BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:be3a5bf4825847af9724c1711cf7e227 DTSTAMP:20260415T201534Z SUMMARY:Clinician-Scientist-Engineer Challenges Workshop: Paediatrics DESCRIPTION:Imperial’s MedTechONE and the Centre for Paediatrics and Chi ld Health are partnering for the ‘Clinician-scientist-engineer challeng es workshop in paediatrics’ on 30th April\, 4 – 6 pm\, Queens Tower Ro oms.\nThe event follows similar successful events focused on intervention\ , diagnosis\, and treatment and will bring together paediatrics researcher s\, clinicians\, engineers\, and experts in a range of disciplines to expl ore clinically relevant challenges and how Imperial’s interdisciplinary expertise can be harnessed to solve them. Solutions might include developi ng new technology (both software and hardware) or repurposing existing tec hnology (including AI and machine learning).\n This event is open to Impe rial College London academics and clinical academics.\nAre you a paediatri c clinician or scientist? Do you have a clinical challenge that could be s olved with the help of an engineer?\nIf so\, you may want to present your challenge at this event. Please register below to submit your challenges ( or solutions)\, or alternatively you can email the MedTechOne team for mor e information.\nThe Clinical Challenges\n\nDr Cheryl Battersby – Investi gating non-invasive\, non-touch monitoring methods for heart rate\, ECG\, and CO2 for ventilated infant patients. Additionally\, how can we improve the affordability of incubators and thermo-environments for pre-term infan ts?\nDr Toranj Wadia – Ultrasound is a growing technology we areused in ICU\, but hands on acquisition by trained people is still a limiting fact or as training takes a long time and some new operators don’t feel confi dent in acquiring images.\nIt would be valuable to have ultrasound pads wi th technology to locate the heart\, lungs\, intracranial vessels would ena ble staff to acquire images which could be reviewed remotely by experience d clinicians.\nOther potential uses would be to enable non-cardiology trai ned staff to check for pleural/pericardial effusion or look at brain perfu sion\, in the midst of a cardiopulmonary resuscitation instead of a pulse check\, and allow offsite clinicians like cardiologists to advise on manag ement after reviewing images of a child admitted to a non cardiac centre.\ nDr Toranj Wadia – Syringe pumps are used to give infusions of medicines that maintain the patients blood pressure level above a certain level. Th e medication level has to be titrated depending on the blood pressure targ et. This is currently done manually by the bedside nurse but a self-weanin g syringe pump that could accurately auto-titrate with a blood pressure ta rget input would free up the nurses to do other important things.\nDr Tora nj Wadia – Gas chromatography mass spectrometry is being used to measure and study volatile organic compounds in breath to identify profiles that would point towards an infection. Currently we need to collect the sample and send it to a laboratory for analysis which takes time. It would be use ful to have this as a point of care test at the bedside either as part of the ventilator or siphoning from the ventilator circuit to go into the mon itor\, similar to end tidal co2 monitoring. This could be used to track th e resolution of an infection or start of a new one. It could also be used to track improvement in lung inflammation with steroids for example.\nProf Aubrey Cunnington – We have recently invented a new method to predict t he trajectory of acute illness from a single blood sample. It uses a metho d called RNA velocity\, which requires measurement of spliced and unsplice d RNA transcripts. Our challenge for the engineers is to develop a rapid p oint-of-care testing platform to quantify the spliced and unspliced transc ripts for a small number of genes in a blood sample\, which can be used to predict which unwell children with infections will rapidly deteriorate an d which children are not at risk of severe illness.\n\n \nIn partnership with the Imperial College Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health \nThe Im perial College Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health (PaeCH) mission is to power research\, amplify impact\, and enable talent to improve the heal th and wellbeing of children and young people locally and around the world . \nTheir vision is to become a nexus for exceptional inter-disciplinary c hild health research\, with a particular focus on common and high-burden d iseases. \nCore to this ambition is the integration of cutting-edge scienc e\, technology\, and innovation at Imperial\, with the clinical expertise in West London Children’s Healthcare. The unique fusion of this expertis e enables PaeCH to pioneer new approaches to improving the health and well being of children and young people across the life-course. \n \n \nPleas e note that due to works occurring in the Sherfield Building\, entrance to the Queen’s Tower Rooms will be via the courtyard only (next to the ent rance to the Abdus Salam Library). URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/206752/clinician-scientist-engineer-c hallenges-workshop-paediatrics/ DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260430T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260430T180000 LOCATION:Queen's Tower Rooms\, Sherfield Building\, South Kensington Campus \, Imperial College London\, London\, SW7 2AZ\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260430T160000 TZNAME:BST TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR