The 43^rd Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine is April 6-9, in Baltimore. With the meeting theme “The Urgency of Adaptation,” the 2022 conference seeks to showcase opportunities for behavioral medicine to increase its effect on the climate crisis, systemic racism, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Embedded in the clinical practice, the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery drives practice transformation at Mayo Clinic. Multidisciplinary teams lead projects and programs across critical intersections of health and health care, including technology, community and population health, disparities and routes to equity.

At #SBM2022, Mayo Clinic is on site at booth #3, offering opportunities to learn more about our research and related career opportunities.

Here are all the other places you can hear from Mayo Clinic experts during #SBM2022, or see the results of collaborations near and far:

Thursday, April 7

The 2022 Society of Behavioral Medicine Achievement awards will be celebrated during the Presidential Keynote at 4 p.m. We are proud to note that Lila Rutten, Ph.D., is the recipient of the Elliot J. Coups Improving Health Through Behavioral Medicine award.

This award was established by the Society of Behavioral Medicine to acknowledge contributions to any phase of translational work, in line with the work Elliot J. Coups, Ph.D., did to address skin cancer prevention. Dr. Coups passed away July 21, 2020.

9 a.m. — Symposium 7: Leveraging mHealth to Address Cardiovascular Health in Underserved Populations

This symposium features research from four experts in cardiovascular disease risk prevention and intervention.

Mayo Clinic's presenter: LaPrincess Brewer, M.D.

Paper: Community-based, cluster-randomized pilot trial of a cardiovascular mHealth intervention among African Americans: Rationale, design, and baseline findings of the FAITH! Trial

Dr. Brewer's discussion features the results from a pilot trial of an application-based intervention designed to address physical and behavioral risk factors for cardiovascular disease among African Americans.

11 a.m. — Poster session B

• B253 - Development and proof-of-concept testing of the Diabetes Homeless Medication Support (D-Homes) program

Presenter: Katherine Vickery, M.D., Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis

Mayo Clinic co-author: Victor Montori, M.D.

Several other institutions are represented among the co-authors.

• B277 - Design Features for Long Term Weight Loss Maintenance: User Experiences and Preferences from the eCHANGE Pilot Trial

Presenter: Rikke Aune Asbjørnsen, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Vestfold, Norway

Mayo Clinic co-author: Matthew M. Clark, PhD., L.P.

Several other Norwegian institutions are represented among the co-authors, along with the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands.

• B318 - Adapting crowdsourced data of workplace inequities to influence organizational change: The Mayo Clinic Get Real Project

Presenter: Gladys Asiedu, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic

All co-authors are from Mayo Clinic: Lorrie Blanchfield, Renaldo Blocker, Ph.D., Kevin Hovde, Ajay Jayakumar, Shavogne Morgan, Kristin Pavek, Kristi  Sorensen, Nasibeh Zanjirani Farahani, Ph.D.

1:20 p.m. — Paper Session 8: Pain

Short-term efficacy findings from a randomized controlled trial with EPIO – a digital pain self-management program

Presenter: Katrine Bostrøm, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Mayo Clinic co-author: Eleshia Morrison, Ph.D., L.P.

Several other American and Norwegian institutions are represented among the co-authors, as well as the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands.

Friday, April 8

11 a.m. — Poster session D

• D652 - The effect of COVID on racial disparities in perceived doctor-patient communication quality

Presenter: Sean Phelan, Ph.D.

All co-authors are from Mayo Clinic: Monica Albertie, Megan Allyse, Ph.D., Amelia Barwise, M.B., B.CH., B.A.O., Ph.D., Sarah Batbold, Kristin Clift, Jason Egginton, Lily Huang (also affiliated with Rutgers University), Matt Johnson, Laura Pacheco-Spann.

1:30 p.m. — Paper Session 20: Cancer

Integrative and Digital Health for Cancer: Providing Digital Stress-Management for Cancer Survivors; A 12-months Randomized Controlled Trial with StressProffen

Presenter: Elin Børøsund, Ph.D., Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Mayo Clinic co-authors: Shawna Ehlers, Ph.D., L.P., Matthew M. Clark, PhD., L.P.

