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The
IASTED International Conference on
Wireless Sensor Networks
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WSN 2006 ~
as part of the Sixth IASTED International Multi-Conference
on
WIRELESS AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
~ WOC 2006 ~
July
3-4, 2006
Banff,
Alberta, Canada
Wireless
Sensor Networks for Healthcare Monitoring
William
New
Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Applied Science
Simon Fraser University, Canada
&
Chairman and CEO of Adigy
Dr William New
is widely recognized as a visionary creator of commercially-successful
innovative medical electronics, including the Nellcor pulse
oximeter and the Natus infant hearing screener. He was the
founder and executive chairman of both companies through
twenty years of high growth and their subsequent public
stock offerings.
The pulse oximeter
monitors oxygen levels in the blood of anesthetized patients
using non-invasive electro-optical spectrometry of pulsatile
blood in the finger tip, a safety product now found in virtually
every operating theatre worldwide. Dr New later founded
Natus to provide automated hearing screening for newborns,
with over twenty million babies now tested worldwide by
rapid detection of brainwaves evoked from barely audible
click sounds in each ear. He was recently elected a Fellow
of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
in recognition of his lifetime contributions to healthcare.
Dr New received
his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
University, his MD from Duke University, a PhD in Physiology
from UCLA, and his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of
Business. He retired from the Stanford University School
of Medicine faculty after 25 years of service. His clinical
specialty was cardiovascular and heart transplant anesthesia,
and his research studies focused on the design and development
of biosensors integrated with bedside digital instruments
for intensive physiologic monitoring and life support.
Dr New is presently
Chairman and CEO of Adigy, an early stage company developing
wireless biosensors to inexpensively, continuously, unobtrusively
and ubiquitously monitor health and disease across clinically
important patient populations, including elderly citizens,
those with unstable metabolic, cardiorespiratory, and neurologic
impairments, pregnant mothers and their babies, and at-risk
children. Monitoring dispersed populations in the community
presents a variety of challenges and opportunities not encountered
with conventional expensive medical measurements in individual
patients confined to hospitals and other highly controlled
environments.
Dr New has joined
the Faculty of Applied Science at Simon Fraser University
as adjunct professor and member of the Dean's Advisory Council
to help guide university development of new cross-disciplinary
bioengineering programs. In spare moments, Bill enjoys the
family vineyard in Napa Valley planted with award-winning
Beaujolais - and dreams of growing even higher quality Pinot
Noir in British Columbia someday, every vine individually
tracked by a wireless monitor of its nanoclimate.
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