MedTech Innovation - Bench to Bed side

Dr. Jagdish Chaturvedi, Director, Clinical Innovation, InnAccel

Dr. Jagdish Chaturvedi is an ENT surgeon trained at St. John's Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore, a Stanford-India Biodesign (SIB) Fellow 2012, and holds an MBA degree in Entrepreneurship and Hospital Management (NIBM). His core expertise lies in the process of identifying and analyzing unmet clinical needs for quick development of low-cost and high quality medical devices. Since 2010, he has co-invented, developed and commercialized multiple affordable medical devices.

A Vijayarajan, Founder, CTO, InnAccel

A. Vijayarajan (AVR) is a medical technology veteran with over 30+ years experience. He was head of Product Development at GE Medical Systems and created India’s first indigenously developed MedTech product. He also led the development of India’s first robotic system for tumor ablation at Perfint Healthcare, one of India’s leading MedTech startups. AVR’s vast experience includes the positions of Chief Executive, Health Sciences (Wipro) and Vice President (Hewlett Packard).

Enabling Ability in Disability through Standards and Technology

College of Engineering Student Chapter along with IEEE Standards Association is organizing a b-eCare 2015 Preconference one day workshop on Enabling Ability in Disability through Technology and Standards focused on Speech and Hearing disabilities. Workshop would have Clinicians speak in the first half on the technological needs and the second half would concentrate on panel sessions deliberating on the challenges and opportunities by Industry Professionals, User Community, Academicians and Clinicians. This is an excellent platform to understand the technically focused use cases directly from the experts and service providers of the Communication Disabled community. This is a very good opportunity for Researchers, Professionals focused on Healthcare Applications and equipment and the student community.

In vivo Assessment of Retinal Vessel Oxygen Saturation - Future Landscape

Retinal vessels provide a unique opportunity to visualise circulation through the window of the pupils. Information regarding diseases related to circulation and vascular disorders are often identified by the observation of retinal vessels, which leads to speedy and appropriate treatment for patients. Quite often it is the ophthalmologist who first diagnoses a systemic vascular disorder based on eye examination. The appearance of retinal vessels can contribute to the assessment, monitoring and grading of noteworthy systemic disorders such as hypertension, arteriosclerosis, and diabetic retinopathy. Analysis of hemodynamics in the retina vasculature provides potentially helpful information and clues for understanding the pathogenesis of retinal vascular disorders such as diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, retinal vein occlusion, ocular inflammation, autoimmune disease, HIV, hematologic disorders.

There are numerous invasive and non-invasive approaches which have been evaluated for assessment of blood vessels or dynamic blood flow, including fundus fluorescein angiogram, dye dilution technique, blue field entoptic phenomenon, laser Doppler velocimetry, laser speckle phenomenon, optical coherence tomography (OCT), angioOCT and adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO). Most of these techniques can be employed to assess the blood flow in the retina.

Erythrocytes or Red blood cells (RBCs) are the powerhouse of the oxygen in the circulation. Most of the commercially available techniques though monitor blood flow and retinal vasculature, are not able to precisely monitor the blood corpuscles in the retinal capillary or microcirculation. Retinal circulation being the ‘end circulation’, it is representative of the systemic microcirculation. Monitoring movement and function of erythrocytes in retinal vessels and evaluating the hemodynamics of microcirculation using high resolution in vivo scanning laser ophthamoscope can give us broader opportunity to provide functional mapping of the retina.

The proposed deliberation on future landscape for in vivo assessment of retinal oxygen saturation will based on the existing tools and exploring the novel ways to create a functional map of the retina.