Saturday, October 17th
10:30-12:00
Paul Revere Room
PANEL: Advancing Standards for Technologies that Enable Life Science Applications
organised by IEEE LSTC
- Session Chair: Carole C. Carey
Carole is IEEE EMBS and LSTC Standards Committee Chair. She has over 23 years experience as a former Scientific Reviewer at U.S. FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) in device regulatory, clinical investigational studies in cardiovascular areas, premarket application reviews, standards development and international affairs. She received her engineering degrees from Johns Hopkins U. and Loyola U. Carole served as a Mansfield Fellow in Japan, involved in global medical device regulatory harmonization, and is currently a regulatory consultant.
- Session Co-Chair: Bruce Hecht
Bruce is IEEE LSTC Standards Committee Member. He is a designer with 20 years experience in launching new technology. He earned BS/MS in EE from U. Waterloo, holds 5 US Patents and Six Sigma Black Belt certificate. As Staff Engineer at Analog Devices, Bruce is active with IEEE Life Sciences, and an ASP Fellow at MIT.
In this session, we will examine different technology domains that are poised to enable disruptive innovations in the life sciences and the standards that are necessary in each of those domains to collectively make innovations in both clinical care as well as clinical trials. These technologies can range from mobile platforms that can securely collect, store, and transmit patient data to medical devices that must satisfy critical regularly hurdles to algorithms that process data to deliver information products to users. Standards have played a critical role in each of these technology domains but must now be increasingly viewed across multiple domains to enable progress in highly multi-disciplinary domains. This is especially true in the life sciences where there is a growing intersection between the goals of life science and engineering organizations. We will view this topic from the perspectives of different contributors in this emerging area who have experience with key technologies and the standards that enable them, and are working to bring these technologies to the forefront of life science applications.
- Donna Hudson, University of California San Francisco
IEEE Life Sciences Technical Community (LSTC), Chair
“ Connecting IEEE and the Life Sciences Technical Community”
Donna received her PhD from UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science. She is Director of Academic Research and Technology, Professor of Clinical and Translational Informatics at University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and Professor in the Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, UC Berkeley/UCSF. Her interests include computer-assisted medical decision-making, biomedical signal analysis, neural network modeling, telemedicine for home healthcare, and complex analysis of biomedical data applied to cardiology, neurology, and cancer diagnosis and prognosis, and has authored two books.
- Nirmal Keshava, AstraZeneca
IEEE LSTC Standards Committee Member
“Pharmaceuticals & big data analytics: "Moving from Data to Knowledge to Value With Large-Scale Analytics"
Nirmal is a Senior Principal Informatics Scientist at AZ-Waltham in the Research and Development Information (RDI) organization, with a specific focus on advanced algorithms, analytics, and integration for heterogeneous types of biomedical data. He has a doctorate in electrical engineering from CMU with a focus on signal processing and machine learning algorithms. At AZ he is leading efforts to shape and execute large scale analytics challenges across all parts of the company and is developing novel models and algorithms to exploit a wide variety of data types.
- Carole Carey, C3-Carey Consultants, LLC
IEEE LSTC and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Standards Committee Chair
“Fostering Innovations in the Life Sciences: Get Involved with IEEE Standards Development”
Caole has over 23 years experience as a former Scientific Reviewer at U.S. FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) in device regulatory, clinical investigational studies in cardiovascular areas, premarket application reviews, standards development and international affairs. She received her engineering degrees from Johns Hopkins U. and Loyola U. Carole served as a Mansfield Fellow in Japan, involved in global medical device regulatory harmonization, and is currently a regulatory consultant.
- Joel Rodriguez, Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira Interior
IEEE LSTC, Co-chair Publications Committee
IEEE LSTC, Standards Committee Member
“Linking Standards and mHealth”
Joel is a professor in the Department of Informatics of the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, and researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal. He received MSc and PhD degrees in informatics engineering from the University of Beira Interior. His main research interests include sensor networks, e-health, e-learning, vehicular delay-tolerant networks, and mobile and ubiquitous computing. He is Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on eHealth, and ComSoc representative IEEE Biometrics Council. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal on E-Health and Medical Communications, the editor-in-chief of the Recent Advances on Communications and Networking Technology, and editorial board member of several journals.
- Nazim Agoulmine, University of Èvry Val d'Essonne
IEEE LSTC, Communications Society Representative
“LS Data Communication Technologies: Standards, Barriers and Challenges”
Nazim AGOULMINE is a full professor at the University of Evry Val d'Essonne and Head of the NuMa (Digital Technology and Mathematics) Department at the French National Research Funding Agency (ANR). Her is leading a research team on Cloud Computing, Autonomic Networking and Multimedia Management with applications in eHealth, Critical Systems and Smart Systems (part of COSMO group, IBISC research Lab). He is an area editor of International Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks and has also served as guest editor for IEEE Communication Magazine (special issues on e-health). He is serving as vice-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on eHealth and IEE LSTC ComSoc representative. He coauthored three books (network management, multimedia management and autonomic networks).
- Meghan Dierks, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Clinical Informatics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston MA.
Dr. Dierks conducts a broad range of both operational and research activities in the areas of Clinical Systems Analysis, Risk Analysis, Decision Analysis and Human Factors Engineering (emphasis on Cognitive Engineering and Macroergonomics). This work is highly cross-disciplinary, applying analytical and theoretical principles from the fields of systems engineering, computer science, cognitive science and decision theory to understand risk and performance in complex socio-technical clinical systems. Dr. Dierks is a board certified general surgeon who trained at Washington University, St. Louis, MO and the Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA. She completed the Harvard-MIT Program in BioMedical Informatics supported by an NLM-training grant and was the Douglas Porter Fellow in Informatics at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She has a baccalaureate degree from Brown University, and an MD from the University of Texas Health Science Center – Houston.
