1st Invitational Workshop on
Body Area Network Technology and Applications

Future Directions, Technologies, Standards and Applications

June 19-20, 2011
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
100 Institute Rd
Worcester, MA, USA

 
 

Program
June 19, 2011: Sunday
18:30
-
20:30


THE RECEPTION

Welcome by the sponsors

Odeum A, WPI Campus Center


Sponsored by

NIST Homeland_Security CWINS WPI

June 20, 2011: Monday
8:30
-
9:00

Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:00
-
9:30
Panels
9:30
-
10:30
PANELISTS:

Kathy Chester, Senior Vice President Regulatory and Quality, St. Jude Medical's
"Regulatory Challenges for the Wireless Health Industry "

 

Charles Farlow, Senior Program Manager, Medtronic, Inc.
"An Overview of the Medical Device Radiocommunications Service (MedRadio) and Future Telemetry Considerations"

 

Hakan Ohlgren,  Principal Development Engineer , St. Jude Medical’s
"The evolution of Medical implant telemetry and Body Area Network"

 

Brian Russell, CEO, Zephyr Technology
"Practicality of BAN for Physiological Monitoring and Various Applications"

Panel Discussion with the attendees

 
 
10:30
BREAK (30 Mins)
11:00
-
12:00
PANELISTS:

David Cave, Professor, UMass Medical School/Given Imaging
"Wireless Video Capsule Endoscopy"

Chris Cooper, Professor, University of California Los Angeles  Medical Center
"Physiological Health Assessment Worcester Polytechnic Institute System for Emergency Responders"

Hanif  Butt, Dental School, Harvard University
"3D Localization of the Dental Occlusal Plane Using WiFi Technology"

Marshall Cross, CEO, MegaWave
"WPAN-UWB Transmission Loss Measurements Around/Near A Soldier's Protective Vest"

 
 
12:00
-
14:00
Higgins House
14:00
-
15:00
Standardization Panel
Moderator: Kamran Sayrafian, NIST
PANELISTS:

Arthur Astrin, Chair, IEEE802.15.6 Body Area Networks
"Body Area Network (BAN) Standardization and Future Applications"

Raymond Krasinski, Senior Manager, Standardization, Philips
"Medical Body Area Networking (MBAN) IEEE 802.15.4j Standardization"

Nathaniel Sims, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
"Advancing Safety in Medical Technology"

 

Anthony Delli Colli, Vice-Chair, Market Adoption Working Group, Continua Health Alliance
"Continua Health Alliance BAN Technology and Application Workshop"

Panel Discussion with the attendees

 
 
15:00
BREAK (30 Mins)
15:30
-
17:00
PANELISTS:

Naveen Verma, Assistant Professor, Princeton University
"From Embedded DSP to Embedded AI:making chronic patient monitoring intelligent and scalable"

 

Maysam Ghovanloo, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Connecting the Inside and Outside Worlds: Polytechnic Institute Wideband Communication Across the Skin"

Maxim Batalin, Senior Technology, University of California, Los Angeles
"PHASER: Physiological Health Assessment System for Emergency Responders"

Ada Poon, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
"Future Implantable Systems"

Kaveh Pahlavan / Sergey Makarov, Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
" Channel Characterization for RF Localization Inside Human Body"

 

Jim Duckworth, Associate Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"Integrated First Responder Location and Physiological Monitoring"

Panel Discussion with the attendees

 
17:00