Todd Giorgio, professor of biomedical engineering, has been selected by the Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K) to attend a Mobile Health Training Institute at UCLA July 29-Aug. 3.
The summer institute seeks to advance biomedical discovery and improve health through mobile sensor big data.
Participation is limited to 30 scholars for a weeklong immersion program that provides a grounding in the latest mobile health (mHealth) methodologies and contributes to team science. The team will develop mHealth solutions for real-world health problems while building an interdisciplinary scientific network.
MD2K teams design tools to make it easier to gather, analyze and interpret health data generated by mobile and wearable sensors. The goal of the big data solutions being developed by MD2K is to reliably quantify physical, biological, behavioral, social, and environmental factors that contribute to health and disease risk.
Giorgio’s research focuses on the intersection of biomaterials, nanotechnology and immunology. “My interests include teaching wearable technologies in an interdisciplinary context, developing communities to design the next generation of wearables and devices that provide analytics on energy intake and energy expenditure,” said Giorgio.
Read more about Giorgio and his research here.