{"id":84470,"date":"2019-05-13T06:33:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T03:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/wearable-devices-for-medical-diagnosis\/"},"modified":"2019-05-13T06:33:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T03:33:18","slug":"wearable-devices-for-medical-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/wearable-devices-for-medical-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearable Devices for Medical Diagnosis\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
1st<\/sup>\u00a0 International Conference on Wearable Devices for Medical Diagnosis\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n May 13-14 at\u00a0 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will hold the first international conference of its kind in Israel on Wearable Devices for Medical Diagnosis on May 13-14. Academics and industry representatives who work in the field will participate.<\/span><\/p>\n The conference will be headed by Prof. Hossam Haick, Head of the Laboratory for Nanomaterial-Based Devices at the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering and a member of the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI).<\/span><\/p>\n The conference will deal with the integration of technologies and products for medical monitoring that are now available on the market and biochemical sensing technologies \u2013 accurate monitoring of physiological conditions based on chemical monitoring of the skin and various organs.<\/span><\/p>\n The lectures will cover a wide range of topics, including pulmonary function monitoring, monitoring of cardiac activity, the development of sensors for medical monitoring and innovative skin patches for speedy and inexpensive monitoring of tuberculosis, and the development of monitoring patches that decompose.\u00a0In addition to dealing with breakthrough technologies in the field of wearable devices, some lectures will also relate to social\u00a0aspects of ethics, security, and privacy.<\/span><\/p>\n The conference will begin on Monday, May 13, at 9: 00 a.m.\u00a0Opening words by\u00a0 Prof. Hossam Haick and Andrey Broisman, Director of Applied Science and Engineering at Israel\u2019s Ministry of Science and Technology.<\/span><\/p>\n Conference\u00a0 Main Speakers :<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Prof. Kenneth S. Suslick<\/strong>\u00a0of the University of Illinois<\/strong>, an expert in the development of advanced sensing systems<\/span><\/p>\n And\u00a0Prof. Corrado Di Natale<\/strong>\u00a0of the University of Rome<\/strong>, an expert on sensors and sensing systems.<\/span><\/p>\n Additional topics include bridging the gap between biochemical sensors and the digital world, energy conversion systems for wearable applications, electronic \u201cskin\u201d for monitoring brain activity (Haick Laboratory), and monitoring lung function using wearable Nano-sensors as well as wearable devices for monitoring heart activity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n For the full conference program please\u00a0click here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Reporters and photographers are asked to register in advance,<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1st\u00a0 International Conference on Wearable Devices for Medical Diagnosis\u00a0 May 13-14 at\u00a0 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will hold the first international conference of its kind in Israel on Wearable Devices for Medical Diagnosis on May 13-14. Academics and industry representatives who work in the field will participate. The conference… Continue Reading Wearable Devices for Medical Diagnosis\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n