In addition to Oslo University Hospital, other co-authors are from the University of Kentucky and Oslo Metropolitan University.

2 p.m. — Panel 18: Dissemination and Implementation

We Can Build the Tools, but Who Will Sustain Them? Challenges and Opportunities When Implementing Digital Health Interventions

Chair: Carly Goldstein, Ph.D., The Miriam Hospital/Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Panelists:

• J. Graham Thomas, Ph.D., The Miriam Hospital/Alpert Medical School of Brown University
• LaPrincess Brewer, M.D., Mayo Clinic
• Andrea Graham, Ph.D., Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago

The three panelists are each conducting digital health intervention clinical trials funded by the National Institutes of Health. After presenting their individual implementation projects, they will participate in a discussion addressing:

• How do we successfully hand-off technologies to community partners for sustained implementation?
• How can co-design and stakeholder-centered methods promote success?
• How can sustainable digital health intervention implementation bridge the “digital divide” to promote more equitable access to behavioral health tools for all?
• How should “already-developed” digital health interventions be adapted for implementation, and what optimizes their sustainment?

5 p.m. — Poster Session E

• E763 - Relationship Quality is Associated with Gut Microbial Composition in Older Adult Couples

Presenter: Shelby Langer, Ph.D., Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Mayo Clinic co-author: John DiBaise, M.D.

Other co-authors are from Arizona State University.

• E834 - Tendon Transfers: Improving Patient Outcomes and Recovery Through an Interprofessional Education Activity

Presenter: James Morgante, Ph.D., AO North America, Wayne, Pennsylvania

Mayo Clinic co-author: Marco Rizzo, M.D.

Other co-authors are from Tufts Medical Center, Advanced Clinical Education Inc., and Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital.

• E841 - Promoting safe and supportive clinical spaces for youth experiencing racism: a community-based participatory approach.

Presenter: Gladys Asiedu, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic

Other Mayo Clinic co-authors: Sarah Atunah-Jay, M.D., Supriya Behl, Bridget Biggs, Ph.D., L.P., Emily McTate, Ph.D., L.P., Ahmed (Shafii) Mohamed, M.D., Sean Phelan, Ph.D., Manisha Salinas, Dr.P.H., Mark Wieland, M.D.

Additional co-author: Ashaunta Anderson, M.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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PHOENIX — Mayo Clinic has acquired 228 acres of land adjacent to its campus in North Phoenix, securing the ability to expand its patient-centered model of care and paving the way to develop a transformative biotechnology corridor.

The L-shaped parcel wraps around the existing Mayo Clinic Hospital campus and the Arizona State University Health Futures Center. The parcel extends from 56^th Street to 64^th Street, south of State Route 101. It was purchased from the Arizona State Land Department at public auction on Dec. 15.

Developing this area of North Phoenix to support Mayo Clinic’s strategic vision and the “Discovery Oasis” biotechnology corridor has been a long-standing goal of Mayo Clinic, the City of Phoenix, the State of Arizona and Arizona State University. The concept furthers Mayo’s mission of addressing humanity’s most serious and complex medical challenges while fueling local and state economic growth. Biotechnology collaborators will be invited to co-locate in what is expected to become a dynamic corridor for advancing novel medical and health care solutions.

“Leading in the transformation of health care on behalf of patients everywhere is central to Mayo Clinic’s strategy. We believe the acquisition of this land is one of these opportunities, giving us a new canvas to co-create with innovators in science and biotechnology,” said Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., CEO for Mayo Clinic.

“Mayo Clinic will use a portion of the land for continued expansion of our Phoenix campus and our patient-centered model of care,” said Richard Gray, M.D., CEO for Mayo Clinic in Arizona. “But we also have a new opportunity to vision a biotech corridor, anchored by Mayo Clinic, where we invite collaborators to join us in pushing past the existing boundaries in medicine and health care. Discovery Oasis will be fertile ground in the desert, where new ideas can move rapidly from science to patient care solutions to biomanufacturing and broad application.”

