Event Time: 6:00 -
Event Location: Portland State University, Smith Memorial Union, Room 238 NW corner of SW Harrison and SW Broadway
The Oregon Chapter of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) announces the following presentation on Wednesday evening, March 25, 2009:
TITLE: ORCATECH: New Models for Community Based Technology Assisted Health Research
PRESENTER: Jeffrey Kaye, M.D.
ABSTRACT: The challenges of aging require new approaches to sustaining health and independent living. Evolving home-based technologies such as unobtrusive activity monitoring, medication taking assurance systems, sleep health monitors, and chronic disease management programs can revolutionize our ability to remain healthy and independent. The Oregon Center for Aging & Technology (ORCATECH) is a research consortium which uniquely brings together a broad constituency of organizations across the Northwest to invent, investigate and implement these technology-related solutions for transforming healthcare by sustaining health, improving quality of life and providing life-long independence to our aging population.
ORCATECH seeks to grow investment in, and remove barriers to the fundamental science, the translational research, and the business startup breakthroughs possible in all these areas. A major mechanism for facilitating this goal is through ORCATECH’s unique home-based independent-living research model – the “ORCATECH Living Laboratory” – a network of senior’s homes dedicated to establishing the evidence that technology can be used to sustain independent living. These volunteers provide a readily available resource of technology-enabled homes that is a scalable, flexible test-bed for scientific, clinical, behavioral, and economic research into independent living technologies.
In his presentation, Jeff Kaye will present an overview of ORCATECH and then highlight some on-going research as well as future plans. He will briefly describe a new initiative that may engage older or retired engineers (the “ETHICS” project – the Engineers Technology Health & Independence Consortium Study).
BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Jeffrey Kaye is Professor of Neurology and Biomedical Engineering at the School of Medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU). He is currently the Director of several Oregon centers that focus on aspects of aging, including the Oregon Center for Aging and Technology (ORCATECH), Roybal Center for Translational Research on Aging, and Layton Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Center. His research has included studies of cognitive decline and anatomical brain changes during normal and abnormal aging processes.
DATE AND TIMES: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
6:00 social/pizza
6:30 EMBS Chapter meeting (and possible election of new slate of officers)
6:45 talk
7:45 post-talk socializing
COST: Free and open to the public.
LOCATION:
Portland State University, Smith Memorial Union, Room 238
NW corner of SW Harrison and SW Broadway
PARKING: (closest lot is Parking Structure 1 with entrance on 6th between Hall and Harrison)
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CONTACT
Jeff Eriksen
Acting Chair, EMBS Oregon Section
eriksenj@bme.ogi.edu
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