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SUMMARY:Sustainable robotic devices for personalized medical assistance - 
 Dr Dana Damian\, University Sheffield
DTSTART:20151201T160000Z
DTEND:20151201T163000Z
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CONTACT:Josie Hughes
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: One of the next technological frontiers in medicine 
 is the realization of personalized robots that integrate seamlessly and sy
 nergistically with the human to perform repair or augmentation of biologic
 al functions over extended period of time. In this talk I will introduce t
 wo types of robotic devices that act as prostheses inside and outside the 
 human body\, emphasizing on their specific biology-imposed challenges and 
 on technological approaches for personalized medical assistance. I will fo
 cus on a new class of medical robots\, robotic implants\, that autonomousl
 y grows tissues in vivo\, applied to the treatment of esophageal atresia.\
 n\nBio: Dana D. Damian is a Lecturer in Automatic Control and System Engin
 eering Department at the University Sheffield and Centre of Assistive Tech
 nology and Connected Healthcare (CATCH) in Sheffield\, U.K.. Previously\, 
 she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital\, H
 arvard University. She obtained her Ph.D. at University of Zurich in 2012.
  During her Ph.D. she was a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University a
 nd Stanford University in 2011\, and Carnegie Mellon University in 2012. H
 er research interest is to create sustainable robots for personalized heal
 thcare\, and her focus areas are medical robots and assistive technology.
LOCATION:CUED\, LR10
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