Mayo Clinic’s purchase of the site for $139 million will benefit Arizona State Land Department beneficiaries [land.az.gov], including state K-12 education. This commitment to education will be extended by land use that enriches the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, The Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science and the Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University Alliance for Health Care.

Mayo Clinic in Arizona is in the process of adding 1.6 million square feet to the Phoenix hospital campus as part of the “Arizona. Bold. Forward.” project — one of the largest capital expansions in the history of Mayo Clinic. By the close of 2023, through the generous support of benefactor funding, nearly 100 new patient beds will be added, as well as outpatient, education and research spaces. Plans call for adding 100 more patient beds by 2030.

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The work to improve health and health care is ongoing and ever-evolving. It takes many shapes, from streamlining delivery to improving care and pursuing inclusive medical research to help develop precision medicine for all populations.

This was a key element of the Arizona Return of Actionable Variants Empirical, or RAVE, study, which brought genomic medicine to a federally qualified community health center that serves low-income patients in the Phoenix area. Researchers from Arizona State University, Mayo Clinic and Mountain Park Health Center collaborated on this study.

"One of the central aims of our study was to assess the feasibility of offering genomic screening in a nontraditional setting," says Richard Sharp. Ph.D., director of Mayo Clinic's Bioethics program. "In the past, access to genomic medicine has been limited to large academic medical centers like Mayo Clinic and, unfortunately, not all patients have convenient access to those types of facilities." Dr. Sharp is a co-principal investigator for the study.

Specifically, 500 Latino adults consented to have their DNA sequenced for a panel of "medically actionable genes." The panel included genes that predispose people to certain diseases such as heart disease, and breast and colon cancers. Findings in these genes are related to health conditions with established medical recommendations or interventions. Then the results were shared with the participants and their providers for follow-up.

Challenges in returning sequencing results were published in Genetics in Medicine. The study highlights the intersection of medical advances with social determinants of health, including factors such as the unequal distribution of resources, poverty, access to health care and transportation, housing instability, and health literacy. 

The researchers will be able to extend their efforts further with funding from the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). They will work on a five-year project with a handful of other institutions across the U.S. through the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics, or eMERGE, Network, an NIH-organized and funded consortium of U.S. medical research institutions.

"In the next phase of this project, we plan to focus on the genomic risk of common diseases, including coronary heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and colon cancer," says Iftikhar Kullo, M.D., a Mayo Clinic cardiologist. "Our goal is to incorporate genomic risk variants in conventional risk stratification algorithms to increase their accuracy and assess outcomes after returning results to participants and providers." Dr. Kullo is a co-principal investigator for the study.

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When Division 1 women's college basketball player Jamie Ruden could no longer play through, or live with, the chronic back pain that was keeping her from playing her usual style of basketball, she came to Mayo Clinic for the surgical fix she knew she needed.

Jamie Ruden knew right away something was wrong. It was the summer before her sophomore year at Arizona State University, and the basketball player was in the gym training for ASU's upcoming season when she felt "a pop" in her back.

"I was immediately worried, but I wanted to push through and continue my work out because during the offseason all I wanted to do was get better for the regular season," Jamie says. "Sometimes, you'll have an occasional pulled muscle or something like that you have to work through."

As time went on, however, it became clear the "pop" Jamie had felt in her back was more than just a pulled muscle. "My back started to get worse and worse," she says. "I started to get concerned that I might be seriously injured. But backs are just so tricky that I put off getting an MRI because I kept optimistically thinking that it was just a strained muscle or general back tightness, and that it would resolve itself on its own with rest."

Playing through pain

Later that summer, however, with no improvement in sight, Jamie went in for an MRI, and the source of the problem became clear. "The MRI revealed I had a pretty seriously herniated disk at the L5-S1 lumbosacral joint in my back," Jamie says.

With the extent and seriousness of her injury revealed, Jamie scheduled appointments with several local doctors in Arizona who all recommended the same thing. "They were hoping my disk issue would resolve itself through rest," she says. "So for the next two months, our strategy was for me to take a complete break from basketball."

