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Health care applications

Faculty collaborator in this area is Prof Santosh Noronha from Chemical Engineering (and also the Tata Centre) at IIT Bombay.

Kidney exchange: An area that we have tried to contribute to is in Kidney Exchange Mechanisms of different kinds, to facilitate transplants between eligible donors and recipients.   Current work in this area is through the doctoral work of student Utkarsh Verma. This work is part of an ongoing collaboration with Dr Viswanath Billa and Dr Deepa Usulumarty from Apex Kidney Care, representing a group of nephrologists in Mumbai who are doing very interesting work in this area. 

A workshop on this topic was organized at IIT Bombay on 15 January, attended by many nephrologists, health sector administrators and academics.  Some more details are here.

Decision models in Health Care: Aspects of decision making in health care are being explored through the doctoral work of Manoj Kumar.  This includes the optimal location of fistulas for dialysis, the choice of intra-operative ultra sound imaging adjuncts during brain cancer surgery and the analysis of pulse waveform data to extract valid subsections of such data sets.

Dialysis management: A short description of a dialysis management system during the Covid-19 pandemic is here, describing the effort as of August 2020.  It was published in the newsletter of the German OR society.

Other aspects of treatment of kidney disease continue being studied in the doctoral work of Sachin Bodke.

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