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Hi everyone, I'm Jim
McDonough. I co-lead

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the Applied Medical
Engineering Lab in the

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office of the Vice
President for Research.

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And we're here today
at our Remote and

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Austere Conditions
Grand Challenge.

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This is one of the
University of Utah's

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preeminent events to
bring together really

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innovative approaches that
our research community

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is taking to solving
real world problems.

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The setup for this is

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use-inspired research.

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And a lot of people
don't know, but all

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over the campus of
the University of Utah

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are great teams of
investigators who are

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putting forward solutions,
very novel solutions

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to real-world
problems. So the Office

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of the Vice President
of Research, the

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Applied Medical and
Engineering Lab are

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sponsoring annually
our Remote and Austere

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Conditions Grand
Challenge. It's a pitch

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competition. It's Shark
Tank for investigative

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teams who come
together, present their

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ideas, and hopefully
walk away with a share

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of the president's prize
package of a million

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dollars to water
samples to communicating

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with people in
remote and austere

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conditions to advancements
in medicine from

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skin cancer to tuberculosis
and it really is

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one of those opportunities
for our university

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and its investigative
teams to shine

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the quality of the
presentations and the

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types of projects
being presented I think

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are going to have
really important impact

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and the way they
are conducting these

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evaluations is is just
inspiring. I think that

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as a judge coming back
from my second time

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I am never I never
cease to be amazed

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at just how important
this work is and how

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important it is that
the leadership at the

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University of Utah
supports this kind of

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effort. I look forward
to hearing more the

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presentations today and
seeing the important

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discoveries that
will come out of the

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University of Utah
in the years to come.

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Last year my advisor,
Alan Kuntz, pitched

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the idea of a three
-armed medic which is a

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robotic arm that assists
in pre-hospital medical

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interventions which
will pick up an object

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and place it in your
hands when you ask

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it for it. The remote
and austere conditions

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grant has been really
great because it's

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given us the opportunity
to develop this robotic

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system that we
probably would not have

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gotten funding to
develop otherwise. We're

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grateful for the RAC
project and the program.

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Hi, my name is Julie
Fritz. I'm a professor

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in physical therapy,
and today I had the

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opportunity to present
work we're doing on

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telehealth physical
therapy for people with

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chronic pain. My name
is Dr. J.R. Pickett from

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the Department of
Emergency Medicine, the EMS

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section here at
University of Utah. I just

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gave a pitch here at
the RAC Grand Challenge

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where we proposed to
deploy novel precipitation

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measurement devices
for monitoring the

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snowpack in remote
locations in the mountains

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nearby Salt Lake City
but also worldwide.

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I'm presenting a
small handheld device

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for analgesia and
anesthesia in the

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pre-hospital setting
for use in EMS or

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rescue or combat
settings. When I

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learned about this
competition and the

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focus on remote and
austere conditions.

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It really resonated
with work that my team

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has been doing to try
to provide better care

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for people who live
in remote conditions.

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So it sounded like a
great opportunity and it

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was fun to put together
our team and work

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with the coaches and
then have a chance to

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come here and present
our work with other

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colleagues who are all
doing really exciting

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things. It was really
exciting to be part of

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this program because
we had to prepare a

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short eight-minute
pitch, something that

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professors aren't used
to doing being so tightly

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scripted and it's
exciting to see all the

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others presentations
too how well they were

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presented and the
novelty and importance of

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the work they were doing
I've never presented

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to this panel of experts
before and seeing

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all these different
ideas that are just so

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creative and people
are so passionate about

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it's just a really
neat experience being

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here this time I'm very
glad to be part of it