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Mobile health diagnostics with applications in medicine
25 February 2020, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
A colloquium with Dr Hadi Shafiee, Harvard Medical School
Event Information
Open to
- UCL staff | UCL students
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering
Location
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421Roberts BuildingTorrington PlaceLondonWC1E 7JEUnited Kingdom
The advances in micro and nano-technologies and the surge in consumer electronics have paved a solid foundation for developing mobile health (mhealth) technologies with the potential to transform the current paradigm in global health. In this talk, Dr Shafiee will present examples of how smartphones can be seamlessly integrated with hardware, software, microfluidics, and nanotechnology to develop point-of-care diagnostic devices to address clinical gaps in the management of infectious diseases and infertility.
About the Speaker
Dr Hadi Shafiee
Assistant Professor at the Division of Engineering at Brigham & Womens's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
He graduated from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran (BSc) in 2001 and University of Tehran, Iran (MSc) in 2003 with degrees in Mechanical Engineering. He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics from Virginia Polytechnique Institute and State University in 2010. After receiving training in the development of devices for cell sorting and pathogen detection at Virginia Tech and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, he started his own lab at BWH, HMS in 2014.
Dr Shafiee’s lab strives to develop innovative diagnostic tools to address unmet clinical challenges through integrating biology/medicine, micro and nanotechnology, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence. With an emphasis on translational research, he hopes to train the next generation of bioengineers and scientists to work at the forefront of bioengineering and regenerative medicine, and to expand the boundaries of this exciting field.