At the request of Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, and under the leadership of Ilya Avdeev (top left), a UWM team of engineering, nursing and art students created a full-sized, low-resolution prototype of a mobile health clinic in fall 2022. Avdeev, is director of innovation at the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and affiliated faculty member at the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Kern Institute.
Based on this design, Froedtert & the Medical College plan to roll out two 32’ mobile health clinics in fall 2023 to serve the needs of Black and Latino women in Milwaukee’s northwest and south neighborhoods. Services would include mammography, colon cancer screenings, well-baby checks, and management of chronic conditions including asthma, diabetes and obesity.
In this article published by the Kern Institute, Avdeev details the process of designing the clinic using a human-centered approach, which involved more than 100 faculty members and students from UWM, community leaders, patients, and clinical and operational staff from Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin.