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October 10, 2011 | Pre-Conference Industry Tutorials

8:00 - Registration
8:45 - Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:00 – Challenges of ECG Design – William Crone, Analog Devices
9:45 – Wireless Technology in Healthcare:  Low Power Processors -Rajesh Verma, Texas Instruments
10:30 – BREAK
10:45 – Conformal Electronics to Enable Novel Form Factors in Wireless Health Devices – Jeffrey Carbeck, mc10
11:30 – Using MEMS Motion Sensing Technology to Differentiate Healthcare Device Designs -Bob Scannell, Analog Devices  & Tom O’Dwyer, Analog Devices

12:15 – LUNCH
1:15 – Wireless Technology for Medical Telemetry Systems -Reghu Rajan, Zarlink
2:00 – Wireless Technology in Healthcare:  Radios and Protocols -Iboun Sylla, Texas Instruments
2:45 – BREAK
3:00 – Optimizing Ultrasound Systems using Integrated Receivers -Gina Kelso, Analog Devices
3:45 – Application Specific Lithium Cell Selection and Battery Pack Design -Eddie Forouzan, ARTIN Engineering & Consulting Group
4:30 – Closing Remarks and Discussion

October 11-13, 2011 | Conference Sessions

Tuesday, October 11th

7:00 – Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:45 – Opening Remarks:  Eric Topol, M.D. – Executive Chair, Wireless Health 2011; Director – Scripps Translational Science Institute; Chief Academic Officer – Scripps Health; Vice-Chairman of the Board & Chief Innovation Officer, West Wireless Health Institute; The Gary and Mary West Endowed Chair of Innovative Medicine
9:00 – Keynote:  Dr. Paul Jacobs – Chairman & CEO, Qualcomm
Wireless: A Platform for Innovation
9:45 – Keynote:  Bruce Dobkin, MD – UCLA Medical Center
Developing and Testing Wireless Sensors Within Real-World Clinical Trials and Everyday Care
10:30 – BREAK
11:00 – Paper Session #1:  Wireless Health in the Field: Individual Condition Assessment

  • 1.1 Enabling Longitudinal Assessment of Ankle-Foot Orthosis Efficacy for Children with Cerebral Palsy.  Shanshan Chen, Christopher L. Cunningham, Bradford C. Bennett, John Lach
  • 1.2  Wireless Monitoring of Postoperative Respiratory Complications.  Andrew Bates, D. K. Arvin, Janek Mann
  • 1.3  Continuous, Non-Invasive Assessment of Agitation in Dementia Using Inertial Body Sensors.  Azziza Bankole, Martha Anderson, Aubrey Knight, Kyunghui Oh, Tonya Smith-Jackson, Mark A. Hanson, Adam T. Barth, John Lach

12:30 – LUNCH
1:45 – Panel:  Innovations for Reduction in Heart Failure Readmission

Moderator:  Majid Sarrafzadeh, PhD – Co-Director, UCLA Wireless Health Institute
Panelists:

  • Patricia Hines, PhD, RN – Vice President, The Camden Group
  • Dawn Lombarado, MD – Director, UC Irvine Heart Failure Program
  • Michael Ong, MD, PhD – UCLA Internal Medicine

