UM: Health

Newsweek publishes a Q&A with Timir Baman, a cardiac fellow at the UM Hospital and part of Project My Heart-Your Heart, which is partnering with local funeral homes to extract pacemakers to be sterilized and reused in the Philippines, Ghana, Nicaragua and Vietnam. Says Baman: “Our ultimate goal is to create a reproducible model that can be utilized at other academic institutions. We hope to lay the groundwork and show other institutions that a pacemaker reutilization program can be established. We hope to meet with the FDA this summer and create a clinical trial so that we can study the efficacy of device donation to Third World countries on a large-scale basis.” [Source]