{"id":155,"date":"2015-01-11T08:58:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T13:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/?p=155"},"modified":"2015-01-11T08:58:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T13:58:55","slug":"my-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/2015\/01\/11\/my-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"My tribe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_156\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/01\/My-team.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-156\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/01\/My-team-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Nonspec team at the temple!\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/01\/My-team-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/01\/My-team-1024x763.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/01\/My-team-402x300.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nonspec team at the temple!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is my tribe, the folks who are working on the prosthetic project in Hubli &#8211; Kalyani, Chaitanya, Erin, Jon, Shruti and Brendan.\u00a0 We&#8217;re a combination of a highly bonded core team (Erin, Jon, Brendan) and new additions from UML (me) and BVB (Kalyani, Chaitanya, Shruti).\u00a0 What has happened is that we&#8217;ve quickly coalesced in to an effective team with the goal of having the prosthetic limbs tested on patients.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a blast watching the BVB students using their technical skills, acquiring tools or supplies to get the prosthetics ready for the patients.\u00a0 They are also culturally savvy &#8211; and can ask the appropriate questions to the patients and professionals involved.\u00a0 I add the medical\/nursing prospective: how does the device affect the patient&#8217;s activities of daily living, the stability of the limb and impact on the tissues.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an exciting and nerve wracking time for the core Nonspec team, as this is the big event &#8211; with all of the lab testing done, how will the patient with amputation perceive the devices.\u00a0 These are beautiful, functional, and low cost &#8211; a dream product that can impact the lives of thousands of amputees, especially in financially disadvantaged areas of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is our big day &#8211; we meet our first patient at 8:30!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my tribe, the folks who are working on the prosthetic project in Hubli &#8211; Kalyani, Chaitanya, Erin, Jon, Shruti and Brendan.\u00a0 We&#8217;re a combination of a highly bonded core team (Erin, Jon, Brendan) and new additions from UML &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/2015\/01\/11\/my-tribe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}