ALOPECIA DATABASEPeter Claise & Barbara Visher

Vanderbilt University Department of Biomedical Engineering

Advisors: Dr. Lloyd KingDr. Jennifer DempseyDr. Sara Whitehead

My Head is FREEZING!!• Male Pattern Baldness• Alopecia Areata

– ~equal in males and females– 1.7% of the population– 4 Million in the U.S.A. – Childhood– Psychologically devastating

• Alopicia Totalis/Universalis

TIME TABLEDec Jan Feb Mar Apr

Alopecia background xxxresearch

Assess Client needs xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx& possible solutions

Familiarize ourselves xxx xxxwith Access

Develop database xxx xxxtemplate

Debug/Finalize xxx xxxWritten Report xxx

GOALS• Accessible

• Aesthetically pleasing

• Easily Manipulated

• Organize, store and compile

• Assess genotypic correlations

WORK TO DATE• Background

Research - Hair Loss

• Assessment of Customer Needs

• Familiarized with VA computer network

CURRENT WORK• Developing programming

skills using Microsoft Access

• Implementing client questionnaire into database framework

• Producing database template for advisor approval

FUTURE WORK• Finalizing fields of Database

• Creating password protection

• Aesthetically pleasing platform

• Debugging

• Possible Web access

References• http://www.alopeciaareata.com/default2.a

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• Dr. Russ Waitman

• Wempen, Faithe. “Microsoft Access 2002: fast & easy”. Prima Publishing, CA. 2001.

• http://images.google.com/images?q=baldness&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=20&sa=N