MedTech Links
Innovations in MedTech for Women's Health
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 often 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 – 14:15 RSM 2.28 INTRODUCTION & KEYNOTE:
13:45 - 14:00 Prof Jane Hirst
14:00 - 14:15 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
14:15 – 14:30 Dr Carinna Hockham "What's Sex (and Gender) Got to Do With It? Rethinking Women's Health Innovation"
14:30 – 14:45 Dr Aicha El Masri “Women’s Health at Imperial: An Integrated Platform for Discovery and Translation”
14:45 – 15:00 Dr Ed Mullins "Overview of technology in Imperial's Women's Health Landscape"
15:00 – 15:30 Break & Exhibition
THEME 2: DIAGNOSTICS & DIGITAL APPLICATIONS FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH
Chair: Professor Jane Hirst
15:30 – 15:45 Dr Chris Mullington "A wearable device to prevent epidural-related maternal hyperthermia"
15:45 – 16:00 Dr Lauren Ford & Dr Eftychios Manoli "On the road to commercialisation, providing rapid diagnostic solutions to improve women’s reproductive health"
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:
16:15 – 16:30 Prof Jimmy Moore "Technologies for Lymphoedema in Breast Cancer Patients”
16:30 – 16:45 Dr Richie Abel "Understanding why bones break in Osteoporosis to improve treatment." Co-authored by Dr Richie Stavri and Prof Cheryl Ackert-Bicknell
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
Register here!
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Future MedTech Links Events
Does your work come under one of our future topics? Would you like to speak at one of our events?
Get in touch with us at mt1-events@imperial.ac.uk if you would like to be added to our potential speakers list. Send us your full name, a contact email address, and a brief blurb about your work, and we'll reach out to you when we begin organising.
We also accept PhD students for the poster exhibition - Let us know if you'd like to join us!
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