Hacking Health Cafe with Andrew McArthur
When: Thursday January 21st 2016 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Where: David Braley Health Sciences Building @ 100 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario
Register: meetup.com/Hacking-Health-Hamilton/events/225589577
Organizer: @HHHamOnt
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Are you interested in healthcare innovation? Are you a healthcare professional, designer, or software developer? Then this is where you need to be for demos, talks, and networking on how we can bring about massive change in healthcare.
For this month’s Hacking Health Café, we are at the new David Braley Health Sciences Building in downtown Hamilton. This beautiful building is a symbol of the investment in healthcare right in the heart of downtown.
Andrew McArthur: “Building an Internet of DNA to Combat Antibiotic Resistance”
Andrew is a professor of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences. He recently returned to Canada following a 10 year research career in the United States, including faculty positions at the Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, MA) and Brown University.
For years he has been working on global infectious diseases, functional genomics, and bioinformatics.
He is now the Cisco Research Chair in Bioinformatics running a lab that intersects academic, government and industry. http://mcarthurbioinformatics.ca
STAND UP Pitch winners — HINT wearable monitors for strokes while sleeping
Ahmed Elmeligi and Jacob Jackson won $2,500 and the first prize in the recent STAND UP Pitch competition run by Spectrum at McMaster University. They are both masters students in the WBooth School of Engineering Practice.
Ahmed and Jacob are working on a wearable point-of-care monitoring device called HINT–which stands for Healthcare Innovation in NeuroTechnology–that can alert high-risk patients, as well as their care-givers and doctors, if they are having a stroke in their sleep. HINT detects strokes that might go undetected during sleep and allows the patient to receive time-sensitive treatment.
Born in Egypt and raised in Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Elmeligi moved to Canada at the age of 17 to pursue a degree in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at McMaster. He worked at BlackBerry as a Product Engineering Specialist and as a design lead at a medical startup, part of the Velocity Program at Waterloo. His passion is to combine great user experience with medical solutions.
Jacob Jackson completed his undergraduate degree in physics at the University of British Columbia. His undergraduate research involved novel neuroimaging techniques to investigate the brain’s ability to experience structural change. He has been involved in medical research for more than 2 years in both stroke and addiction. Jacob’s passion lies in the combination of entrepreneurship and neurotechnology.
See you at the David Braley Health Sciences Building across from City Hall!