Invited Talk: Fiber-based Wearable Sensors for Continuous Wound Monitoring (IEEE Sensors Council Chapter)
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Wound infection is a major clinical challenge that significantly extends the wound healing time and increases the treatment cost and mortality. It is estimated that ~6.5 million Americans and ~67 million people worldwide suffer from either traumatic or chronic wounds. Management of wounds and their associated complications cost ~$25 billion annually for the patients and the healthcare system. Delays in the diagnosis of infected wounds and nonspecific identification of pathogenic organisms involved in wounds often result in untargeted treatments with a risk for a suboptimal choice of antibiotics, damaging non-pathogenic colonizers, the development of antibiotic resistance, and an increase in mortality rate. In my talk, I will present our work on developing intelligent wound dressings that have sensing and drug releasing capabilities. Notably, I will discuss the use of sensing fibers for measuring biological markers in wounds.
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- Date: 06 Jul 2021
- Time: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM
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- Starts 02 June 2021 06:58 PM
- Ends 06 July 2021 04:00 PM
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Dr Akbari of University of Victoria
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Dr. Mohsen Akbari is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Laboratory for Innovations in Microengineering (LiME) at the University of Victoria. In addition to his professorship, he is a member of the Center for Advanced Materials and Related Technologies (CAMTEC), member of Center for Biomedical Research (CBR), investigator at International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), Associate Member of Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health and the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at 4M Biotech. Dr. Akbari obtained his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University and his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is the recipient of several awards, including the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Michael Smith Foundation Idea to Commercialization Awards, BC Innovation Council Research Award, Kaiser Foundation Award, and recognized as a Canadian Rising Star in Global Health by Grand Challenges Canada. Dr. Akbari’s research lies at the interface of cellular biology, biomaterials, and microtechnologies and aims to develop innovative approaches for disease modelling and drug delivery. He currently holds funding from CIHR, NSERC, CFI, BC Cancer Foundation, and the Department of National Defense. He is a Guest Editor of Micromachines and Gels and a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering. His research findings have been published in 90 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters with an h-index of 33 and over 5000 citations. His work has been featured on the cover of 10 Journals and reported in media such as CBC News, Time Colonist, BBC News, Google News, Science Daily, The Telegraph, and Fortune.
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Address:Victoria, British Columbia, Canada