Dr. Omer T.

Inan
Visiting Scholar Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University February 20 MEB 2325 3:00 p.m.

Innovative Technologies for Enabling Proactive Cardiovascular Care

ABSTRACT:
By 2030, the American Heart Association projects that 40% of Americans (150 million) will suffer from cardiovascular disease and the annual costs will approach $1 trillion. Cardiovascular monitoring at home could improve the quality of care and life for these millions of patients, and reduce healthcare costs for all Americans. Rather than reacting to catastrophic cardiac events such as heart attacks or strokes in the emergency room, care could be delivered proactively by tailoring treatment strategies to the changing needs of the patients. To accelerate this transition from reactive to proactive care, a new class of biomedical devices must be researched. These devices would leverage advances in embedded systems and sensor technology to achieve accurate and robust monitoring of clinically relevant parameters in the home. This talk focuses primarily on one such device: a modified electronic weighing scale designed to monitor the electrical and mechanical health of the heart. With this scale, changes in bodyweight were measured resulting from the movement of blood throughout the vasculature, and specific features of this ac weight signal were mapped to key clinical markers of cardiovascular health. Subsequently, multiple clinical studies with healthy and diseased populations were conducted in collaboration with cardiologists in the Medical School and local clinics to demonstrate the efficacy of this device for home health monitoring.
___________________________ Biography of Omer Inan Omer T. Inan received the BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2004, 2005, and 2009, respectively. Since 2009, he has continued at Stanford as Visiting Scholar in Electrical Engineering while working as Chief Engineer at Countryman Associates, a leading manufacturer of professional audio equipment. From 2006-07, he worked at ALZA Corporation (A Johnson and Johnson Company), where he designed micropower, high efficiency circuits for iontophoretic drug delivery. Dr. Inan has published nearly 30 technical articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, and is an inventor on three pending patents. He is serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal on Biomedical and Health Informatics, and as an Associate Editor for the upcoming 2013 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference. From 1999-2004, he participated in track and field, and was a three-time NCAA All-American in the discus throw, co-captain of the Stanford University Track and Field Team, and was ranked top 20 in the world in his age group for three consecutive years.

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