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Santosh Basapur, PhD

Santosh Basapur, PhD
Director of Design, Rush University
Assistant Professor, Graduate College
Founder, Health + Design Integration Lab
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Rush Medical College
Education

PhD, Design (Systems), IIT Institute of Design
MS, Industrial and Systems Engineering (Human Factors)

Areas of Expertise

Human-centered systems design, human systems integration, health care and social innovation, design in translational science, health care delivery research and design, implementation science, health sciences and design education

Contact Info:

600 S. Paulina Street
Suite 202D
Chicago, IL 60612
santosh_basapur@rush.edu
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Biography

Santosh Basapur is a PhD in Systems Design from IIT Institute of Design, Chicago. Basapur joined Rush in 2018 and is the Director of Design in the Provost Office, Rush University. He is an Assistant Professor with joint appointments in The Graduate College and the Rush Medical College. His expertise is in the application of Human-Centered Systems Design methods to translational science research, healthcare delivery design projects as well design-informed health sciences education. His projects include Equitable Primary Care Design, Annual Wellness Visit service design, Family Medicine Team-based Care Design, Design studios for translation science recruitment and retention problems, Neonatal intensive care unit parent support platform design as well as patient-centered critical care (MICU) communication design to help families of MICU patients. Basapur is the founder of the Health and Design System Integration Lab at The Graduate College and leads Rush’s partnership with IIT for Design projects and other initiatives.

Publications

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Grants
  • NIH/CTSA Grant FP035829-M / 381810 ITM 2.0 at Univ. of Chicago (Sept. 2017 to June 2021)
    Systems Design Expert. Re-Engineering Translational Research at the University of Chicago. The research compares Design Science Methods with Quality Science Methods to trouble issues with Clinical Trials. The overall goal is to speed up the clinical trials to have a better timeline for drugs and technologies to reach the patient bedside.
  • P30 AG101061, Dr. Bennett (2017 – 2020), National Institute on Aging, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center
    Patient Oriented Research Designer, Rush University Medical Center
    The overall goal of the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center (Rush ADCC) is to provide an infrastructure to support cutting edge research on MCI, AD, and other dementias by providing researchers with clinical data and biologic specimens from persons with and without cognitive impairment for independently funded projects.
  • CDRN-1306-04737, Dr. Kho, Northwestern (2019 – 2020), Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
    Chicago Area Patient-Centered Clinical Outcomes Research Network (CAPriCORN)
    Systems and Process Designer, Rush University Medical Center
    Execute design studios for the coalition of 10 health systems to model how health care institutions in complex urban settings can overcome barriers of competition, care fragmentation and limited resources to develop, test and implement strategies to improve care for diverse populations and reduce health disparities.
  • RUMC Department Funding, Dr. Greenberg, (2018 – 2020)
    Co-Investigator. Understanding knowledge gap between family’s situation awareness and doctor/nurse’s understanding of family communication needs. Developing new interventions to keep families of critically ill MICU patients in the know and enabling participation in patient centered decision making.
  • Better Bike Share (NGO) Research Sponsorship (Jan, 2016 to June 2016)
    Principal Investigator. Building equitable and replicable Bike Share Systems. Deploy Human Systems Integration approach to design an equitable and replicable Bike Share System
Resources

Invited Presentations

  • User eXperience Design during COVID. Invited talk on UX Soup Podcast, 2020
  • Designing Undesired Services. Invited talk at Service Design Week, Chicago, Oct. 2019
  • Role of Usability in Systems Thinking. Invited talk at University of Aveiro, Portugal, 2018
  • Design and Innovation of Systems with Smart Technologies. Keynote speech at First Human Centered Design Conference Belgium. Leuven, Belgium, Nov. 17, 2016.
  • User Experience Research and Design in Energy Sustainability. Invited by Prof. Ryoichi Tamura, Industrial Design Program, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, 2015
  • User Experience Design and Research Methods. Invited talk at The Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University’s International Design Education, Suzhou City, Shenzhen, China, 2014

Patents

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  • System to generate a mixed media experience, US Patent 10,775,877, 2020
  • Interactive method and apparatus for mixed media narrative presentation, US Patent 10,585,546
  • Providing Secondary Content to Accompany Primary Content Item. CS39840 Issued by USPTO 2017
  • Media related Informational Processing System CS39139 Issued by USPTO 2016
  • Method of user interaction for showing and interacting with friend status on timeline. US20150089372A1 Published 2015

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