The Challenge of Sepsis: Solving This Global Health Problem Requires Cross- Disciplinary Innovation

Sepsis is one of the largest health crises of our time, and an ideal group to fight it are the innovators who comprise IEEE. That is the assessment of Timothy G. Buchman ( Figure 1 ), Ph.D., M.D., an expert on the infection-triggered condition that each year claims the lives of more than 11 million people worldwide, including more than 350,000 [1] in the United States. “IEEE is a wonderful catalytic environment for biomedical specialists, engineers, computational scientists, epidemiologists—lots of people in different disciplines—to say, ‘What can we do today?’ The next breakthrough technology is already on somebody’s lab bench. It just hasn’t been connected to the problem,” he remarked.