At the end of those two months, though, little had changed. "We didn't end up seeing a lot of improvement. That's when I started talking with neurosurgeons, chiropractors, and physical therapists here in Phoenix along with our team doctor," Jamie says. "There wasn't really a consensus about what I should do, which was hard for me because I just wanted to get back to playing basketball. I missed being on the court with my teammates and coaches. I was really starting to get anxious during this time."

"There wasn't really a consensus about what I should do, which was hard for me because I just wanted to get back to playing basketball."

Jamie Ruden

Sensing her mounting anxiety and frustration, Jamie's parents talked to her about coming home to Minnesota. "They were doing everything they could for her in Arizona," Jamie's mom, Valerie Ruden, says. "She had a physical therapist who she saw three times a week, but her MRIs were basically looking worse. And since our family is here in Rochester, it made sense for her to come back home and be seen at Mayo Clinic."

After talking it over with her parents, that's what Jamie did. Her first stop at Mayo was the office of Karen Newcomer-Aney, M.D., in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. "Her thought was that I had a pretty intensely herniated disk and there were two different ways we could go about treating it: either have surgery right away, which would result in me missing my entire sophomore basketball season, or go a more conservative route by doing physical therapy and playing through the injury as best as I could," Jamie says.

With her parents' blessing, Jamie chose Plan B. "I played through the season, and it went relatively well. I had back pain, but I was able to manage it enough to where I could play. The physical therapy really helped me," she says.

By season's end, however, Jamie was ready to be done with her back pain once and for all. "I'd just gotten tired of dealing with the chronic pain," Jamie says. "We got another MRI, and that confirmed that my back was in about the same condition it had been at the start. It was pretty clear that surgery would be my best option. My entire care team at Mayo Clinic agreed with that."

Prepping for surgery

With consensus reached on how to move forward, Valerie, a nurse in Mayo Clinic's Department of Surgical Services, knew exactly who she wanted to perform Jamie's procedure.

"I'd gotten to know our chief resident at the time, Meghan Murphy, M.D., really well from taking care of her surgical patients in our Post-Anesthesia Care Unit at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus, so I approached her and just asked if she'd take a look at Jamie's MRIs to see what she thought," Valerie says. "She did, and she agreed that surgery was definitely the next step."

With that, Jamie was put on Dr. Murphy's surgical calendar. "She's great," Jamie says of Dr. Murphy. "She's so encouraging and easy to talk to. She's a former college athlete herself, so she really understood what I was going through, and why it was so important for me to get better."

Dr. Murphy also eased Jamie's initial fears about the surgical procedure that was being proposed to fix the lumbosacral radiculopathy — or nerve root compression — that was plaguing Jamie's back.

"It's technically neurosurgery, and the term 'neurosurgery' is what intimidated me the most," Jamie says. "But Dr. Murphy and the rest of my care team helped me understand that it's a very minimally invasive procedure that carries a really good success rate — not only for the general population, but for athletes looking to return to their sports, as well. I was nervous before the procedure, but also so ready to feel better."

"It felt 100 times better. That was pretty amazing to me, and I was so grateful to Dr. Murphy and everyone else on my care team."

Jamie Ruden

She didn't have to wait long. "I was immediately up and walking the next day," Jamie says. "I, of course, had the normal post-surgical pain. But two weeks after the procedure, the difference in my back was night and day. It felt 100 times better. That was pretty amazing to me, and I was so grateful to Dr. Murphy and everyone else on my care team."

As was Valerie. "I don't think it could have gone any better," she says. "Dr. Murphy; Dr. Jeffrey Pasternak, her anesthesiologist; Brian Ogren, her certified registered nurse anesthetist; and Cindy, my co-worker and fellow recovery nurse who took care of her immediately after surgery were all amazing. I remember thinking all the stars were aligning with her surgery because she had a wonderful care team with her the entire time."

That care team also helped lay the groundwork for a recovery and rehabilitation plan that would get Jamie back on the basketball court as soon as possible. "I was able to walk a couple hours after surgery. Four or five days later, I was able to start recumbent biking," Jamie says. "I progressed to an elliptical machine at the four-week mark and started jogging six weeks after my surgery. Once I could start jogging again, things progressed even quicker from there."

Looking ahead

Upon her return to Arizona, Jamie says her athletic trainer at ASU helped her maintain her progress "She's really awesome and worked with me a lot," Jamie says. "She was so supportive throughout my recovery and was able to get me back to doing change-of-direction movements pretty quickly. My surgery was on May 10. By the end of July, I was back to doing most of our basketball drills. That was pretty awesome."

The experience was a welcome change from what Jamie had been feeling and playing through for so long. "The surgery's had a really positive impact on my game. I feel so much stronger and more confident because I don't have any more conscious or noticeable pain that I'm trying to play through," Jamie says. "The surgery Dr. Murphy did for me has freed me up to getting back to playing a much more aggressive style of basketball, rather than shying away from contact, as I had done at times while I was injured."

"I know how important physical therapists have been to my own health and my own recoveries, and I want to help make that kind of a difference for others."

Jamie Ruden

Now as she prepares to head into her last year at Arizona State, Jamie says she's planning to make the most of her final season of basketball before embarking on a career path she hopes will one day lead her back to Mayo Clinic.

"After college, I'm planning to go on to physical therapy school," she says. "I've become very passionate about physical therapy because I've been through a lot of injuries myself. I know how important physical therapists have been to my own health and my own recoveries, and I want to help make that kind of a difference for others.

Dr. Murphy is confident Jamie will do just that and more. "Jamie is such an awesome person," she says. "She really put in the work to get better and was compliant with what her medical team recommended. I think a lot of the credit for her post-op success speaks to her diligence in her recovery and her work ethic. I have no doubts that she'll end up becoming an amazing physical therapist in her own right — probably helping many other athletes compete at the Division I level just like her."

HELPFUL LINKS

• Read more about the symptoms and causes of back pain.
• Learn more about the Departments of Neurosurgery and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
• Connect with others talking about spine health on Mayo Clinic Connect.
• Explore Mayo Clinic.
• Request an appointment.

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Article by Caitlin Doran

Mayo Clinic supports biobanks — large collections of patient biological samples—near each of its three campuses in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota, with the goal of advancing research to broaden the understanding of health and disease. Paired with each biobank, Mayo fields a community advisory board (CAB), whose members are recruited from the local community to help guide the direction and conduct of research.

“Each sample in the biobank represents a person from our local community,” says Barry Hall, a member of the Florida CAB. The board’s job is to safeguard those samples: to make sure they’re used in research that honors the donor’s contribution, even though the person who donated their samples may never be able to see or benefit from the results.

Community advisory board members also want to ensure that research using biobank resources aligns with the needs of the community. In Phoenix, Mayo Clinic collaborates with Mountain Park Health System and Arizona State University to host a CAB that works with the Sangre Por Salud (Spanish for Blood for Health) Biobank. This biobank was created to expand precision medicine research to the Latino community, a population that is underrepresented in biobanks and in research.

"Every community is different, and what they need from research is different too,” says Crystal Gonzalez, community advisory board coordinator for Sangre Por Salud.

In addition, community advisory board members ground research in the values of the community, helping investigators understand how their work may be perceived from the outside.

“I think researchers are so passionate about curing disease that they sometimes have blinders on,” says Kathryn Hollenhorst, a member of Mayo’s community advisory board in Minnesota. “I feel it is our responsibility to make sure they take the blinders off and be challenged to see things from a lay person’s perspective.”

A mutually-beneficial arrangement

The community advisory boards in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota play a critical role in Mayo’s individualized medicine research, says Richard Sharp, Ph.D., director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine Bioethics Program. “Their perspectives are invaluable in developing individualized medicine approaches that will one day benefit the community.”

Suzette Bielinski, Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic epidemiology researcher, agrees. She recently worked with the Mayo community advisory board in Minnesota to review her study’s recruitment brochure and consent document. She says the CAB’s feedback was “invaluable, because it made the study materials easier to understand and more accessible to the general public.”

