eWEAR Symposium Fall 2021- part 2 (half-day)

Zhenan Bao is a K.K. Lee Professor in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Chemistry and Material Science and Engineering. She has served as the Department Chair of Chemical Engineering from 2018. Prof. Bao is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Inventors. She founded the Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiative (eWEAR) and is the faculty director. She is also an affiliated faculty member of Precourt Institute, Woods Institute, ChEM-H and Bio-X. Prof. Bao received her Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from The University of Chicago in 1995 and then joined the Materials Research Department of Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. Prof. Bao currently has more than 500 refereed publications and more than 65 US patents. She is a Founder on the Board of Directors of C3 Nano Co. and PyrAmes, both Silicon Valley venture funded companies. She was a recipient of the ACS Central Science Disruptor and Innovator Prize in 2020, ACS Gibbs Medal recipient in 2020, Wilhelm Exner Medal from the Austrian Federal Minister of Science in 2018, the L’Oreal UNESCO Women in Science Award North America Laureate in 2017. She was awarded the ACS Applied Polymer Science Award in 2017 and ACS Creative Polymer Chemistry Award in 2013. Prof. Bao has been selected by Nature magazine as “Ten People Who Mattered” and “Master of Materials” for her work on artificial electronic skin in 2015.

In this talk, I will show our methods for scalable fabrication of stretchable electronic circuits and low impedance electrodes for electrophysiological mapping and nerve stimulation. Related applications in wearable electronics will be discussed.

Scott Delp is the Founding Chairman of the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford, and Director of the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Stanford, a university-wide research initiative focused on discovering biological principles to optimize human performance and catalyze innovations in human health for all. Dr. Delp is also the Director of the Restore Center, an NIH national center focused on measuring real world rehabilitation outcomes with wearable sensors, and Director of the Mobilize Center, a NIH National Center of Excellence focused on Big Data and Mobile Health. Scott is focused on developing technologies to advance movement science and human health. Software tools developed in his lab, including OpenSim and Simtk.org, have become the basis of an international collaboration involving thousands of students and scientists who exchange simulations of human movement. Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford, Delp was on the faculty at Northwestern University and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. He has published over 250 research articles and has recently published a textbook from MIT Press entitled Biomechanics of Movement: The Science of Sports, Robotics, and Rehabilitation. Professor Delp has co-founded six health technology companies and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

Movement is essential for human health. Unfortunately many conditions including cerebral palsy osteoarthritis obesity running injuries and stroke limit movement at a great cost to public health and personal well-being. The proliferation of devices monitoring human activity including mobile phones and an ever-growing array of wearable sensors is generating unprecedented quantities of data describing human movement behaviors and health. Mobility data is also being collected daily by hundreds of clinical centers and research laboratories around the world. A focus of my laboratory is to overcome the data science challenges facing this mobility big data to improve human movement across the wide range of conditions that limit mobility. In this talk I will review results from analyzing movement data from 6 million individuals in over 100 countries around the world acquired using a smartphone app for activity and health tracking. This analysis has revealed new insights about physical activity levels and what factors are predictive of these activity levels. I will also discuss challenges for the field in gaining insights from large-scale data from wearable sensors.

Dr. Aalami graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 1998. He completed his general surgery residency at the University of California, San Francisco-East Bay in 2005. During his residency, he completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University researching transplantation immunology with Dr. Randall Morris and tissue engineering with Dr. Michael Longaker. He subsequently completed his vascular surgery fellowship at Northwestern University in 2007. During his fellowship, he spent one year performing translational research in Dr. Melina Kibbe’s lab evaluating the effects of nitric oxide on neointimal hyperplasia. He is board certified in both Surgery and Vascular Surgery.

Dr. Aalami joined Stanford Vascular Surgery in 2012. He is currently a Clinical Professor of Surgery in the Division of Vascular Surgery. He is also a staff surgeon at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS). He serves as the Medical Director of the Vascular Laboratory at the VAPAHCS and is the education site director.

Dr. Aalami’s research interests include the development of minimally invasive vascular surgical devices and techniques, medical information technology and biology of neointimal hyperplasia.

There continues to be mounting evidence for the correlation between physical activity and health outcomes. Are we doing a good enough job at measuring physical activity or implementing programs to encourage more physical activity? We explore how passive activity measures from the ubiquitous smartphone may lead to a path towards “Activity as a Vital Sign” or the “Activity Index“ (Ai).

Dr. Scott Ceresnak is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.  He is currently the interim director of the Pediatric Electrophyisology program at Lucile Packard, and is also the director of the Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Training Program.  His clinical and research interests are primarily in heart rhythm disorders, ablation procedures, and pacemaker and defibrillator use in children, adolescents and adults with congenital heart disease.

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Dr. Henry Chubb is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Cardiology at Stanford and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.  He is a pediatric cardiac electrophysiologist and originally trained in London, UK, before moving to Stanford. His PhD is in MRI techniques for electrophysiology, developing and establishing a first-in-man ablation system for performing electrophysiological ablation procedures in the MRI scanner. He is a keen advocate for new technologies and his clinical and research interests include image integration, cardiac resynchronization therapy, remote monitoring and arrhythmia mechanisms. 

Manali Kulkarni is an MS Candidate in Community Health and Prevention Research. She has an interdisciplinary background in digital health innovation, strategy, human-centered design, and public health research. She brings a breadth of experience working with local and global non-profits, healthcare systems, and government. At Stanford, she is developing Eye-dentify, an off-the-grid electronic health record and patient wearable system, and she is conducting research into maternal mental healthcare gaps in the US.

Siavash received his MS degree from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2015. He is currently working toward his PhD degree at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. He is the recipient of the Stanford University Fellowship in 2015,  the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship in 2019, and the Centennial Teaching Award in 2021. His research interests are analog and RF integrated circuits for low-power biomedical applications.

Weichen Wang obtained his B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China and is currently a PhD. student in Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University, under the supervision by Prof. Zhenan Bao. Weichen’s research interests center around the developments and applications of the intrinsically stretchable electronics and neuromorphic devices.