Rice360 sponsored Team AGILE who are developing an extension of Rice360's LUCIA training model to include features for training clinicians on performing endometrial biopsies.
The project, supported by Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies and developed in the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen, was created by students Lauren Walcott, Saumya Chauhan and Valerie Valentin under the mentorship of Meaghan Bond and Jenny Carns Plante. Clinical mentors Mila Salcedo and Parisa Fallah, obstetrician-gynecologists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, helped guide the project’s medical design.
Rice360 had previously developed the LUCIA, a training model used worldwide to teach cervical cancer biopsy techniques. Team AGILE expanded LUCIA to include a uterine component to simulate the tactile experience of an endometrial biopsy. The AGILE uterine model attaches to the existing LUCIA platform.
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