2:45 – Demo Presentation Session #1:  Fast-Paced Presentations of Devices

  • 1.1  Demo of the Medical Device Dongle: An Open-Source Standards-Based Platform for Interoperable Medical Device Connectivity.  Philip Asare, Danyang Cong, Santosh Vattam, BaekGyu Kim, Shan Lin, Oleg Sokolsky, Margaret Mullen-Fortino, Insup Lee
  • 1.2  A Wireless Biomedical Handheld Instrument for Evidence-Based Detection of Pressure Ulcers.  Frank Wang, Yeung Lam, Alireza Mehrnia, Barbara Bates-Jensen, Majid Sarrafzadeh, William Kaiser
  • 1.3  An ECG Patch Combining a Customized Ultra-Low-Power ECG SoC with Bluetooth Low Energy for Long Term Ambulatory Monitoring.  Marco Altini, Salvatore Polito, Julien Penders, Hyejung Kim, Nick Van Helleputte, Sunyoung Kim, Firat Yazicioglu
  • 1.4  Body-Worn, Non-Invasive Sensor for Monitoring Stroke Volume, Cardiac Output and Cardiovascular Reserve.  Isaac Henry, Don Bernstein, Matt Banet, Jane Mulligan, Steve Moulton, Greg Grudic, Victor Convertino
  • 1.5  A Micropower Integrated Platform for Wireless Multichannel Recording of ECoG Activity.  Mohsen Mollazadeh, Elliot Greenwald, Marc Schieber, Nitish Thakor, Gert Cauwenberghs
  • 1.6  PAMSys: Long-term Physical Activity Monitoring with Single Wearable Motion Sensor.  Bor-rong Chen, Bryan Kate
  • 1.7  Converting Body Heat Into Reliable Energy for Powering Physiological Wireless Sensors.  Ingo Stark
  • 1.8  Photoplethysmograph (PPG) Derived Heart Rate (HR) Acquisition Using Android Smart Phone.  Mathew Gregoski
  • 1.9  mobileSpiro: Portable Open-Interface Spirometry for Android.  Siddharth Gupta, Peter Chang, Nonso Anyigbo, Ashutosh Sabharwal
  • 1.10  Modeling Human Gait Using a Kalman Filter to Measure Walking Distance. Kaushik Nagarajan; Nicholas Gans; Roozbeh Jafari

3:45 – BREAK
4:15 – Panel:  Health and Wellness Connectivity Services in Vehicles on the Go

Moderator:  Robert B. McCray, President & CEO, Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance
Panelists:

  • H. James Dallas – Sr. Vice President, Quality and Operations, Medtronic
  • Anand Iyer – President & COO, WellDoc
  • K. Venkatesh Prasad – Group & Senior Technical Leader, Vehicle Design and Infotronics, Ford Research and Innovation

5:00 – Reception in the Demo Pavilion.


Wednesday, October 12th

7:00 - Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 – Opening Remarks
8:45 – Keynote:   Farnam Jahanian, PhD – Director, National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (NSF CISE)
9:30 – Paper Session #2:  Advances in Biomedical Sensing for Wireless Health

  • 2.1  Motion Artifact Reduction in Ambulatory ECG Monitoring: An Integrated System Approach.  Iñaki Romero, Sunyoung Kim, Torfinn Berset, Nick Van Helleputte, Dilpreet S Buxi, Lindsay Brown, Hyejung Kim, Chris Van Hoof, Firat Yazicioglu, Julien Penders
  • 2.2  Filters That Remember: Duty Cycling Analog Circuits for Long Term Medical Monitoring. Zainul M Charbiwala, Jonathan Friedman, Benjamin Kuris, Mani B. Srivastava

10:30 – BREAK
11:00 – Paper Session #3:  Context Guided Wireless Health Monitoring and Classification

  • 3.1  Context Guided and Personalized Activity Classification System.  James Y. Xu, Yuwen Sun, Zhao Wang, William Kaiser, Gregory J. Pottie
  • 3.2  Rejection of Irrelevant Human Actions in Real-time Hidden Markov Model Based Recognition Systems for Wearable Computers.  Jerry J Mannil, Mohammad-Mahdi Bidmeshki, Roozbeh Jafari
  • 3.3  Grammar-Based, Posture- and Context-Cognitive Detection for Falls with Different Activity Levels.  Qiang Li, John A. Stankovic

12:30 – LUNCH
1:45 – Keynote:  Chris Van Hoof, PhD – Director HUMAN++, IMEC
Game-changing opportunities for the future of medicine: Will you still need your Doctor?
2:30 – Demo Presentation Session #2:  Fast-Paced Presentations of Systems

