Future Directions, Technologies, Standards and Applications
June 19-20, 2011 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute Rd Worcester, MA, USA
THE RECEPTION Welcome by the sponsors Odeum A, WPI Campus Center Sponsored by
Continental Breakfast and Registration
Opening Remarks Kaveh Pahlavan, General Chair Provost Eric Overstrom, WPI
Keynote Speaker John Hines, Center Chief Technologist, NASA Ames Research Center
"Body Area Networks and Wireless Medical Monitoring"
Kathy Chester, Senior Vice President Regulatory and Quality, St. Jude Medical's"Regulatory Challenges for the Wireless Health Industry "
Charles Farlow, Senior Program Manager, Medtronic, Inc."An Overview of the Medical Device Radiocommunications Service (MedRadio) and Future Telemetry Considerations"
Hakan Ohlgren, Principal Development Engineer , St. Jude Medical’s"The evolution of Medical implant telemetry and Body Area Network"
Brian Russell, CEO, Zephyr Technology"Practicality of BAN for Physiological Monitoring and Various Applications"
David Cave, Professor, UMass Medical School/Given Imaging"Wireless Video Capsule Endoscopy"
Chris Cooper, Professor, University of California Los Angeles Medical Center"Physiological Health Assessment Worcester Polytechnic Institute System for Emergency Responders"
Hanif Butt, Dental School, Harvard University"3D Localization of the Dental Occlusal Plane Using WiFi Technology"
Marshall Cross, CEO, MegaWave"WPAN-UWB Transmission Loss Measurements Around/Near A Soldier's Protective Vest"
Welcoming Remarks at Lunch Time Jalal Mapar, DHS Science and Technology Luncheon Keynote Speech William J. Heetderks, Director, (NIH/NIBIB) Extramural Science Programs
"Opportunities for Patient-Centered Healthcare"
Arthur Astrin, Chair, IEEE802.15.6 Body Area Networks "Body Area Network (BAN) Standardization and Future Applications"
Raymond Krasinski, Senior Manager, Standardization, Philips "Medical Body Area Networking (MBAN) IEEE 802.15.4j Standardization"
Nathaniel Sims, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital "Advancing Safety in Medical Technology"
Anthony Delli Colli, Vice-Chair, Market Adoption Working Group, Continua Health Alliance"Continua Health Alliance BAN Technology and Application Workshop"
Naveen Verma, Assistant Professor, Princeton University "From Embedded DSP to Embedded AI:making chronic patient monitoring intelligent and scalable"
Maysam Ghovanloo, Georgia Institute of Technology"Connecting the Inside and Outside Worlds: Polytechnic Institute Wideband Communication Across the Skin"
Maxim Batalin, Senior Technology, University of California, Los Angeles"PHASER: Physiological Health Assessment System for Emergency Responders"
Ada Poon, Assistant Professor, Stanford University"Future Implantable Systems"
Kaveh Pahlavan / Sergey Makarov, Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute" Channel Characterization for RF Localization Inside Human Body"
Jim Duckworth, Associate Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute"Integrated First Responder Location and Physiological Monitoring"
