REMOTE HEALTH - Key Persons
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- Assistant Professor, Health & Kinesiology - Texas a & M University
B. Eng., Production Engineering - University of Mumbai, India
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- Innovation Director / Texas a & M University
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- Research Engineer / Texas a & M University
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- Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering - Texas a & M University
- Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering - Texas a & M University
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- Director of the TEES Center for Remote Health Technologies
- Director, Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems - Texas a & M Engineering Experiment Station
- Professor I - Texas a & M University
Gerard L. Coté is director of the TEES Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems (CRHTS) and holds the Charles H. & Bettye Barclay Professorship in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is recognized as a world-wide expert in optical sensing for diagnostic and biomedical monitoring applications. Specifically, his research focuses on the development of macro-scale to nano-scale systems using lasers, optics and electronics for in vivo and in vitro sensing, such as development of a glucose-monitoring system for determining blood sugar levels in patients with diabetes; optically monitoring perfusion and oxygenation for tissue transplants and wearable technologies; and development of point-of-care and cell phone-based devices to remotely detect cardiac biomarkers, blood toxins, skin cancer and malaria. He has coauthored more than 300 publications, proceedings and abstracts, and he has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and private industry. Dr. Coté also contributes to translational research and the innovation ecosystem as the co-holder of several U.S. patents and as a co-founder of three medical device companies namely; BioTex, BasePairBioTechnologies, and Visualase (recently acquired by Medtronic). Dr. Coté is a Fellow of four societies including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the Biomedical Engineering Society, and the international Society for Optics and Photonics.
Education
Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs
M.S., Bioengineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs
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- Director, Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems - Texas a & M Engineering Experiment Station
- Professor I
- Professor I - Texas a & M University
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- Finance Director / Texas a & M University
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- Professor of Practice, Biomedical Engineering - Texas a & M University
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- Administrative Director / Texas a & M University
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- Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering - Texas a & M University
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- Associate Professor of Practice, Industrial and Systems Engineering - Texas a & M University
- Professor
- Professor of Practice, Industrial and Systems Engineering - Texas a & M University
Madhav Erraguntla is professor of practice in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University. He also is senior research scientist at Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. His areas of expertise include data mining, health care analytics, lean health care, epidemiology, evidence-based medicine and systems analysis. He was the principal investigator for Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, NASA, Department of Transportation, and Defense Health Program funded projects on epidemiology, health care analytics, donor hemovigilance, crowd-sourced data collection, and health care supply chain optimization. Erraguntla has coauthored more than 30 publications in journals and conferences and has contributed to book chapters. He is developing technology based on social media mining, smartphone-based surveillance data collection, natural language processing, zoonotic surveillance, and data fusion for epidemiologic disease prediction. Erraguntla is hosting national-level Donor Hemovigilance system for American Association of Blood Banks, and the standards developed in this project were adopted by International Society for Blood Transfusion.
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- Fellow
- Regents and Distinguished Professor
- Regents and Distinguished Professor, School of Public Health - Texas a & M University / Director, Center for Population Health & Aging - Texas a & M University
Marcia G. Ory is a regents and distinguished professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences within the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health, and serves as director of the Program on Healthy Aging within the school. Dr. Ory is recognized as an international leader in public health and aging with interests in designing health promotion and disease prevention interventions at the individual, health provider and service delivery level to improve the health and well-being of individuals across the life-course. She has a long history of applied prevention research starting in the 1980s when at the National Institute on Aging directing the Social Science Research on Aging program. Most recently, she has been responsible for local, state and national evaluations of evidence-based health promotion programs, including serving as principal investigator for a multi-site national study of the Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program and multiple CDC-funded special initiative projects. Additionally, as co-director of the School's Health Technology and Patient Empowerment initiative, she is concerned with the development of novel technologies for patient screening, diagnosis, and intervention. Dr. Ory has (co-)authored 10 edited books, 40 book chapters, 20 edited issues in professional journals, and published approximately 350 articles in peer reviewed journals. Twenty-five articles have been cited at least 100 times, and another 35 have been being cited at least 50 times. For a complete CV see https://public-health.tamu.edu/directory/ory.html.
