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WINFOCUS and Henry Ford Innovation Institute
members, Dr. Luca Neri and Alberta Spreafic,
work with Kathleen Garcia from Wyle Engineering
to help train Dr. Chamorro from the rural
community of Las Salinas, Nicaragua, using the
ADUM and tele-ultrasound applications.
Image credit: WINFOCUS/Missions of Grace
NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn assists CSA
astronaut Chris Hadfield with an Ultrasound 2
scan in the Columbus Module of the ISS.
Image credit: NASA
WINFOCUS has also benefited from the tele-medicine
and remote guidance techniques developed for use
on the space station, and has adapted and further
developed them to allow large-scale integration
Those same techniques are now being adapted and in healthcare systems on Earth through low-
used for people living in remote, underdeveloped areas cost applications. Local healthcare providers are
where CT scans, MRIs and even simple X-ray exams empowered, more patients can access quality and
are impossible. In partnership with the World Interactive timely diagnostic care, and the healthcare system
Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound (WINFOCUS), is made more accessible and efficient.
ADUM Principal Investigator Scott Dulchavsky, M.D., The impact of ADUM is also felt in modern emergency
is taking techniques originally developed for space rooms by proving the effectiveness of ultrasound in
station astronauts and adapting them for use in Earth’s diagnosing conditions previously considered beyond
farthest corners by developing protocols for rapidly its technical capabilities, such as a collapsed lung.
performing complex procedures with remote expert The ultrasound has now become integrated as a
guidance and training. standard of care in medical treatments. In addition,
WINFOCUS is a global network organization whose the ADUM protocols have proven so effective that they
main goal is to use ultrasound as an enabling point- are now part of the standard medical school curriculum.
of-care device in an effort to make medical care The American College of Surgeons, which requires
more accessible in remote regions. Using the ADUM ultrasound training for all surgical interns and residents,
methods, WINFOCUS has trained more than 20,000 is using the ADUM program.
physicians and physician extenders in 68 countries. The ADUM investigation and the WINFOCUS
These include two important holistic healthcare partnership have brought the promise of space station
projects: in remote areas of Nicaragua (from 2011); research back down to Earth in perhaps the most
and in a statewide healthcare project in Brazil, in direct and immediate way possible—by keeping people
partnership with the Secretary of Health of the State healthy and alive, even in remote regions where care
of Minas Gerais (since 2012). was previously a limited option.

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