Texas A&M Health Science Center, in a partnership with the Houston Methodist Hospital, plans a hybrid Engineering-Medicine program to launch in the fall of 2017.

This is a new take on what many have seen as stressing the role of biomedical engineering in healthcare, so these physician-engineers will work to devise technology that will transform medical delivery through telemedicine, limb regeneration, organ growth, and more. This is a welcome evolution, as many incredibly bright physicians and brilliant engineers never learn how to actually shepherd their ideas from a sketch on a napkin to reality; this program aims to teach them how to do this. Look for innovations from this new program.