Dr. Ory is a fellow of several societies including the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, American Academy of Health Behavior, Gerontological Society of America, and Society for Behavioral Medicine. In recognition of her contributions to the field, she was recently awarded the American Public Health Association Life Time Achievement Award by the Aging and Public Health Section.
Education
Post-doctoral Fellow, The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
M.P.H., The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minnesota
Ph.D., Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
M.A., Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health - Texas a & M University
- Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health - Texas a & M University / Director, Ergonomics Center
Mark E. Benden is associate professor in the The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Texas A&M University and director of the Ergonomics Center at the Texas A&M School of Public Health. His 25-year career in Occupational Safety and Ergonomics has produced multiple processes, tools and devices to ease injury and illness risk and improve comfort and productivity. Many of those devices created competitive advantage for his employers and many are still active intellectual property protected by 19 U.S. patents with multiple patents pending. Sales of those items carrying his patents have totaled more than $150 million and the expected lifetime economic impact of those designs exceeds $250 million. His career includes experience as an officer in the United States Army Reserve, rehabilitation engineer, ergonomics consultant, plant & corporate ergonomics engineer for Johnson & Johnson, and executive vice president for Neutral Posture. He also is CEO of two faculty-led startups; PositiveMotion LLC and Stand2Learn LLC. He is an experienced consultant and expert witness with clients including ExxonMobil, GSK, NOV, AON, Rubbermaid, Bechtel, Sysco, Conoco and Linak.
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- Deputy Director of the TEES Center for Remote Health Technologies
- Deputy Director, Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems - Texas a & M Engineering Experiment Station / Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering - Texas a & M University
Mark Lawley is deputy director of the TEES Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems (CRHTS) and TEES research professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on supervisory control and optimal decision making in large, man-made systems, with applications to automated manufacturing, condition monitoring, networked infrastructure, and health care delivery. As a researcher in academics, he has authored more than 100 technical papers that have garnered four best paper awards and several other best paper nominations. Two of his papers have been recognized as being among the most highly cited in IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers) Transactions. Lawley has been involved in more than 30 funded grants totaling $6 million, serving as principal investigator on more than 20 of these. His funding sources have included the National Science Foundation, The National Institutes of Health, The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, The Indiana State Department of Public Health, The Indiana Hospital Association, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, General Motors, and Union Pacific Railroad.
Education
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign
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- Associate Professor
- Director
- Professor, Associate Department Head, Biomedical Engineering - Texas a & M University
- Professor, Biomedical Engineering - Texas a & M University
Melissa A. Grunlan is associate professor and director of undergraduate programs in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Her laboratory focuses on developing new polymeric biomaterials for medical devices and regenerative therapies (i.e. tissue engineering). "Hybrid" systems based on combining inorganic and organic polymers are produced as coatings, hydrogels, elastomers and porous foams. Chemical, surface, mechanical and thermal properties are evaluated with a variety of techniques. Current projects are focused on developing self-cleaning membranes for implanted biosensors, clot-resistant coatings for blood-contacting devices and scaffolds for bone repair and for the regeneration of osteochondral interfaces.
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- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering - Texas a & M University
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering - Texas a & M University
- Is Director of the Biomechanical Environments Laboratories
Dr. Moreno is Director of the Biomechanical Environments Laboratories. His research is focused on experimental biomechanics and biomechanical engineering across multiple scales. Research interests include biomechanical factors in medical device design, biomechanical factors in tissue engineering and 3D bioprinting, medical device innovation in resource limited settings, cardiovascular fluid and solid biomechanics, orthopedic biomechanics, veterinary biomechanics, biomechanics of human performance, and sports biomechanics.
