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personnel. Te Warfighter Brain Health Project Management Office was charged with determining the operational feasibil- ity and suitability of two medical devices designed to identify those at risk for a brain bleed after head trauma. Sanjakdar was selected for the mission because of her medical, acquisition and operational background.
Taking charge of the program shortly after initiation, Sanjak- dar quickly developed the plan for equipping and training the units, determined the necessary points of contact at the U.S. Central Command operations center, and designed the manner and approach for obtaining user feedback to inform the future acquisition strategy. She successfully equipped 17 units with 55 devices and conducted monthly progress reviews to receive feed- back from the field.
Although Sanjakdar held teleconferences to provide the initial training and to answer preliminary questions from the user group, she said the only true way to perform a field evaluation is for a member of the project management office to meet face-to-face with those who will be using the devices.
“Seeing the product in use firsthand, you may notice something that the user may not necessarily think to convey,” she explained. “As a product manager, your perspective will differ from the user, so seeing the device in action will guide your understanding of how it fits into the operational setting. Being in the deployed envi- ronment will also inspire your work towards future products that may be a better fit for the end user.”
Sanjakdar truly believes in the benefits of incorporating this crit- ical component into product development across the board, and she feels it is very helpful to build strong relationships with users at all levels of product development.
“While there, we wanted to conduct various interviews and surveys, so we brought in a fellow research psychologist from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research,” she said. “He assisted with the gathering of data and is now leading the final anal- ysis and report being generated on the outcomes of this data collection.”
Sanjakdar praises the ability of the Rapid Equipping Force to make possible these focused “small-equipping actions,” pushing critical medical products and devices to users for testing, which can help to ensure the health and readiness of our nation’s military personnel at home and abroad. Trough this type of initial user assessment, these items are vetted in their intended environment,
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Sanjakdar, left, observes and answers questions as medical providers use devices meant to detect traumatic brain injuries in patients at the Fenty Role 2 medical facility in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
Although both products were commercially available off the shelf, the majority of clinical research had been conducted at trauma centers rather than in the field.
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