Join us for the next MedTech Links event, this round focusing on Imperial innovations around Women’s Health. Many conditions under the women’s health umbrella are oft underfunded, understudied and misunderstood. This event aims to showcase the work being undertaken at Imperial to improve diagnostics, treatments and interventions, and long-term solutions for women’s health conditions, to give insight into work being undertaken to reduce the effects of sex and gender on healthcare, and to provide opportunities for our innovators to network with an invited audience from industry.
Monday 20th April, 13:00 – 18:30, with Reception from 17:00
Venue: Royal School of Mines, Imperial, South Kensington, SW7 2AZ
Programme
13:00 – 13:45 RSM 3.01 Registration, Lunch & Exhibition
13:45 – 14:00 RSM 2.28 INTRODUCTION & KEYNOTE:
Dr Celine Mougenot “Research Challenges and Unmet Needs in Women’s Health: Diagnostics, Therapeutics and User-Centred Innovation”
THEME 1: POLICY, FUNDING & THE LANDSCAPE OF WOMEN’S HEALTH
Chair: Dr Celine Mougenot
14:00 – 14:15 Dr Carinna Hockham “What’s Sex (and Gender) Got to Do With It? Rethinking Women’s Health Innovation”
14:15 – 14:30 Dr Aicha El Masri “Women’s Health: Building the evidence base for better outcomes – with Industry”
14:30 – 14:45 Dr Ed Mullins “Overview of technology in Imperial’s Women’s Health Landscape”
14:45 – 15:30 Break & Exhibition
THEME 2: DIAGNOSTICS & DIGITAL APPLICATIONS FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH
Chair: Professor Jimmy Moore
15:30 – 15:45 Speaker tbc: Digital Twins and personalised medicine across women’s life cycles.
15:45 – 16:00 Dr Lauren Ford & Dr Eftychios Manoli “Translating Rapid Mass Spectrometry into clinical decision-making for pregnancy care”
16:00 – 16:15 Professor Wiebke Arlt “Intelligent mass spec solutions – Diagnosis and stratification to PCOS”
THEME 3: A LIFE APPROACH TO WOMEN’S HEALTH
Chair: Dr Carinna Hockham
16:15 – 16:30 Professor Jimmy Moore “Technologies for Lymphoedema in Breast Cancer Patients”
16:30 – 16:45 Dr Richie Abel “Genetic testing technology for the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis”
16:45 – 17:00 Dr Paz Tayal “From Measurement to Management: Evaluating Sex-Based Variability in Cardiomyopathy”
17:00 – 17:15 Dr Anna Stejskalova “Organ Chip Models for Reproductive and Global Health”
17:15 – 18:30/19:00 Reception & Exhibition
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