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- Professor and Director
- Professor, Department Head, Biomedical Engineering - Texas a & M University
Mike McShane is professor and director of graduate programs in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University. His laboratory focuses on the modeling, design, fabrication and testing of small-scale analytical devices, particularly photoluminescent biosensors. McShane's research and educational activities cover many areas of biomedical engineering, including biomaterials, molecular biology, biomedical optics, biotransport, bioinstrumentation, signal processing and medical device design. McShane's laboratory produces and tests sensor systems using microscale and nanoscale fabrication approaches of self-assembly and photolithography as well as develops strategies for deploying these in vitro and in vivo. Examples of current technologies include hybrid polymer-protein-dye materials shaped into nanoparticles, microparticles, microcapsules and microstructured systems for "smart" sensing implants.
Education
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University
B.S., Bioengineering, Texas A&M University
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- Professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas
- Professor, Health and Kinesiology - Texas a & M University / Director, Center for Translational Research in Aging & Longevity - Texas a & M University
Nicolaas Deutz is professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas A&M University. He also is director of the Center for Translational Research in Aging & Longevity. His research and interests have been in clinical nutrition and metabolism research in animals and humans for more than 30 years, and he has published more than 270 papers in this research field. His clinical interest is using nutritional supplements to treat malnutrition in older adults and during acute and chronic disease states. Deutz joined the Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism Group of the Department of Surgery of Maastricht University, NL as assistant professor and was appointed associate professor in 2000. He has focused his research on (inter)organ protein and amino acid metabolism using animals (mice, rats, pigs), healthy humans, and patients with various acute and chronic diseases, including (pre)diabetes, obesity, cancer, COPD, sepsis, liver and gut failure and was PI of many federal and industry-sponsored research projects. Deutz moved to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 2006 and became professor of geriatrics in the Center for Translational Research in Aging & Longevity of the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. He moved to his present position in 2012. Since 1988, he has been an active member of the European Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) and chaired the scientific committee from 2000-2005. Since 2006, he has served as editor-in-chief of the society's journals: Clinical Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition Supplements and Clinical Nutrition ESPEN.
Education
Ph.D., Hepatic Encephalopathy, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
M.D., University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Assistant Professor in the Departments of Electrical
- Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering - Texas a & M University
- Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering - Texas a & M University
Pao-Tai Lin is assistant professor in the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. He has investigated mid-infrared photonic circuits for chip-scale and label-free sensing that can detect early-stage diabetes, asthma and other chronic diseases. His research at CRHTS focuses on developing flexible optoelectronics and multifunctional mid-infrared materials that will enable wearable biomedical sensors for remote health monitoring.
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- Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering - Texas a & M University
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- Associate Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering
- Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Engineering - Texas a & M University
Roozbeh Jafari is associate professor in the departments of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on wearable computer design and signal processing with applications in health care, wellness and enhancing productivity and safety of the users. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Army's Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, SRC and industry (Texas Instruments, Tektronix, Samsung & Telecom Italia). He has published more than 100 papers in refereed journals and conferences and served as general chair and technical program committee chair for several flagship conferences in the area of wearable computers, including the Association for Computing Machinery Wireless Health 2012 and 2013, International Conference on Body Sensor Networks 2011 and International Conference on Body Area Networks 2011. Jafari is recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2012, IEEE Real-Time & Embedded Technology & Applications Symposium best paper award in 2011 and Andrew P. Sage best transactions paper award from IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society in 2014. He is associate editor for the IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Internet of Things Journal and IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
Education
Post-doc, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles
M.S., Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering - Texas a & M University
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- Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems
- Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering - Texas a & M University / Director, TEES Institute for Manufacturing Systems
- Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering Director, TEES Institute for Manufacturing Systems
Satish Bukkapatnam is a professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on Self-sustainable sensor networks for infrastructural integrity monitoring, Nonlinear Continuous Flow modeling for Real-Time Performance prediction of Automotive Assembly Operations, RF Sensor Application for Container Integrity Monitoring Technological and Economic Analysis of RFID and RF Sensors for Tinker AFB operations, Heterogeneous wireless sensor based modeling of chemical mechanical planarization process and Experimentation test-bed for evaluation of RFID and RFID sensing Technologies.
