The ‘Course ‘Partner in Balance’ by dementia’ wins the Medical Inspirator award 2017!
After an intense period in which a lot of campaign is conducted for the Medical Inspirator award and the three nominated research projects, the winner is announced this 23rd November at the VSNU Impact festival. First place goes to ‘Course ‘Partner in Balance’ by dementia’. This project receives €75.000 to spend on their research. With this prize the researcher Lizzy Boots (MUMC) and patient representative Mrs. Jennie Tillie-Hecker wants to further develop their course, which helps caretakers to deal with the insecurities and questions after the diagnose dementia.
Second place goes to the project ‘Smart selftest for breathing’ with a prize of €50.000. With this money researcher Erik Bischoff and patient representative Joep Fleuren want to develop the selftest further to enable an early recognition of a lungattack and thereby preventing hospitalization. And third place goes to the project ‘IVWear makes an infusion portable’ and they win €25.000. The researchers Prof. Bart Verkerke (UMCG), Max Heintzen, Melcher Frankema, Niels Weijermars and patient representative Dave Verkerke wants to use the prize to further develop their portable infusion, causing patients to move freely through the hospital without an infusion pole.
The winning project ‘Course ‘Partner in Balance’ by dementia’ is chosen by the jury because of the different ways and levels of involvement of the caretakers in the project. In addition the jury acknowledges the need of guarding the caretaker of overloading and this course works preventive.
What is the Medical Inspirator award?
The Medical Inspirator award is a prize for the collaboration between researcher and patient or other end users, like care takers. From the submissions three research projects were nominated by an independent jury of experts.
These three projects were guided in making a promotional video about their research project. Then the voting- and campaign period of a month starts in which the public can vote for the most inspirational collaboration. The voting process is monitored carefully.
Medical Inspirator award 2017
The three research projects of the Medical Inspirator award 2017 are nominated by an independent jury of experts out of 21 submissions. This nomination is based on an inspirational collaboration and outstanding quality of the research project. With the prize money the three teams will work on their medical product which complies to the patients’ need. In order to improve the thee innovations and making them available for patients in the future. During the public voting process for the Medical Inspirator award 2017 irregularities have been noticed causing to declare the voting process invalid. According to the rules of procedures the jury assessed the nominees to determine the winner. The jury has reviewed on patient benefit, patient involvement and quality of the project.
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