Program

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

  • 09:00–9:15 Opening Remarks
    Moderators: Metin Akay and Habib Kammoun
  • 09:15–10:45Keynote Talks
    Speakers:
    – Roderic Pettigrew , CEO of EnHealth and Executive Dean for EnMed at Texas A&M University Talk Title: Pursuit of Precision Health: The Digital Twin Opportunity
    – Paul Cunningham, Executive Director, IST-Africa Institute Talk Title: mHealth4Afrika – Co-designing an Integrated Solution for Resource Constrained Environments.
  • 10:45–11:00Coffee Break
  • 11:00–12:30Plenary Talks
    Speakers:
    – Ali Tinazli, CEO, LifeSpine GmbH Talk Title: Pioneering Deep Health: Defining Health and Distinguishing Disease with Metabolomics and Artificial Intelligence at Disruptive Scalability and Cost
    – Colin Brenan, CEO, Kibur Medical Inc. Talk Title: An Approach to Precise, Predictable, and Personalized Cancer Care and Drug Development
  • 12:30–14:30Lunch
  • 14:30-16:00Plenary Talks
    Speakers:
    – Michael Friebe, Innovator, Entrepreneur, Distinguished Professor, Poland and Germany Title Talks: Healthtech Innovation Generation with a Purpose and Method
    – Dimitris Fotiadis, Professor, Innovator and EIC Research Institute, FORTH-IMBB, Ioannina Title Talk: Precision medicine through health data integration: the PRECIOUS example
  • 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
  • 16:30-18:00IEEE EMBS Tunisia Technical Student Challenge HealthTech Innovations for Enhanced Remote Patient Care

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

  • 09:00–10:30Plenary Talks
    Speakers:
    – Nicolai Spicher, Head of Junior Research Group, Biosignal Processing, University of Gottingen Talk Title: Explainable AI in biomedical signal processing: Do the features of Deep Neural Networks agree with clinical guidelines?
    – Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, Professor, University of Freiburg Talk Title: “Data Handling in Brain-Computer Interfaces Designed for Neurorehabilitation
    – Rosa Chan, Associate Professor, Department of EE, City University of Hong Kong Title Talk: Computational Neuroscience for Translational Innovations in Healthcare and Assistive Technologies
  • 10:30–11:00Coffee Break
  • 11:00–12:30Plenary Talks
    Speakers:
    – May Wang, The Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Professor Georgia Distinguished Cancer Scholar, Kavli Fellow Talk Title: Translating AI for Precision Medicine
    – Yasemin M. Akay, Associate Professor, UH Biomedical Engineering Talk Title: Investigating the Effect of Perinatal Nicotine Exposure on Dopamine Neurons in VTA using miRNA Expression
    – Uwe Kersting, Neuromechanics and Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Institute of Biomechanics and Orthopaedics German Sport University Cologne Talk Title: Integration of quantitative medical imaging, artificial intelligence, and 3D movement analysis – A data-driven approach
  • 12:30–14:00Lunch
  • 14:00-15:00Career Development Panel
    – Roderic Pettigrew (CEO of EnHealth and Executive Dean for EnMed at Texas A&M University, USA)
    – Ali Tinazli (CEO, LifeSpine GmbH, Germany)
    – Colin Brenan (CEO, Kibur Medical Inc., USA)
    – TBA (Tunisia)
    Moderators: Metin Akay and Habib Kammoun