{"121811":{"#nid":"121811","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Boyan Pushes for Reauthorization of Pediatric Medical Device Legislation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBarbara Boyan, the Price Gilbert, Jr. Chair in Tissue Engineering in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, and director of the Atlanta Pediatric Device Consortium, traveled to Washington D.C. recently to support legislation that encourages the development of pediatric medical devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring her visit in February, Boyan met with several congressmen, urging them to reauthorize \u201cThe Pediatric Medical Device Safety and Improvement Act.\u0022 The law provides grants to fund non-profit pediatric device consortia, such as the Atlanta Pediatric Device Consortium. The grants connect scientists and innovators with device manufacturers, providing them financial resources and regulatory guidance needed to advance the development of devices for children.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe funding from the FDA has opened many doors and some of our small companies have been able to secure venture capital funding to pursue these devices,\u201d Boyan said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of three FDA-sponsored consortia awarded last year, the Atlanta Pediatric Device Consortium is a partnership between Georgia Tech, Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Atlanta Pediatric Consortium provides assistance with engineering design, prototype development, pre-clinical and clinical studies and commercialization for novel pediatric medical devices. It is currently composed of nine projects, three main projects and six pilot projects, which were incorporated from the first Pediatric Device Competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis consortium has brought excitement to the Atlanta Community and strengthened our research partnerships to develop the future of pediatric medical devices,\u201d Boyan said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPassed in 2007, \u201cThe Pediatric Medical Device Safety and Improvement Act\u0022 includes important incentives that promote the development of medical devices for children, which currently lags five to 10 years behind those for adults.\u0026nbsp;Significant barriers to pediatric device development exist, including physiological differences in pediatric patients and challenges with recruiting pediatric participants for clinical trial.\u0026nbsp;The law helps to support the creation of more pediatric devices, with 107 device projects developed during the program\u2019s first two years, according to a report by the General Accounting Office.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoyan was accompanied to D.C. by consortium co-directors Kevin Maher, MD, a cardiologist and researcher specializing in pediatrics with appointments at the Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta Sibley Heart Center and Emory University and Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD, a pediatric hematologist\/oncologist and bioengineer with appointments at Emory, the Aflac Cancer Center of Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta and Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Pediatric Medical Device Safety and Improvement Act\u0022 provides grants to fund non-profit pediatric device consortia, such as the Atlanta Pediatric Device Consortium. Boyan and others in the field are pushing lawmakers to reauthorize the legislation before the end of September.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cThe Pediatric Medical Device Safety and Improvement Act\u0022 provides grants to fund non-profit pediatric device consortia, such as the Atlanta Pediatric Device Consortium."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2012-04-03 12:19:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:56","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"109231":{"id":"109231","type":"image","title":"Dr. Barbara Boyan","body":null,"created":"1449178201","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:30:01","changed":"1475894728","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:28","alt":"Dr. Barbara Boyan","file":{"fid":"194040","name":"boyan.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/boyan_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/boyan_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4865995,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/boyan_0.jpg?itok=QPglXo42"}},"121841":{"id":"121841","type":"image","title":"Dr. Boyan in DC","body":null,"created":"1449178582","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:36:22","changed":"1475894743","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:43","alt":"Dr. Boyan in DC","file":{"fid":"194401","name":"boyan_dc.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/boyan_dc_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/boyan_dc_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1948122,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/boyan_dc_0.jpg?itok=DbvuOQAV"}}},"media_ids":["109231","121841"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/release.html?nid=71150","title":"FDA Launches Atlanta Pediatric Device Consortium"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/downloads\/Drugs\/DevelopmentApprovalProcess\/DevelopmentResources\/UCM049870.pdf","title":"The Pediatric Medical Device Safety and Improvement Act"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/facultystaff\/faculty_record.php?id=48","title":"Barbara Boyan"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"155","name":"Congressional Testimony"}],"keywords":[{"id":"14684","name":"atlanta pediatric device consortium"},{"id":"9548","name":"Barbara Boyan"},{"id":"29221","name":"pediatric devices"},{"id":"29211","name":"The Pediatric Medical Device Safety and Improvement Act"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["klipp@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}