Open to the public, the weekly CIMIT Forum provides an ongoing stimulus for cross-disciplinary exchange among the members of the CIMIT community, and an entry point for new individuals and institutions to become involved. Speakers are invited from around the world and from the rich research community of our local institutions, chosen for their pioneering work on new procedures, applications, or technologies.

The format is designed to stimulate discussion and the interchange of ideas to lead to breakthroughs in biomedical engineering and patient care.

CIMIT Innovation Congress and Workshops

The only conference attracting government, industry, academia, foundations and military for the purpose of catalyzing collaborations and showcasing novel technology solutions for transforming healthcare.
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Launched by a gift from John Abele and the Argosy Foundation, the goal of the Convening Program is to study and enhance the architecture of participation across disciplines.  The CIMIT Forum is used to experiment and assess tools and strategies for stimulating speakers, moderators and audience to think differently about an issue or topic and foster an environment where participants expect to be interactive and challenged.

During the month of July, the CIMIT Forum series focuses in depth on a particular topic, offering attendees the opportunity to build an understanding of a new or important clinical or technical area over four weeks and eight or more speakers.

View past Summer Series topics and speakers.

The CIMIT Education Program assists CIMIT Leadership to develop, manage and implement continuing medical education courses and conferences.

Engineering Medical Devices at MIT
MIT 2.75 Precision Machine Design is a course collaboration engaging five MIT student engineering teams in defining a medical device problem and designing and building a prototype solution in one semester. The course has run four times, each year with a new cast of physicians and device challenges. Robopsy, a robotic device to assist radiologists performing tumor biopsies was invented by an MIT 2.75 team led by Rajiv Gupta, MD. The team has been awarded the 2007 MIT $100K prize, the world's leading entrepreneurship competition.

Harvard Business School- Inventing Breakthroughs and Commercializing Science and Technology
The CIMIT Education Program collaborated with Lee Fleming at Harvard Business School in a multidisciplinary course, involving students from the schools of Business, Medicine, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Law, Government and Public Health. Student teams selected six CIMIT projects, assessed and developed plans for translation to commercialization.

Harvey Mudd Engineering Clinic Program
CIMIT sponsors an undergraduate team in Harvey Mudd College Engineering Clinic program to complete a conceptual design project related to the management of combat trauma. Recent projects include novel implementation of triage algorithms, water purification, a portable cooling systems for reducing metabolic load at injury sites, and a self-optimizing, closed-loop, medical ventilator.

Courses at Harvard Medical School and MIT on Entrepreneurship
Steve Schacter, CIMIT Site Miner and Program Leader is faculty for HST 906 - Roles of Physicians and Scientists in the Business World - the course provides exposure for third and fourth year MD and PhD students to career opportunities in life science in industry.

MIT HST BEP Program
The Biomedical Enterprise Program (BEP) at MIT exposes students to an integrated curriculum focused on the complex process of product development and commercialization in the health care industry. CIMIT is collaborating with Dr. Rox Anderson, the physician professor leading the Clinical Experience element of the program.