Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is a Harvard teaching hospital that treats more than 700,000 patients every year. BIDMC is committed to medical research. The oldest clinical research laboratory in the country, the Harvard-Thorndike Laboratory, is located at BIDMC.

As part of its mission to support innovative clinical research, BIDMC became a member of the CIMIT consortium in 2003. BIDMC’s strengths in cardiology and neuroscience have been especially critical to CIMIT projects in predicting and preventing cardiac infarction and efforts to develop devices that control and prevent epileptic seizures.

Recent CIMIT-Funded Projects Awarded to BIDMC Investigators

YEAR	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR	PROJECT TITLE	PROGRAM AREA
2012	Kumar, Sandeep	Non-invasive Brain Stimulation for Improving Stroke Related Dysphagia	NeuroHealth
2012	Pang, Trudy	Development of a Stat EEG Prototype for Rapid Diagnosis of Non-convulsive Status Epilepticus for Community Hospital Settings	Integrated Clinical Environments
2012	Horng, Steven	Developing and Validating an Integrated Intelligent Sepsis Monitoring System	Integrated Clinical Environments
2011	Gray, James	Using network analysis to improve the qualities of NICU care teams and their function	Clinical Systems Innovation / Integrated Clinical Environment
2011	Hauser, Carl	A Rapid PCR-Based, Point of Care Test To Discriminate Between Sterile and Infective SIRS	Biodetection & Sepsis Control
2011	Pascual-Leone, Alvaro	Noninvasive, Physiologic Characterization of Cortical Plasticity After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Humans-392	Traumatic Brain Injury / NeuroHealth
2011	Pollock, Nira	Development of a Novel Paper-based Point-of-care Test for Liver Function	Global Health Initiative
2011	Subramaniam, Balachundhar	Echocardiography guided central oximetry-198	Optical Diagnostics
2010	Otterbein, Leo, PhD	Inhalation of medicinal gases targeting new pathways for the treatment of sepsis	Biodetection & Sepsis Control
2010	Dierks, Meghan, MD	Reshaping systems, processes and controls to optimize outcomes in sepsis	Clinical Systems Innovation
2010	Fregni, Felipe, MD, PhD, MPH	Closed loop, detect-and-treat systems for epilepsy	Neurotechnology
2009	Fregni, Felipe, MD, PhD	The Effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Combined with Arm Training Using Glove-ArMEO Robotic Device on Motor Recovery in Traumatic Brain Injury Survivors	Image Guided Therapy
2009	Lim, Chun, MD, PhD	Augmented Reality Glasses for the Treatment of Visuospatial Neglect	Neurotechnology
2009	Pascual-Leone, Alvaro, MD, PhD	Near-Infrared Photobiostimulation as a Means of Neuromodulation in Stroke	Neurotechnology
2009	Schlaug, Gottfried, MD, PhD	TDCS - Stroke Recovery	Neurotechnology
2008	Verrier, Richard L., MD	Development and Clinical Database Testing of Automated ECG Heterogeneity Analyzer for Real-Time Assessment of Risk for Lethal Arrhythmia	Cardiovascular Disease
2008	Thomas, Robert Joseph, MD	Cervical Direct Current Carotid Body Stimulation: Preliminary evaluation of a novel method to modulate carotid chemoreflex function for treatment of central and complex sleep apnea	Neurotechnology
2008	Fregni, Felipe, MD, PhD	Anticonvulsive and Antiepileptic Properties of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in an Animal Seizure Model	Neurotechnology
2008	Rutkove, Seward, MD	Refinement and Application of an Electrical Impedance Probe for Neuromuscular Assessment	Neurotechnology