Workshop Context
As part of the larger healthcare transformation to improve health care and health outcomes, increase efficiency and reduce costs, application of digital health technologies and tools is increasingly having a greater impact on patients, providers and payers than ever before. To accelerate research in this area, a Digital Health Workshop is planned to bring together the expertise of clinicians, engineers, industry and government agencies to address issues in healthcare delivery using digital health technologies.
Goals of the Workshop
- Significantly expand the “network connectivity.” The workshop will connect digital health needs with digital health innovators. It is well-recognized that every part of the healthcare system could benefit from digital transformation but we will need to invent the pathways by forming many new teams around new collaborative research projects, that will be seeded through multi-sources of funding.
- Sow the seeds for larger efforts. By increasing the network size, through seed funding, our goal is to prepare teams to ultimately successfully seek larger funding from NIH, NSF, ARPA-H, AHA, foundations etc.
- Accelerate translation: It is crucial to move research results into clinical application that can be scaled, and hence we will engage entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs in the overall effort.
Speakers
Funding Agencies
Zane Arp, PhD
- Director, Division of BioMedical Physics
- U.S Food and Drug Administration
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Patrick Dunn, PhD
- Center for Health Technology & Innovation, American Heart Association (AHA)
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Randy Duran, PhD
- Program Director, Engineering Research Centers, Division of Engineering
- National Science Foundation
- NSF Profile
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Dev Mittar, PhD
- Program Officer, Division of Research, Innovation and Ventures (DRIVe)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Healthcare Ecosystem Partners
Jacob A. Childers, MD
- Urgent Care Physician, Austin Regional Clinic
- Medical Director, NormanMD Telehealth
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Brennan Torstrick, PhD
- President of Product & Market Strategy and Co-founder, Huxley Medical, Inc.
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Mary Laura Lind Thomas
- Professor, School of Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
- Co-founder, Sequitur Health Corporation
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Engineering Faculty
Gerard Cote, Ph.D
- Director, PATHS-UP
- Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Biosensors, Wearables, Chronic & Infectious Diseases
- Texas A&M University Profile
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Balakrishna Haridas, Ph.D
- Professor of Practice, Biomedical Engineering
- Medical Devices, Surgery, Endovascular, Biomaterials
- Texas A&M University Profile
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Hatice Ceylan Koydemir, Ph.D
- Thrust 2 Co-Lead, PATHS-UP
- Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Biosensors, Microfabrication, Lab-On-a-Chip, BioMEMs, Non-Invasive Diagnostics
- Texas A&M University Profile
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Samuel Mabbott, Ph.D
- Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Nanoparticles for Biomedical Sensors and Point-of-Care Technologies
- Texas A&M University Profile
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Limei Tian, Ph.D
- Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Flexible/Wearable Biomaterials, Biosensors, Medical Devices, Micro & Nanotechnology Devices
- Texas A&M University Profile
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Farzan
Sasangohar, Ph.D
- Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Human Decision-Making and Support in Healthcare
- Texas A&M University Profile
Soaram Kim, Ph.D
- Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Wearable Electronics and Remote Sensing
- Texas A&M University Profile
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Bobak
Mortazavi, Ph.D
- Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
- End-to-End Smart Systems to Improve Patient Care
- Texas A&M University Profile
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Theodora Chaspari, Ph.D
- Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
- Biomedical Signal Processing, Wearable Applications
- Texas A&M University Profile
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Ashutosh Sabharwal, Ph.D
- Thrust 4 Co-Lead, PATHS-UP
- Chair and Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Data Science for Diabetes and Health
- Rice University Profile
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Ashok Veeraraghavan, Ph.D
- Thrust 3 Co-Lead
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science
- Computational imaging and computational sensing
- Rice University Profile
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Akane Sano, Ph.D
- Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Machine Learning/AI for Health
- Rice University Profile
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Lei Li, Ph.D
- Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Wearable Photo-Acoustic Imaging
- Rice University Profile
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Momona Yamagami, Ph.D
- Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Human-Machine Interface for Health/Accessibility
- Rice University Profile
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Kaiyuan Yang, Ph.D
- Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Secure and Intelligent Embedded Systems for Health
- Rice University Profile
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Vladimir Braverman, Ph.D
- Professor, Computer Science
- Algorithms for Applications in Machine Learning and Single-Cell Genomics
- Rice University Profile
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Guha Balakrishnan, Ph.D
- Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Computer Vision and Machine Learning
- Rice University Profile
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Jessica Ramella-Roman, Ph.D
- Thrust 3 Co-Lead, PATHS-UP
- Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Medical Photonics Laboratory
- Florida International Unversity Profile
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Joshua Hutcheson, Ph.D
- Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Engineered Tissue Model Systems
- Florida International University Profile
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Chunlei (Peggy) Wang, Ph.D
- Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering
- Florida International University Profile
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Dino Di Carlo, PhD
- Deputy Director and Thrust 1 Co-Lead, PATHS-UP
- Professor, Bioengineering
- Microfluidics, Microfabrication, Nanotechnologies
- University of California, Los Angeles Profile
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Aydogan Ozcan, PhD
- Thrust 2 Co-Lead, PATHS-UP
- Chancellor’s Professor and HHMI Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Deep Learning Optics& Optical Computing, Computational Imaging and Microscopy, Bio-Sensing and Mobile Health
- University of California, Los Angeles Profile
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