prototyping station.
Meredith Hartzog
Meredith is a Nurse Clinician at UTMB and active #MakerNurse leading prototyping projects across the hospital!
In September 2015, UTMB Health was the first medical center in the country to establish a makerspace in a hospital. UTMB's MakerHealth Space allows nurses, doctors, researchers, students, and staff members the ability to prototype and solve problems.
What inspired you to make this project?:
Quoted from David Marshall's article in Nursing Journal (http://www.nurseleader.com/article/S1541-4612(16)30223-3/abstract):
"Despite the onslaught of technology within health care, the need for nurse innovation continues in today's practice environment. Nurses fabricate solutions to everyday problems to increase safety, comfort, and efficiency of care; however, this ingenuity goes largely unsupported without space, time, and materials to bring practical solutions to everyday problems to fruition. Likewise, nursing as a field has departed from valuing everyday innovation in the pursuit of nursing research that follows the traditions of the scientific method."