Not all researchers who use Mayo’s biobanks choose to engage with the community advisory board. Dr. Bielinksi considers that a missed opportunity. 

“Bottom line,” she says, “collaboration with the community advisory board enhances my research.”

Community advisory board members also benefit from the opportunity to take part in research. The more they participate, the more knowledgeable they become about the fields of genomics and individualized medicine.

“Members are ideal partners and advocates for Mayo investigators,” says Karen Meagher, Ph.D., associate director of public engagement, Mayo Clinic Biomedical Ethics Research Program. “They help communicate the value of the research back to the community.”

Mayo Clinic Biobank Community Advisory Boards

Rochester, Minnesota

The Minnesota community advisory board works with a wide range of researchers and its members draw on their history of engagement, which dates back to helping the biobank get started in 2007. Most of the current collection has been donated by Mayo Clinic patients.  

In addition to its research advisory role, the community advisory board is also actively engaged in community outreach. In 2016, they joined the Rochester Public Library to develop the Bioethics at the Cinema events, a movie screening and discussion series free and open to the public, designed to engage the community in conversations about important bioethics issues in research and clinical care.

Northeast Florida

The Florida community advisory board meets at Mayo’s campus in Jacksonville, but the group draws its members from throughout northeastern Florida. Jacksonville has a large and diverse population, with a significant number of retirees, which is reflected in the membership of the board and in the donors to the biobank.

Jacksonville also has a large geographic footprint and is home to many other medical institutions. The community advisory board is working to have membership reflect how patients in the area often move in and out of these different health systems.

Phoenix, Arizona

The Arizona community advisory board works with Sangre por Salud (blood for health), a biobank collaboratively managed by Mountain Park Health Center, Arizona State University, and Mayo Clinic. The biobank was created to expand precision medicine research the local Latino community. 

Research conducted with biological samples from Sangre por Salud focuses on health issues specific to this population; in particular, chronic health conditions, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes that disproportionately impact the Latino community. Community members who donate materials to the biobank are patients at Mountain Park Health Center, a Federally-Qualified Health Center that provides comprehensive health care to underserved populations.

More information

• Read this recent article about Sangre por Salud Biobank.
• Visit websites for the Mayo Clinic Biobank or Sangre por Salud Biobank.
• View this short MayoTalks podcast video about Mayo Clinic Biobank Community Advisory Boards.
• Watch this video about the Sangre por Salud Biobank Community Advisory Board.

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Immediately following the summit, several participants will be available to speak with members of the media.

The Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University Alliance for Health Care Payment Reform Summit will convene subject matter experts from around the country, including the voice of patients, to inform the development of alternative payment models. The objective is to ensure access to, and sustainability of, high-quality health care in America. With a focus on the needs of patients, the expert participants will examine data drawn from a variety of sources to assess the impact of various payment models on patient access and patterns of health care use.

The summit’s theme is “Strengthening Healthcare Access for the Complex Patient,” and attendees will explore these following topics:

• Working toward high-quality, accessible health care
• Understanding complexity through the lens of risk adjustment
• Attributing and measuring costs of care for complex patients
• Measuring and rewarding quality of care

WHEN: Jan. 14, 1 p.m. (Arizona time, MST)

WHERE: The audio news conference call-in number is 888-224-7954 (toll-free).

Please dial in at 12:50 p.m. MST, as the briefing will start promptly at 1 p.m. MST.

Callers will be muted during the formal remarks portion of the audio news conference, and can ask questions during the Q&A portion.

WHO: Q&A participants include Elliott S. Fisher, M.D., MPH, Director, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (opening remarks), and representatives from Mayo Clinic, Arizona State University and others.

RSVP: RSVP to Jim McVeigh, Mayo Clinic Public Affairs, at mcveigh.jim@mayo.edu.

Click here to listen to the audio from this news conference.

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About the Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University Alliance for Health Care
The alliance is developing comprehensive improvements in the science of health care delivery and practice ─ all toward one goal: continually advancing patient care. Together, the recognized world leader in patient care, education and research, and the nation's No. 1-ranked university for innovation are combining expertise from every corner of health care — doctors to bioengineers to business experts — for an adaptive approach to preparing the next generation of health care pioneers and practitioners in our communities. For more information, visit mayo.asu.edu.

