Margot S. Damaser, Ph.D.

Cleveland Clinic is first to use the device, known formerly as the UroMonitor

A novel, wireless ambulatory urodynamic system, engineered and tested by Cleveland Clinic researchers and physicians, is one step closer to commercialization. The device, now known as the Glean™ Urodynamics System, a product by Bright Uro, received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and was used for the first time in a Cleveland Clinic patient. These developments follow several years of clinical data demonstrating its safety and feasibility in women with overactive bladder (OAB).

The device was conceptualized by Cleveland Clinic biomedical engineer Margot Damaser, PhD, over 10 years ago to improve conventional urodynamics, the standard approach to bladder testing. The challenges of a catheter-based diagnostic approach are many, she explains… Continue reading.

The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR®) has selected two chairs to head its Interdisciplinary Network on Urological Health In Women. Please join SWHR in congratulating Dr. Margot Damaser, PhD, Professor of Molecular Medicine in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, and Dr. Elizabeth Mueller, MD, MSME, Division and Fellowship Director of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

Dr. Damaser received her PhD in Bioengineering from the joint program of the University of California San Francisco and Berkeley. She is a Professor of Molecular Medicine in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and has joint appointments in the Biomedical Engineering Department and the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute at Cleveland Clinic. She also is a Senior Research Career Scientist in the Advanced Platform Technology Center of Excellence of the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. She has conducted research on urodynamics and the causes of and treatments for urinary incontinence for more than 20 years. She has developed novel devices for improved diagnosis and treatment of incontinence and has developed and used animal models to test novel therapies with a focus on neuroregeneration.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Margot S. Damaser, Ph.D., Staff (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) and Research Career Scientist (Cleveland Louis Stokes VA Medical Center), Biomedical Engineering (CCF) and Advanced Platform Technology Rehab R&D Center (VAMC), Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Cleveland Louis Stokes VA Medical Center, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Damaser was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For outstanding contributions to the engineering of innovative models and devices to diagnose, treat, and rehabilitate female pelvic floor disorders..