![]() With Thanksgiving Break coming, I wanted to contact some more professionals. I was able to meet with Dr. Miller’s assistant and schedule a meeting with Dr. Wells from UT Southwestern on November 30th in his office. With these appointments accounted for, I can rest assure that I will be able to hit the ground running after the week long break. During the break I read more about three dimensional printing technology in the medical field. Specifically, I did some light-reading on the development of 3D printing tissue. These publications provide some information about the use of biotic material to develop fully-functioning tissue. These developments would do wonders in the practice of medicine, and I immediately saw its implication in ACL surgeries (which I researched in Research Assessment 2). Three dimensional printing technology can possibly allow surgeons to replace a damaged Anterior Cruciate Ligament with a newly printed prosthesis rather than a graft from the patellar tendon. These ideas seem much more grand, and would require much more research into the relation of cellular biology. I do not believe I can pursue this idea in the span of a single year in ISM. Nonetheless, it was an interesting read. The break in itself was a nice relief of stress from school work, and it was a great opportunity for me to learn more about new technological advances in the field of medicine. Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future. -Hippocrates
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Shoaib FarooquiStudent currently enrolled in Liberty High School, studying orthopaedic medicine under the mentorship of Dr. Joel Wells. Archives
January 2018
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