Bionic breast project restores touch and sensibility for mastectomy survivors
The University of Chicago - 07-Nov-2023Restoring touch and confidence with a revolutionary medical breakthrough
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Professor and practicing physician at the University of Chicago
Stacy Tessler Lindau is a tenured professor and practicing physician at the University of Chicago. Her work and interdisciplinary lab focus on engineering solutions to injustice with the patients and communities they serve. She is also the founder and chief innovation officer of NowPow, LLC, a mission-driven IT company, and president of MAPSCorps, a community asset mapping organization. Catalyzed by a 2012-2015 Health Care Innovation Award from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, these organizations close the information gap about vital community resources while creating meaningful jobs, especially for youth. A practicing gynecologist, Stacy leads the Program in Integrative Sexual Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine, which seeks to preserve sexual function in women affected by cancer. She is director of WomanLab, a virtual platform to promote preservation and recovery of female sexual function after cancer and across the life span and she was founding chair of the Scientific Network on Female Sexual Health and Cancer. Stacy was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Chicago (’02) and served the program’s National Advisory Committee. She is a Fellow of the second class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
Visit website: https://biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/faculty/stacy-lindau-md
Details last updated 08-Nov-2023
Restoring touch and confidence with a revolutionary medical breakthrough