Health Care in the XXI Century: Human vs Machine

Subjects and Speakers

Each session’s topic seeks to promote an exchange of knowledge and experiences amongst participants, and to inspire new lines of research across borders.

The speakers are prestigious professors who have extensive teaching and research experience and whose work has been widely published in their respective fields. Sessions are structured around the presentation of articles, case studies, and work of the speakers themselves, presenting reviews of their work and the current state of issues involved

THE ROLE OF AI IN DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISORDERS

DEMENTIA CARE IN THE AGE OF NEUROTECHNOLOGY

Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Professor of Neurology and Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School

THE ROLE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES IN DETECTION AND INTERVENTION AROUND MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Satrajit Gosh
Satrajit Ghosh
Principal Research Scientist, McGovern Institute

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)


NOVEL METHODS OF NEUROMODULATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS

Felipe Fregni
Felipe Fregni
Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Professor of PM&R at Harvard Medical School



ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS TO REGAIN ORGAN/TISSUE FUNCTION

SOFT ROBOTICS

Ellen Roche
Ellen Roche
Latham Family Career Development Professor
Associate Professor Technology MechE and Institute
for Medical Engineering and Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)


PROSTHESIS

Lonnie G. Petersen
Lonnie G. Petersen
Charles Stark Draper Professor
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

MIT Institute for Medical Engineering & Science


HARNESSING THE POWER OF BIOLOGY – FROM CELLS AND MOLECULES TO BIOSENSING

TISSUE ENGINEERING

Mercedes Balcells-Camps
Mercedes Balcells-Camps
Principal Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT-Spain Program co-Founder and Director

NANO

Brian W. Anthony
Brian W. Anthony
Associate Director, MIT.nano
Faculty Lead, Industry Immersion Program in Mechanical Engineering

INTERSECTION OF SCIENCE AND CHALLENGES OF HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

Vipul Chitalia
Vipul Chitalia
Associate Professor of Medicine
Renal Section, Boston University School of Medicine
Director, Center of Cross-Organ Vascular Pathology



REAL WORLD EVIDENCE TO INFORM HEALTH CARE RECOMMENDATIONS

Vipul Chitalia
Sonia Hernandez-Diaz
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health


VISIT SOME OF THE LABORATORIES WHERE THE TECHNOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE ARE BEING DEVELOPED

 


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*Sessions are conducted in English and require active participation of all attendees. Required readings are also in English. For more details or questions, write to: iap.symposia@uam.es






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