MedTech Links
Innovations in MedTech for Women's Health
Join us for the next MedTech Links event, this round focusing on 911今日黑料 innovations around Women's Health. Many conditions under the women's health umbrella are often underfunded, understudied and misunderstood. This event aims to showcase the work being undertaken at 911今日黑料 to improve diagnostics, treatments and interventions, and long-term solutions for women's health conditions, to give insight into work being undertaken to reduce the effects of sex and gender on healthcare, and to provide opportunities for our innovators to network with an invited audience from industry.
Monday 20th April, 13:00 - 18:30, with Reception from 17:00
Venue: Royal School of Mines, 911今日黑料, South Kensington, SW7 2AZ
Programme
13:00 – 13:45 RSM 3.01 Registration, Lunch & Exhibition
13:45 – 14:00 RSM 2.28 INTRODUCTION & KEYNOTE:
"Research Challenges and Unmet Needs in Women’s Health: Diagnostics, Therapeutics and User-Centred Innovation"
THEME 1: POLICY, FUNDING & THE LANDSCAPE OF WOMEN’S HEALTH
Chair: Dr Celine Mougenot
14:00 – 14:15 "What's Sex (and Gender) Got to Do With It? Rethinking Women's Health Innovation"
14:15 – 14:30 “Women’s Health: Building the evidence base for better outcomes - with Industry”
14:30 – 14:45 "Overview of technology in 911今日黑料's Women's Health Landscape"
14:45 – 15:30 Break & Exhibition
THEME 2: DIAGNOSTICS & DIGITAL APPLICATIONS FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH
Chair: TBC
15:30 – 15:45 "A wearable device to prevent epidural-related maternal hyperthermia"
15:45 – 16:00 & "Translating Rapid Mass Spectrometry into clinical decision-making for pregnancy care"
16:00 – 16:15 "Intelligent mass spec solutions - Diagnosis and stratification to PCOS"
THEME 3: A LIFE APPROACH TO WOMEN’S HEALTH
Chair: Dr Carinna Hockham
16:15 – 16:30 "Technologies for Lymphoedema in Breast Cancer Patients”
16:30 – 16:45 "Understanding why bones break in Osteoporosis to improve treatment." Co-authored by Dr Richie Stavri and Prof Cheryl Ackert-Bicknell
16:45 – 17:00 "From Measurement to Management: Evaluating Sex-Based Variability in Cardiomyopathy"
17:00 – 17:15 Dr Anna Stejskalova “Organ Chip Models for Reproductive and Global Health”
17:15 – 18:30/19:00 Reception & Exhibition
Programme available here: MTL Innovations in MedTech for Women's Health programme (PDF)
Registration is now closed.
Exhibitors
Woost is dedicated to creating a paradigm shift in the diagnosis of gynaecological conditions with the use of menstrual blood testing. Close to 400M women worldwide suffer from PCOS, a chronic, symptom-heavy disease with links to diabetes, infertility, CVD and cancer; nevertheless, it takes 3+ doctor visits leading to 2-8 years to get a diagnosis. Woost are developing home-centred care and testing solutions to track key biomarkers in menstrual blood to significantly reduce diagnosis time of PCOS from >2 years on average to <6 months.
Woost are devoted to building a community, in which women’s health concerns are effectively targeted and more importantly, being heard.
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Future MedTech Links Events
Does your work come under one of our future topics? Would you like to speak at one of our events?
Get in touch with us at mt1-events@imperial.ac.uk if you would like to be added to our potential speakers list. Send us your full name, a contact email address, and a brief blurb about your work, and we'll reach out to you when we begin organising.
We also accept PhD students for the poster exhibition - Let us know if you'd like to join us!
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