The IASTED International Conference on
Telehealth
Telehealth 2006
July 3 – 5, 2006
Banff, Alberta, Canada
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare Monitoring
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Biography of the Keynote Speaker
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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