Kickoff - Innovation in Health Technology: Analytics for Prevention in Woundcare

Innovation in Health Technology: Analytics for Prevention in Woundcare Mehrdad Nourani, Ph.D.

Professor in Electrical Engineering and EE Associate Department Head

University of Texas at Dallas

6:00-6:45PM - Networking
6:45-7:00PM - Overview and Group Discussion
7:00-7:30PM - Presentation and Discussion
7:30-8:00PM – Q&A, Networking with Speaker and Closing

Presentation Summary:

Statistics show that up to 23% of the patients in hospitals and nursing homes (up to 6 million) in the United States develop pressure ulcers that cost our healthcare system more than $1.2 billion annually. In this talk, Dr. Nourani will briefly present a technological solution to address one of the most costly, acute health conditions, pressure ulcers - or bed sores. Their proposed platform is a software system for monitoring, prevention and management of pressure ulcers using a pressure mapping system that records a patient's bed posture, tracks different limbs along with associated statistical pressure image data and produces a summary report for caregivers after data analysis and risk assessment.

He will also discuss some of the current research initiatives at the University of Dallas’ Quality of Life Technology Lab (http://qolt.utdallas.edu/), and some successes of the University's Office of Technology Commercialization (http://www.utdallas.edu/otc/ventures/spinoff.php). By fostering an atmosphere of innovation and entrepreneurship, UT Dallas has facilitated the launch of several new enterprises that were formed based on UT Dallas technologies.

Speaker CV:

Mehrdad Nourani received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Since August 1999, he has been on the faculty of the University of Texas at Dallas, where he is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering, EE Associate Department Head and Coordinator of the Computer Engineering Program. Dr. Nourani is a co-founder of the Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Laboratory, an interdisciplinary research lab, established in 2008 and focused on developing innovative technology and systems that improve people's quality of life. He is also a co-founder and President of Dena Technologies, Inc. a spin-off of the University of Texas at Dallas developing advanced technology in healthcare.

His current research interests include system-on-chip design and testing, signal integrity modeling and test, sensor & body-area network architectures, application specific processor architectures, packet processing devices and low power design methodologies. He has published over 200 papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings. Dr. Nourani has been a recipient of several prestigious awards including those from: National Science Foundation (NSF), Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Cisco Systems Inc., Texas Telecommunications Consortium and Texas Medical Collaborative Research (TxMRC) Consortium.