{"id":5339,"date":"2020-04-22T10:24:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T15:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/?post_type=campus_story&#038;p=5339"},"modified":"2020-04-22T10:24:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T15:24:15","slug":"uw-eau-claire-mayo-clinic-and-community-makers-working-together-to-produce-face-shields-for-local-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/uw-eau-claire-mayo-clinic-and-community-makers-working-together-to-produce-face-shields-for-local-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"UW-Eau Claire, Mayo Clinic and community makers working together to produce face shields for local hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5340\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/04\/EAU_DougD-homepage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5340 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/04\/EAU_DougD-homepage-1024x439.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Dr. Doug Dunham, a professor of materials science and engineering and director of UW-Eau Claire\u2019s Materials Science and Engineering Center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Doug Dunham, a UW-Eau Claire professor of materials science and engineering and director of the university&#8217;s Materials Science and Engineering Center, pulls together a team to help health care workers in the Eau Claire area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When medical workers everywhere \u2014 including the Chippewa Valley \u2014 began pleading for more personal protective equipment as they battle COVID-19, Dr. Doug Dunham knew UW-Eau Claire\u2019s Materials Science and Engineering Center could help meet the needs of the local medical community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have 3D printers and we have people with expertise,\u201d says Dunham, a professor of materials science and engineering and director of the MSEC at UW-Eau Claire. \u201cWe just had to determine how we can use them most efficiently to help health care workers in the Chippewa Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To find out, he pulled together a team of UW-Eau Claire faculty and staff and then partnered with Mayo Clinic physicians and staff, and community makers to identify what they could do to have an immediate and significant impact on health care workers in and near Eau Claire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy coordinating with physicians and others, we will have a much better end result,\u201d Dunham says of the initiative. \u201cThey\u2019re helping us establish our priorities as we decide where to focus our efforts first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwec.edu\/news\/news\/uw-eau-claire-mayo-clinic-and-community-makers-working-together-to-produce-face-shields-for-local-hospitals-4113\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When medical workers everywhere \u2014 including the Chippewa Valley \u2014 began pleading for more personal protective equipment as they battle COVID-19, Dr. Doug Dunham knew UW-Eau Claire\u2019s Materials Science and Engineering Center could help meet the needs of the local medical community. \u201cWe have 3D printers and we have people with expertise,\u201d says Dunham, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","institution":[96],"story_category":[],"class_list":["post-5339","campus_story","type-campus_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","institution-uw-eau-claire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story\/5339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/campus_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=5339"},{"taxonomy":"story_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_category?post=5339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}