This session is the next one in our series of bringing together clinicians and medical researchers to discuss possible research collaborations.
CITRIS Health
CITRIS Chief Scientist Thomas Nesbitt Receives Leadership Award
Thomas Nesbitt, CITRIS Chief Scientist and associate vice chancellor for strategic technologies and alliances for UC Davis Health System, has received the 2010 Leadership Award for the Advancement of Telemedicine from the American Telemedicine Association.
Research Exchange: Advancing Health Through Technology: The Vision of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis
A nurse leader, educator and scientist and a nationally-recognized expert in gerontological nursing and rural health care, Heather M. Young was appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for Nursing at UC Davis Health System in 2008. She also serves as the founding Dean of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis.
Research Exchange: Molecule Counting Technology for Personalized Healthcare
Knowledge is power. Knowing of the quantities of specific molecules present in a biological system is fundamental to understanding systems level operation. This understanding is critical for translating basic knowledge of specific molecules into applied medical, agriculture, forensic, and drug development assays, and has created a need for methods that more accurately quantify an ever-increasing number of newly identified analytes with greater precision.
CITRIS Junior Fellow/Postdoctoral Scholar Opening
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) headquartered at the University of California, Berkeley has an immediate opening for CITRIS Junior Fellow/Postdoctoral Scholar in the area of telemedicine and healthcare technologies.
Groundbreaking for California Telehealth Resource Center
UC Davis physicians, nurses and administrative leaders gathered Friday, Jan. 15, to mark the official groundbreaking for the new California Telehealth Resource Center on the grounds of the university’s Sacramento campus. The four-story, $36 million building is designed to enhance and complement UC Davis’ expertise in the field of telehealth, which is the use of high-speed telecommunications for medical services. Read the full article.
Getting Your Robot On: Wearable Machines’ Intimate Interface
Jacob Rosen has developed a robotic arm controlled by the
electrical signals sent by the brain through the nerves to contract the
muscles – signals known as electromyograph (EMG).
Medical Matchmakers: Startup ComplexDX Helps Specialists Find Hard-to-Diagnose Patients
A new company, which won second-place in this year's Big Ideas contest, works to connect patients with difficult-to-diagnose symptoms with the right specialists.
Javeed Siddiqui Appointed as CITRIS Medical Director
Javeed Siddiqui, M.D was recently appointed as Medical Director of CITRIS. Dr. Siddiqui’s work to advance healthcare access and quality through the use of technology has made significant contributions to the field. His project management and strategic planning experience in technology advancement will be valuable throughout the CITRIS community.
Ravi Nemana awarded $5,000 by IBM
Ravi Nemana, CITRIS Executive Director for Services and Health Care, received an Honorable Mention Award of $5,000 for his contributions to IBM’s Smarter Planet University Jam. Since 2001, IBM has used jams to involve more than 300,000 people around the world in far-reaching exploration and problem-solving. IBM's Jams provide for collaborative innovation and bring different minds and different perspectives together to discover new solutions to long-standing problems.
Data You Can Admire: Kwan-Liu Ma Converts Huge Data Sets into Illuminating Visualizations
Professor Kwan-Liu Ma at
UC Davis takes data sets that can be on the peta or tera scale
and turns them into explorable, workable, and visualizable units
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy Awarded 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal
Professor and CITRIS Director Emeritus Ruzena Bajcsy was recently awarded the Franklin Institute's 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science. Prof. Bajcsy received the award for contributions to robotics and computer vision, specifically the development of active perception and the creation of methods to improve our understanding of medical images.
Serious Play: Using Games to Screen for Fragile X
Researchers at CITRIS have teamed up to develop a video game that can screen young children for fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited mental impairment.
Cell Phone as a Platform for Healthcare Awards from MSR
CITRIS projects at Berkeley and Santa Cruz using cell phones as a
healthcare platform are among the projects supported by a recent Microsoft Research initiative.
The Eyes Have It…Finally
Reliable and inexpensive broadband connects rural patients to eye doctors.
Bloody Small Microscope on a Phone
by Gordy Slack The CellScope is an ordinary cell phone with an optical microscope attachment, which would allow it to serve as a necessary device […]
UC Receives $22 Million FCC Telehealth Grant
The University of California, in partnership with a coalition of government
agencies, health care providers and others, received a three-year, $22 million
award from the Federal Communications Commission to help develop
a new California Telehealth Network.
Affordable MRI Technology
Of the 1.6 million Californians with diabetes, fully half are low-income individuals and one third are elderly. Currently, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the […]
Virtual Stress Testing: Putting Virtual Skeletons under Pressure
One in three women will be affected by osteoporosis in their lifetimes, and detecting who is most at risk is part of UC Berkeley Mechanical […]
Cell phone + Microscope = CellScope
While telemedicine research continues to make remarkable strides in increasing access to care for underserved populations, obstacles such as cost, operation, and sustainability significantly limit its adoption and use.
Enhanced RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Technology for Disaster Preparedness and Hospital Surge Capacity
Patient tracking has long been a concern of medical community and runs hand in hand with patient data management. Recent experience from Hurricane Katrina and […]
UC Davis Medical School
The explosion of knowledge and information in the health sciences is ironically creating greater disparities in the quality of healthcare services. The Institute of Medicine […]
The Universal Language of Health
The health education of non-English speakers is an enormous California-wide challenge, where roughly 40 percent of all Californians do not speak English at home. To […]
Public Health Assisting Smart Technologies (PHAST)
CITRIS researchers are creating smart devices that promote awareness and understanding of personal activity spaces and how those spaces affect people’s health. The wearable devices […]