About Arizona State University
Arizona State University has developed a new model for the American Research University, creating an institution that is committed to access, excellence and impact. Arizona State University measures itself by those it includes ─ not by those it excludes. As the prototype for a New American University, Arizona State University pursues research that contributes to the public good, and Arizona State University assumes major responsibility for the economic, social and cultural vitality of the communities that surround it. For more information, visit asu.edu.

About Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit organization committed to clinical practice, education and research, providing expert, whole-person care to everyone who needs healing. For more information, visit http://www.mayoclinic.org/about-mayo-clinic or https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/.

MEDIA CONTACTS:
Jim McVeigh, Mayo Clinic Public Affairs, 480-301-4222, mcveigh.jim@mayo.edu

Steven Beschloss, Arizona State University, 480-727-3841, steven.beschloss@asu.edu

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The inaugural Mayo Clinic and ASU Team Science Grants will fund Biomedical Sensing, Functional Restoration and Biomedical Imaging/Informatics themed projects. Three collaborative Mayo and ASU research teams were chosen, which are comprised of researchers from both institutions.

“This uniquely collaborative approach to medical science capitalizes on the clinical and technological strengths of Mayo Clinic and the broad range of engineering expertise at Arizona State University,” says Gregory Gores, M.D., executive dean for Research at Mayo Clinic. “We are pleased to support multidisciplinary teams with rich expertise, working synergistically to transform scientific discoveries into critical technological advances to address unmet needs of patients.”

Together Mayo Clinic and ASU have committed up to $2.7 million in award funding that will be split among each of the three projects.

“ASU and Mayo Clinic are redesigning conventional approaches and proposing novel solutions to enhance patient care, education and research focused on better health outcomes,” says Sethuraman “Panch” Panchanathan, executive vice president of Knowledge Enterprise Development and chief research officer at ASU. “Investing in this year’s Team Science awardees helps us recognize the transformative efforts of brilliant researchers from both organizations.”

MEDIA CONTACTS: Julie Janovsky-Mason, Mayo Clinic Public Affairs, 480-301-6173, janovsky-mason.julie@mayo.edu

Jim McVeigh, Mayo Clinic Public Affairs, 480-301-4368, mcveigh.jim@mayo.edu

Judy Keane, Arizona State University, 480-965-3779, judy.keane@asu.edu

The three teams will be jointly led by faculty from both institutions.

This year’s awarded projects are:

A multidisciplinary approach to optimize integration of sensory feedback for prosthetic applications in people with upper limb loss: A multidisciplinary team will work to enhance intuitive motor control and the ability for those with upper limb loss to feel with their prosthesis. The project will test and validate sensor technologies integrated with a prosthetic to address the unmet needs of individuals who currently have upper limb loss. Co-principal investigators are Kristin Zhao, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic, and  Marco Santello, Ph.D., ASU.

Phase-contrast imaging using a compact coherent X-ray light source: Working with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, the Mayo Clinic and ASU team will research an alternative method of X-ray phase-contrast imaging (XPCI). Currently, XPCI requires long exposures while using medical x-ray tubes. The team aims to construct a compact X-ray light source that will make medical XPCI clinically possible. Co-principal investigators are William Graves, Ph.D., ASU, and Cynthia McCollough, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic.

Next generation brain mapping in epilepsy surgery: The project team will focus on developing a novel, flexible sensor platform for electrophysiology mapping of normal and epileptic brain tissue. The goal is to allow surgeons to visualize abnormalities and cut out epileptic brain tissue, which will improve efficiency and outcomes. Co-principal investigators are Greg Worrell, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic, and Gregory Raupp, Ph.D., ASU.

About Arizona State University
Arizona State University is a New American University — a major public educational institution, a premier research center and a leader in innovation. ASU’s vision is described by its three core principles: excellence in scholarship, access to education and impact in the global community. As a New American University, ASU is intellectually vibrant, socially conscious and globally engaged. For more information, visit www.asu.edu.

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