Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering

Speaker: Michelle Khine- Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education UC Irvine

Talk Title: Soft Electronics for Ubiquitous Physiological Monitoring

Abstract: While great advances in medicine has been made in the past century, the overall infrastructure of the healthcare system has not progressed. Patients are still expected to travel to a centralized location for discrete, reactionary based care where the healthcare provider only has a brief window to assess the patient’s health. Unless the symptoms are overt at the time of examination, the subjective evaluation relies heavily on the self-reporting of symptoms from the patient. This often results in delayed or improper diagnoses. In contrast, we know that physiological signals precede clinical deterioration. We have developed a suite of soft, low-cost, unobtrusive, Band-Aid © like physiological sensors to continuously monitor patients cardiovascular and pulmonary functions. We seek to continuously quantify subtle physiological changes to predict – and eventually prevent -- the onset of acute clinical events.

Biography: Michelle Khine, Ph.D. is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education at UC Irvine. She was the founding Director of Faculty Innovation at the Samueli School of Engineering and founding Director of BioENGINE (BioEngineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship) at UC Irvine. Prior to joining UC Irvine, she was an Assistant & Founding Professor at UC Merced. Michelle received her BS and MS from UC Berkeley in Mechanical Engineering and her PhD in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley and UCSF. She is the Scientific Founder of 6 start-up companies. Michelle was the recipient of the TR35 Award and named one of Forbes 10 Revolutionaries’ and by Fast Company Magazine as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. She was awarded the NIH New Innovator s Award and was named by Marie Claire magazine as Women on Top: Top Scientist. Michelle is a Fellow of AIMBE (American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering) and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
 
 

Host: Maral Mousavi

Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 100 B

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Carla Stanard