Education
Ph.D., Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
M.S., Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, S.V. University Tirupati, India
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- Assistant Professor
- Associate Department Head and Assistant Professor
Sherecce Fields is assistant professor of clinical psychology in the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on impulsivity as a trans-disease process in adolescent health risk behaviors. Specifically, she is interested in how impulsivity and other family, process and psychosocial factors interact to affect prevention and treatment outcomes for adolescent addictive behaviors. Her primary research examines factors related to the initiation and maintenance of tobacco smoking in children and adolescents in order to inform and develop effective treatments for these behaviors. Her secondary research line extends the knowledge gained from adolescent addiction research to eating behavior and obesity in adolescents. In both areas of research, she is studying the neural mechanisms that underlie performance on laboratory behavioral tasks modeling impulsive behaviors in order to better inform prevention and treatment interventions. She has coauthored more than 30 publications, proceedings and abstracts, and she has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
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- Assistant Professor
- Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering - Texas a & M University
Thomas K. Ferris is assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University and director of the Human Factors & Cognitive Systems (HF&CS) Laboratory. Ferris' research interests are in the fields of human factors and cognitive systems Engineering and can be summarized as the study of, and design to support, human cognition in sociotechnical engineered systems. His primary focus involves human information processing and ways to support attention and task management to maximize multitasking performance in cognitively-challenging contexts, such as when operators are under heavy cognitive workload, stress, and/or time pressure. He has interest and experience in applying his research to the domains of medicine (anesthesiology, patient monitoring, neonatal intensive care), military operations (command and control, UV control and operations), aviation (cockpit automation, air traffic control), and ground transportation. Ferris has published 10 articles in top journals including Human Factors, IEEE Transactions, and The Journal of Perinatology, along with more than 30 refereed conference proceedings and book chapters in Human Factors in Aviation (Elsevier) and Design for Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care (Routledge). His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, Mayo Clinic, the Intelligent Transportation Society of America as well as private industry. He is an active member in the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and serves on the editorial board for its journal Human Factors. He also is active in the Institute for Industrial Engineers (IIE) and served as the human factors and ergonomics track chair for the 2014 IIE Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference. In addition to his affiliation with the Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems, he is a Faculty Fellow in the Ergonomics Center, the Center for Health Systems & Design, and the National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing at Texas A&M.
Education
Ph.D., Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
M.S., Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
B.S., Industrial Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City
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- Director of the Sketch Recognition Lab
- Professor, Computer Science and Engineering - Texas a & M University
Tracy Hammond is director of the Sketch Recognition Lab and associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. She is an international leader in activity recognition (focusing on eye, body and sketch motions), haptics, intelligent fabrics, smartphone development, and computer human interaction research. Hammond's publications on the subjects are widely cited and have more than1,400 citations. She has co-authored three books, has a contract for a single-authored textbook with Cambridge University Press, authored nine journal articles and 22 journal-equivalent peer-reviewed conference articles. Her research has been funded by NSF, DARPA, Google, Microsoft and many others, and totals more than$3.6 million in peer-reviewed funding. Prior to joining Texas A&M, Hammond taught for five years at Columbia University and was a telecom analyst for four years at Goldman Sachs. She is the 2011-2012 recipient of the Charles H. Barclay, Jr. '45 Faculty Fellow Award, presented to professors and associate professors who have been nominated for their overall contributions to the engineering program through classroom instruction, scholarly activities and professional service.
Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
F.T.O., Finance Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.A., Anthropology, Columbia University
M.S., Computer Science, Columbia University
B.S., Applied Math & Physics, Columbia University
B.A., Mathematics, Columbia University
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- Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas
- Professor, Biomedical Engineering - Texas a & M University
Vladislav V. Yakovlev is professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University and Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and the International Society for Optics and Photonics. His research focuses on the development of new instrumentation for biomedical diagnostics and imaging. Yakovlev's primary research interests include biomechanics on a microscale level; nanoscopic optical imaging of molecular and cellular structures; protein spectroscopy and structural dynamics; bioanalytical applications of optical technology and spectroscopy; and deep-tissue imaging and sensing.
Education
Postdoctoral, Chemistry/ Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
Ph.D., Physics/ Quantum Electronics, Moscow State University
M.S., Physics, Moscow State University
B.S., Physics, Moscow State University