TWO DAYS WORKSHOP on Point of Care Healthcare Technologies
on 23-24 March 2015
Venue: ESB-II Seminar Hall, MSRIT Campus, Bangalore, India
Time: 9.00AM TO 5P.M
Organized by
IEEE EMBS Bangalore Chapter
in association with IEEE Bangalore Section
Theme: LOW COST HEALTHCARE DELIVERY FOR RURAL INDIA
This workshop is being organized to emphasize on the flagship theme of IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Chapter. The workshop will focus on innovation, research, technology
development and best practices in deployment of health monitoring technologies in developing and
developed economies for better global healthcare.
About Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society
(Your global connection to the world of biomedical engineering)
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) is the world's largest international
society of biomedical engineers. The organization's 9,100 members reside in some 97 countries
around the world. EMBS provides its members with access to the people, practices, information,
ideas and opinions that are shaping one of the fastest growing fields in science. The IEEE EMBS
Bangalore Chapter is very active in organizing various technical events this year to promote the field
of biomedical and clinical engineering. The chapter has received the IEEE-EMBS Outstanding
Chapter Club Award for the year 2014
About IEEE EMBS MSRIT Chapter
The IEEE EMB Student Chapter of M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology has been initiated to bring
together students working in the varied domains relevant to Medical Science and Technology aspire
to ameliorate the status of Biomedical Engineering, make the Biomedical Engineering students,
cognizant of the scopes of this multidisciplinary field and effectuate a sense of professionalism in
them. This is the place where students can apply their electronics, electrical, computer or design
skills in Medical field and improve healthcare technology. Our goal is to provide students with a
platform through which they can interact with clinicians and take up engineering projects in
community services that will address the real problems in healthcare domain.
Technical standard are essential to improving healthcare. For health IT to reduce medical
errors and risk to patient safety, improve access to medical records, support innovations in
individual based care, its tools must adhere to certain data interchange standards
Confirmed Speakers:
May D. Wang, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Joint Department of
Biomedical Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Winship Institute, Institute
for Bioengineering and Biosciences, and Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Institute of
Technology and Emory University, USA. She is a Kavli Fellow, a Georgia Research Alliance
Distinguished Cancer Scholar, a fellow of The American Institute for Biological and Medical
Engineering (AIMBE), Biocomputing and Bioinformatics Core Director in Emory-Georgia-Tech
Cancer Nanotechnology Center, Co-Director of Georgia-Tech Center of Bio-Imaging Mass
Spectrometry, and Co-Director of Biomedical Informatics Program of Georgia Tech in Atlanta
Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
Prof. Wang’s research is in Biomedical Big Data analytics with a focus on Biomedical and Health
Informatics (BHI) for Personalized and Predictive Health. Her research includes high throughput
NGS and -omic data mining to identify clinical biomarkers, bionanoinformatics, pathological
imaging informatics to assist clinical diagnosis, critical and chronic care health informatics for
evidence-based decision making, and predictive systems modeling to improve health outcome. Prof.
Wang published 160+ peer-reviewed articles in BHI. She is the corresponding/co-corresponding
author for articles published in Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, Journal of
Biomedical and Health Informatics, Briefings in Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, Journal of
Pathology Informatics, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics,
Proceedings of The IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, BMC Medical
Imaging, Annals of BME, Trends in Biotechnology, Nature Protocols, Proceedings of National Academy
of Sciences, Annual Review of Medicine, Circulation Genetics, and Nanomedicine etc. She has led
RNA-data analysis investigation within FDA-led Sequencing Consortium (SEQC). Dr. Wang has
devoted to training of young generation of data scientists and engineers, and received GeorgiaTech’s Outstanding Faculty Mentor for Undergraduate Research Award in 2005.
Currently, Prof. Wang serves as the Senior Editor for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health
Informatics (J-BHI), an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME),
and an Emerging Area Editor for Proceedings of National Academy of Science (PNAS). She also
serves as IEEE EMBS Biomedical and Health Informatics Technical Committee Chair. She is an
IEEE-EMBS 2014-2015 Distinguished Lecturer, and an EMBS Administrative Committee Officer
representing North America
Ravi Ramaswamy heads the Health Systems team at the Philips Innovation Campus
at Bangalore, India. He is also deeply involved in creating products and solutions for the
underserved segment in emerging geographies. The solutions would be on par with international
standards of quality as also affordable. Ravi is member of the India Healthcare Management team
and the Management team of PIC.Born in Trivandrum in 1961, Ravi completed his Electrical and
Electronics Engineering (BE, 1982, REC Nagpur) and then Masters in Engineering Management
(1990, NIE, Mysore University). He started his career with L&T in 1982, then moved on to GE in
2000 and then to Philips in 2010. His experience covers R&D, Operations, Finance, Strategic
Planning, Project Management and Product Management. He has also worked in several domains
like Computer peripherals, Consumer electronics, Defence electronics, Telecommunications,
Medical electronics as also IBM Mainframe environments. His primary expertise is to conceive and
develop “value” solutions for India and other emerging markets.
Ravi has been a task force member of several Government committees – notable ones being with
Department of Electronics in formulating long term strategies for localization of computer
peripherals in India. He is a regular speaker in Indian / International Conferences on Healthcare.