  • 2.1  A Multi-modal Emotion Recognition System for Persistent and Non-invasive Personal Health Monitoring.  Xiaoqing Liu, Lei Zhang, Jacob Yadegar
  • 2.2  Sensor Fusion for Remote Health Assessment.  Tejaswi Tamminedi, Lei Zhang, Priya Ganapathy
  • 2.3  StressBar: A System for Stress Information Collection.  Dajun Lu, Guoxing Zhan, Shinan Wang, Weisong Shi, Clairy Wiholm, Bengt B. Arnetz
  • 2.4  Long-term Monitoring of COPD Using Wearable Sensors.  Bor-rong Chen, Shyamal Patel, Luca Della Toffola, Paolo Bonato
  • 2.5  Energy-efficient Long Term Physiological Monitoring.  Ayan Banerjee, Sidharth Nabar, Sandeep Gupta, Radha Poovendran
  • 2.6  Gaming for Upper Extremities Rehabilitation.  Ming-Chun Huang, Ethan Chen, Wenyao Xu, Majid Sarrafzadeh, Belinda Lange, Chein-Yen Chang
  • 2.7  Demonstration of Sleep Monitoring and Caregiver Displays for Depression Monitoring.  Robert F Dickerson, Timothy W Hnat, Enamul Hoque, John Stankovic
  • 2.8  Rehabilitation Exercise Feedback on Android Platform.  Brian Caulfield, Jason Blood, Barry Smyth, Daniel Kelly
  • 2.9  LEGSys: Wireless Gait Evaluation System Using Wearable Sensors.  Bor-rong Chen
  • 2.10  In Home Assessment and Management of Health and Wellness with BeClose Ambient, Artificial Intelligence.  Mark A Hanson, Adam Barth, Christopher Silverman
  • 2.11  Fault Tolerant Glucose Sensor Readout and Recalibration.  Zeljko Zilic; Katarzyna Radecka

3:30 – BREAK
4:00 – Paper Session #4:  Inference-Guided Wireless Health

  • 4.1  Empath: a Continuous Remote Emotional Health Monitoring System for Depressive Illness  Robert F Dickerson, Eugenia I. Gorlin, John A. Stankovic 
  • 4.2  mConverse: Inferring Conversation Episodes From Respiratory Measurements Collected in the Field  Md Mahbubur Rahman, Amin A Ali, Kurt Plarre, Mustafa al’Absi, Emre Ertin, Santosh Kumar

5:00 – Keynote:  Gene Frantz – TI Principal Fellow & Business Development Manager, Digital Signal Processing, Semiconductor Group, Texas Instruments
Health – Don’t Leave Home Without It
5:45 – Reception in the Demo Pavilion.


Thursday, October 13th

7:00 – Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 – Opening Remarks & Award Presentations
9:00 – Panel:  New Initiatives and Program Opportunities in Wireless Health Research

Moderator:  John Lach, PhD – Associate Professor, Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia
Panelists:

  • Helen Gill, PhD – Program Director, Cyber-Physical Systems, National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Wendy Nilsen, PhD – Health Science Administrator, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Misha Pavel, PhD – Program Director, Smart Health & Wellbeing, National Science Foundation (NSF)

10:00 – Paper Session #5:  Energy, Computing, and Bandwidth Resource Efficiency in Wireless Health Systems

  • 5.1  Resource-efficient and Reliable Long Term Wireless Monitoring of the Photoplethysmographic Signal.  Sidharth Nabar, Ayan Banerjee, Sandeep Gupta, Radha Poovendran
  • 5.2  Lightweight Power Aware and Scalable Movement Monitoring for Wearable Computers: a Mining and Recognition Technique At the Fingertip of Sensors.  Vitali Loseu, Jerry J. Mannil, Roozbeh Jafari

11:00 – BREAK
11:30 – Wireless Health Vanguard Papers

  • 1.1  Feature Extractors: Flexible Integration of Cameras and Sensors for End-User Programming of Assistive Monitoring Systems.  Alex Edgcomb, Frank Vahid
  • 1.2  Collaborative Virtual Rehabilitation Interface with Home Treatment Integration.  Sai Moturu; John Moore; Franklin Moss

12:00 – Keynote:  William Riley, PhD – Program Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; Chair, NIH mHealth Inter-Institute Interest Group (IIIG)

Where’s the Output? Challenges in Evaluating and Implementing Wireless Health Solutions
12:45 – Closing Remarks & Conference Adjourn