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I'm Captain Jessica Ellis . I'm a

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medical service corps officer with the

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9/11 Air Medical Staging Squadron and

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one of the Innovation Officers at Steel

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Cities Park . We recently had a

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meeting with the intent of accelerating

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medical innovation in the Pittsburgh

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region . And the kind of the motivation

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for the meeting was to really bring

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together these key players , break down

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the silos from defense um industry ,

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academia , our economic partners and

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look at how can we better align and

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organize our resources to come up with

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a mutually beneficial relationship so

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that we can show the value of , of our

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medics and our nurses and our docs and

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the medical missions that we have here

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in Pittsburgh and take advantage of the

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innovation here in the region .

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We have the top talent in the

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Pittsburgh region and this really gives

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us a voice and , you know , we're

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involved now in the conversation , it

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was a chance for us to voice our pain

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points um and particularly as the

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reserve component because we have

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different needs than active duty . And

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it was a way for the industry and

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academia to learn , you know , how to

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work with us and how can we better

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develop that relationship in the future

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and make it easier to work with each

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other . There are so many technologies

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out there , a lot of them that would

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benefit the military . So having access

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to the top technologies that fit the

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war fighter requirements and our needs .

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Um in the Air Force medical service .