- These students are building AI for health care access
For many, navigating the tangled web of health care systems is a frustrating maze. From finding providers to scheduling appointments to gaining insurance authorization, it can feel impossible at times. An Ohio State sophomore and his team are tackling these problems — with the help of AI.
- How one Ohio State study can change lives
New research validates an alumna-created system that helps adults with intellectual disabilities get physically fit and avoid chronic health problems.
- The power of seeing and being seen
Inspired by her professors and personal immigration experience, this compassionate optometrist provides quality care to disadvantaged community members and teaches her students to treat patients as people first.
- Innovating solutions to vision disorders
Dr. Melissa Bailey, a former Ohio State Innovator of the Year, is working on two breakthrough products that could make a major difference for people around the world with unaddressed vision needs. “I feel a really strong personal sense that I have talents and I need to use them to make the world a better place,” she says.
- Improving care for veterans with brain injuries
David Hibler ’12, ’20 MS has spent two decades supporting his military brothers and sisters. Now, he's working as a liaison between the veterans community and researchers seeking to improve health care services for those who have suffered traumatic brain injuries in the military.
- Leveraging gene therapy to change childrens' lives
Parents of children with rare, incurable diseases have long had to deal with dual sources of hopelessness: the helpless feeling that their child was sick, and the compounding dread of knowing that few treatments were likely forthcoming. Dr. Krystof Bankiewicz, who has deep roots in the field of gene therapy, helped develop a therapy that is bringing the ability to walk and talk to children around the world who were born with neither.
