The Next Billion Medical Devices :: Even Something as “Mundane” as a Video Call is Creating an Entire New Paradigm of Telemedicine.

Abstract: In this talk, Dr. Wang will share research work that the DigiHealth Lab is doing around discovering new digital biomarkers for Alzheimer’s screening, improving breastfeeding efficacy for mothers, making blood pressure monitoring continuous, and passively enabling mass monitoring of individuals for upper-respiratory infections with wearable sensors. It is in this context of developing and designing these technologies beyond the theory and simulation, however, where we are faced with the real-world challenges of bringing such a distributed and federated healthcare system together.

Bio: Dr. Edward Jay Wang is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & The Design Lab at UC San Diego, where he directs the DigiHealth Lab. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington under Dr. Shwetak Patel and his B.S. from Harvey Mudd College. His work is currently being funded by the NIH, NIA a2Collective Center for Aging Tech, and UC San Diego Galvanizing Engineering in Medicine (GEM). He has been the recipient of the Google Faculty Research Scholar Award, Google Health Equity Research Initiative Award, NSF Graduate Fellowship Award, the ARCS Foundation Fellowship, and 5 publication paper awards. He has published in top-tier venues including ACM UbiComp, CHI, UIST, npj Digital Medicine, Frontiers Digital Health, and Nature Scientific Reports. He is also the Founder/CEO of Billion Labs Inc., a UCSD technology spinout aiming to translate a comprehensive suite of smartphone-based digital biomarkers towards regulatory clearance in order to provide a more equitable future where health monitoring is available to the masses.  

UCSD DigiHealth Lab: https://digihealth.eng.ucsd.edu/  and Billion Labs Inc. : http://billionlabsinc.com/