Mr. Padmanabha Holla is a seasoned software professional holding a bachelor’s
degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Mysore University. He is a certified Design for Six
Sigma (DFSS) Black Belt. He also holds a PMP (Project Management Professional)certification from
Project Management Institute.Mr. Holla is one of the co-founder of Forus Health Pvt. Ltd. He was
instrumental insuccessfully overseeing the start-up phase of the company. Mr. Holla has managed
People,Process, Product, Information Technology, Engineering, Quality, Human Resources and
branding of this revolutionary Healthcare Company. Forus introduced the firstindigenously
developed pre-screening ophthalmology device called 3nethra in India andreceived more than a
dozen awards within the first two years of its incorporation.
The most relevant value that Mr. Holla brings in is his multi-faceted expertise of managing
a healthcare start-up. He likes to play chess, listening to self-help audio books, keeping abreast of
technology and philosophy on the web.
Dr. Shyam Vasudeva Rao is the president and CTO of Forus Healthcare Pvt
Ltd, Bangalore. He is also serving as vice chairman of IEEE EMBS Bangalore Chapter. He
holds a doctorate in Real Time Embedded Systems, specialising in Parallel Computer
Architecture from Indian Institute of Science (gold Medal) & has been with CG Smith,
Ericsson, Tata Consultancy Services and Philips. He was instrumental in devising one of
the first hardware based antivirus solution in 90s. At Tata Consulting Services as Product
Manager, Dr. Shyam spearheaded their new product development initiatives, including the
product development programs on Wireless Communications and Medical Electronics. He
was involved in university relationships for joint research programs with IISc Bangalore &
IIT Mumbai and Alborg University in Denmark to work on wireless technology and medical
electronics. During his stint at Ericsson, Dr. Shyam was responsible for building a
technical team of 100+ engineers, involved in the execution of their product development
activities at Bangalore. While at Ericsson, he was on a special assignment at their head
office in Stockholm, as a Strategic Product Manager for over 2 years. This involved building
revenues and profits, through innovative and creative business strategies and extensive
customer-centric business analysis
Proposed Schedule: POCHT 2015
DAY01-23 March 2015
DAY02-24 March 2015
Time Slot
Speaker
Time Slot
Speaker
10:15-11am
Inauguration
10:15-11am
Forus Invited Talk2
11:15-12:15pm
Invited Talk by Prof
May Wang
11:15-12:15pm
Forus Invited Talk3
12:15-12:45
Philips Invited Talk1
12:15-12:45
Commn Disability Group
Talk2
12:45-1:15
Forus Invited Talk1
12:45-1:15
SIGHT Chapter Talk
1:45-2:15
Philips Invited Talk2
1:45-2:15
Start up Talk3&4
2:15-2:45
Commn Disability
Group Talk1
2:15-2:45
Invited Talk by Dr Manish
2:45-3:15pm
Students Perspective
on POC
2:45-3:15pm
Clinician Perspective-POC
3:15-4:15pm
Concluding Remarks and
future perspectives
4:15-4:45pm
Funding Opportunities
3:15-4:15pm
Panel Discussion
4:15-4:45pm
Start ups Talk1& 2
4:45-5:45pm
Poster Presentation&
Discussion
Registration Details
IEEE & EMB members: NIL;
non-IEEE student: Rs 250;
faculty & researchers: Rs 500
Only registered participants is permitted for this workshop
The registration fee shall be paid through demand draft in favour of “IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Bangalore Chapter” payable at
Bangalore or by Bank transfer to:
Account Name: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Bangalore Chapter
Account No.: 141200301000176;
IFSC Code: VIJB0001412
MICR Code: 560029070
Spot registration is also allowed based on prior intimation and submission of registration form. Those who wish to pay by
cash can do the payment on the first day of the event.
For other details further information contact:
Dr. Sriraam
Chairman, IEEE-EMBS, Bangalore Chapter
Professor and Head,Dept. of Medical Electronics
M. S. RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
MSRIT Post, MSR Nagar, Bangalore – 560064, INDIA
Email: sriraam@msrit.edu; Mob:9632294999
Ms. Supriya Babu
Secretary, IEEE - EMBS, Bangalore Chapter
Asst. Professor,
Dept. of Medical Electronics
Email:supriyababu@msrit.edu
M: 9886062127
Ms. Prabha Ravi
Execom Member, IEEE - EMBS, Bangalore Chapter
Asst. Professor,
Dept. of Medical Electronics
Email: prabharavi@msrit.edu
M: 9845696372
Important Date : Last date for Registration: 20 March 2015
Convener
Dr. N.Sriraam
Chairman, IEEE-EMBS, Bangalore Chapter
Prof. & Head, Medical Electronics, MSRIT
E-mail: sriraam@msrit.edu
Organizing Committee
Dr. Shyam Vasudev Rao
Vice-chairman, IEEE-EMBS, Bangalore Chapter
Mrs Supriya BabyMrs Prabha Ravi
Secretary, IEEE-EMBS, Bangalore Chapter
Mr Adithya Pasupuleti
Treasurer, IEEE-EMBS, Bangalore Chapter
Dr.Jagdish Chaturvedi
Joint Secretary, IEEE-EMBS, Bangalore Chapter
Dr. Sudarshan Rao
Joint Secretary, IEEE-EMBS, Bangalore Chapter
Dr.Niranjan.U.C
Executive member, IEEE-EMBS, Bangalore Chapteru
Mrs Supriya BabyMrs Prabha Ravi
Secretary, IEEE-EMBS, Bangalore Chapter
Mrs. Prabhu Ravikala Vittal, MSRIT
Executive member, IEEE-EMBS, Bangalore Chapter
Ms Sumbul Zahra Naqvi
Executive member, IEEE-EMBS, Bangalore Chapter
Ms.Sravani Sreeram
Executive member, IEEE-EMBS, Bangalore Chapter