Dr. Roger Dias, Director of Research and Innovation at STRATUS, continues to propel his research forward with two new grants for the Human Factors and Cognitive Engineering Lab at STRATUS. These grants fund projects in applied artificial intelligence in health care, supporting the goal of the STRATUS research lab to improve clinical performance and patient safety.
Dr. Dias received a $2.1 M R01 grant from the NIH-NHLBI for his project “A Robot-Assisted Perfusion System to Improve Patient Safety in the Cardiac Operating Room.” This project aims to create an AI-based robotic system that can be integrated into the cardiac surgery workflow as a non-human teammate. This research is a collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Dias is the PI along with Dr. Matthew Gombolay (Georgia Tech).
Dr. Dias also received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), from the “Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science” program. This project, titled “An AI Coach to Enhance Surgical Teamwork in the Cardiac Operating Room”, seeks to produce an AI coaching system to improve collaboration within surgical teams. The project will be led by researchers from Rice University and includes investigators from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the VA Boston Healthcare System.
Congratulations to Dr. Dias on these fantastic achievements!