Week 1 of Senior Project – Shaheer Rehman

Shaheer R -

Hello again everyone!

Week 1 of my project was a week in which a lot of things changed. First off, I decided to change the final product of my project slightly. I will still be doing the same thing as before which is shadowing a doctor throughout his day of diagnosing and talking about diseases, and then explaining how they diagnose and treat these diseases. However now, I have decided to pick a specific disease and work with it.

The disease I chose was Obstructive Sleep Apnea(OSA). The reason why I chose this disease is because it is not only very common in the site I am working at, but it is also a pulmonary disease that is very well researched. My new plan is to work with this disease and through both my experiences at the office and my own research at home, I want to understand how OSA and its various treatments work. I will be using both my own experiences with the patients, as well as my research online. By the end, I hope to find a potential gap that I see in the treatment and try to come up with a theoretical solution(s) for this gap. Currently, I haven’t chosen one, but a good example could be the problems in the masks for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure(CPAP), which is one of the most popular OSA treatments.

Apart from that, in my first week, I got to see and observe many cool patients and cases and learned a lot about pulmonology, sleep medicine, and diagnosing diseases as a whole. One of the coolest pieces of equipment I saw was a speech-to-text microphone that the doctor was using. An image is attached below, and essentially doctors are able to use these to speak into them and then it automatically types out what they are saying. I have never seen something like this before and it was really cool to see. Other than that, I am excited for the future of my project and everything that is to come with it.

Thank you for reading!

Shaheer

 

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    aswita_k
    Hey Shaheer! I think it was interesting that you chose Obstructive Sleep Apnea as the disease to focus on. You mentioned that you were looking into bridging the treatments gaps and I was wondering if you were looking into improving current models such as CPAP or if you were looking at other medicines that could remedy this issue?
    February 14, 2025 at 11:36 am - Reply
    collin_h
    Hi Shaheer! I think it is awesome that you are focusing on one disease as it will increase the depth of which you can explore and I am very excited to continue learning about it. Also is important to continue improving treatment for our patients so I wish you the best of luck on your work of improving patient care for OSA. Have you started to notice any small changes that you would wish to implement?
    February 14, 2025 at 12:55 pm - Reply
    cameron_m
    This sounds very interesting (and something that is very relevant to a lot of people). From shadowing this past week, you mentioned a new implementation that seemed effective when meeting patients. Were there any drawbacks/inconveniences that you ran into?
    February 16, 2025 at 8:29 am - Reply
      shaheer_r
      I didn’t really run into any major complications yet, but I definitely expect some in the future when trying to fill the gaps I talked about.
      February 17, 2025 at 9:13 am - Reply
    jessie_z
    Hi Shaheer, you mentioned that you were focusing on certain problems in the masks for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure. What are the problems with this technology you find most disconcerting?
    February 17, 2025 at 10:55 am - Reply

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