Plenary SpeakerDr Alison BurdettToumaz Technology, Abingdon, UK |
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Pervasive Monitoring Systems for Personalised Healthcare
Health systems worldwide are facing an economic crisis, caused by an aging population combined with lifestyle factors which lead to an ever earlier onset of chronic conditions such as diabetes and cardiac disease. Pervasive health monitoring systems offer the possibility to alleviate this crisis by allowing patients to be continually monitored outside of the hospital environment, resulting in increased quality of life and higher treatment compliance, thus improved medical outcomes. Many new technologies are being developed to enable the creation of such pervasive monitoring systems, including new bio-sensors (both implantable and non-implantable); micropower wireless sensor nodes, communication protocols, and efficient encryption algorithms. This talk will discuss the current state of the art in pervasive monitoring systems for personalised healthcare and will outline some of the challenges ahead which still need to be solved.
Biography
ALISON BURDETT received her BEng (Hons) degree in 1989 and her PhD in 1992, both from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK. From 1992-1994 she worked as an integrated circuit design engineer for GEC-Plessey Semiconductors. In 1994 she joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London, as Senior Lecturer in Analogue Circuit Design. In 2001 Dr Burdett left Imperial College to co-found Toumaz Technology Ltd, a spin-out company from the university involved in ultra low power and RF integrated circuit design, where she is currently Director of Technology at Toumaz Technology. Alison is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (FIET) and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (SMIEEE). She has published over 60 refereed technical publications and holds 10 patents.