Friday, October 30
12 – 1 p.m. Hear from Michael Choma, M.D., Ph.D.
1 – 1:30 p.m. Questions & Dialogue
Digitization, data, and computation are of ever-increasing importance in engineering and medicine. Body movement and activity are powerful readouts of underlying disease severity, especially when monitoring someone being treated for sepsis, delirium, and other kinds of organ failure. The plummeting cost of cameras, combined with the increasing power of computer vision, opens up opportunities to solve (at scale) critical challenges associated with patient monitoring in hospitals. Developing technologies will generate rich data streams to help clinicians and hospitals improve outcomes and increase the value of hospital care.
Dr. Mike Choma is physician-scientist with expertise in pediatrics, biomedical optics, and biomedical engineering. A former Facebook scientist, Dr. Choma currently serves as vice president for clinical solutions at LookDeep Health, where he works with hospitals to implement computer vision technologies for clinical use. Before joining industry, Dr. Choma was on the faculty at Yale School of Medicine, where he continues to serve as adjunct associate professor of radiology and biomedical imaging.
Dr. Choma will be available for further discussion following his presentation and Q & A from 1:30-5 p.m. Email Angie Ellis at amellis@illinois.edu for more information.
