UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering - Autumn Research Symposium
01 October 2018, 9:30 am–8:00 pm

This October we will be hosting an Autumn Research Symposium at the Wellcome Collection, with structured sessions based around the IHE themes: prevention, monitoring, diagnostics, therapies and interventions, rehabilitation and assistive technologies.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering
Location
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Wellcome Collection183 Euston RoadLondonNW1 2BEUnited Kingdom
The day will include talks and posters from engineers, scientists and clinicians spanning all career stages within the field of healthcare engineering, followed by networking drinks, prize-giving and research demonstrations in the evening.
This is a free to attend event. To register your attendance, you must sign up via our Eventbrite Page.
Agenda
9.45 - 10.00 Introduction & welcome
David Lomas - Vice Provost (Health)
Nigel Titchener-Hooker - Dean of Engineering Sciences
Rebecca Shipley - Director of the Institute of Healthcare Engineering
10.00 - 10.45 Prevention (chair: Frederik Barkhof)
Predicting the individual treatment response in MS using machine learning
Olga Ciccarelli - UCL Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Genomics-guided drug development - from genes to medicines
Aroon Hingorani - UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science
A Breath of Fresh Air (Engineering Better Solutions for Respiratory Health)
John Hurst - UCL Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Free Hospital
Joseph Jacob – Centre for Medical Image Computing, UCL Department of Respiratory Medicine
10.45 - 11.30 Monitoring (chair: Danny Alexander)
Testing Times: Bringing mobile health and point-of-care diagnostic tests to the field
Rachel McKendry - iSense EPSRC IRC in Early Warning Sensing Systems for Infectious Diseases, London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL Division of Medicine
Disability innovations: monitoring beyond clinical environments
Cathy Holloway – UCL Global Disability Innovation Hub
Medical sensors for monitoring vital signs, device status, medical compliance and more
Xiao Liu - UCL Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
Nanoengineered sensors and coatings in healthcare engineering
Manish Tiwari - Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS), Nanoengineered Systems Laboratory UCL Department of Mechanical Engineering
11.30 - 12.30 Early Career Research flash talks
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch & Early Career Research poster session
13.30 - 14.30 Diagnostics: (chair: Adrien Desjardins)
Novel imaging, challenges and opportunities for clinical translation at UCL
Shonit Punwani – Centre for Medical Imaging, University College of London Hospital
Medical imaging, modelling, and AI at CMIC
Danny Alexander - Centre for Medical Image Computing, UCL Department of Computer Science
AI-driven digital pathology for clinical decision support
Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes - UCL Department of Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence in Ophthalmology
Pearse Keane - UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital
Fluidics for healthcare and point of care diagnostics
Stavroula Balbani - UCL Department of Mechanical Engineering
14.30 - 15.30 Therapies & Interventions (chairs: Qasim Rafiq & Danail Stoyanov)
Image-guided laparoscopic liver surgery
Brian Davidson - UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences
Smart Liver: Augmented reality for laparoscopic liver surgery
Matt Clarkson – Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS), UCL Department of Medical Physics
Predicting tumour response to therapy with machine learning, medical imaging and computational modelling
Simon Walker-Samuel – Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, UCL Division of Medicine
Manufacturing for Healthcare
Mohan Edirisinghe - UCL Department of Mechanical Engineering
Commercialising allogeneic and autologous cell therapies: cost of goods considerations
Suzanne Farid - UCL Department of Biochemical Engineering
15.30 - 16.00 Refreshments
16.00 - 17.00 Rehabilitative & Assistive Technologies (chair: Cathy Holloway)
Engineering pain relief through sensory augmentation
Rui Loureiro and Samantha (Rui’s patient) - Aspire Centre for Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology, UCL Institute of Orthopaedics
Nerve injury - lessons from patients and practice
Tom Quick - Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Nervous system tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
James Phillips – UCL Centre for Nerve Engineering, Department of Pharmacology, UCL School of Pharmacy
17.30 - 18.00 Prizes for best ECR talk, best ECR poster, best global healthcare engineering ECR talk/poster, best research image
Dame Nicola Brewer - Vice Provost International
Graham Hart - Dean of Population Health Sciences
Geraint Rees - Dean of Life Sciences
Alan Thompson - Dean of Brain Sciences
Nigel Titchener-Hooker - Dean of Engineering Sciences
18.00 - 20.00 Drinks and research demonstrations
Research Image Competition - £200 prize
It's time to get creative! We are also holding a competition to find the Best Research Image
We want to see images that are a direct result of your research, represent aspects of your work, or show the faces behind your research project. Images will be judged on their quality, visual impact, creativity and ability to communicate and engage people with your research. Find out more here.