42 min
Emory Innovators with Sharron Close, PhD, MS, CPNP-PC, FAAN Emory Innovators
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Emory Innovators, brought to you by The Hatchery, Emory Center for Innovation, showcases conversations with Emory faculty, staff, and alumni who work in innovation and entrepreneurship, or have taken innovative approaches to design their careers and disrupting their industries. Join us from 1-2pm EST on Thursday, September 23, to speak with Sharron Close, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University.
Dr. Close's clinical research is focused on pediatric primary care, developmental pediatrics, management of chronic conditions of genetic origin, and variations of sex chromosome aneuploidy. Dr. Close is a hands-on practitioner of innovation, who has prototyped many products for improving health care, including a human-mimetic cuddling device to simulate warmth and touch for hospitalized infants and children known as Cuddle Care, a biologic-based automotive device to prevent hot car deaths known as CoALA (Carbon Dioxide-Assisted Life Alert), Cool-care, a silicone-based itch and pain relief device to deliver cutaneous symptom relief, FemCare, an external urinary catheter device intended to reduce the need for indwelling urinary catheters that are associated with catheter-associated urinary tract infections, and Testo Gel-dot, an absorbable polymer patch designed to deliver transcutaneous testosterone for androgen-deficient patients.
She is a board-certified pediatric nurse practitioner with a BS, MS and PhD from Columbia University School of Nursing in New York. She is a Fellow in the New York Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Close teaches pediatric primary care in the School of Nursing and practices in the School of Medicine Department of Human Genetics.
Emory Innovators, brought to you by The Hatchery, Emory Center for Innovation, showcases conversations with Emory faculty, staff, and alumni who work in innovation and entrepreneurship, or have taken innovative approaches to design their careers and disrupting their industries. Join us from 1-2pm EST on Thursday, September 23, to speak with Sharron Close, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University.
Dr. Close's clinical research is focused on pediatric primary care, developmental pediatrics, management of chronic conditions of genetic origin, and variations of sex chromosome aneuploidy. Dr. Close is a hands-on practitioner of innovation, who has prototyped many products for improving health care, including a human-mimetic cuddling device to simulate warmth and touch for hospitalized infants and children known as Cuddle Care, a biologic-based automotive device to prevent hot car deaths known as CoALA (Carbon Dioxide-Assisted Life Alert), Cool-care, a silicone-based itch and pain relief device to deliver cutaneous symptom relief, FemCare, an external urinary catheter device intended to reduce the need for indwelling urinary catheters that are associated with catheter-associated urinary tract infections, and Testo Gel-dot, an absorbable polymer patch designed to deliver transcutaneous testosterone for androgen-deficient patients.
She is a board-certified pediatric nurse practitioner with a BS, MS and PhD from Columbia University School of Nursing in New York. She is a Fellow in the New York Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Close teaches pediatric primary care in the School of Nursing and practices in the School of Medicine Department of Human Genetics.
42 min