Sponsors
Workshop: September 10, 2024
The Wearable Innovations for Health Equity Workshop, hosted jointly by Georgia Tech’s Wearable Intelligent Systems and Healthcare Center, Institute for People and Technology, the Emory Global Diabetes Research Center, and the Georgia Center for Diabetes Translation Research, aims to raise awareness and discuss the transformative impact of wearable technologies in promoting wellness and increasing equitable health outcomes. This event will gather impacted community members, researchers, engineers, and practitioners to discuss the use of wearable devices across diverse populations, bridging data gaps for inclusive healthcare, supporting age equity through innovation, empowering minority health, and tailoring wearable technologies to meet gender-specific health needs. The workshop will feature two keynote speakers addressing wearable technological innovations in the morning and health equity challenges in the afternoon.
Participants from institutions, such as Georgia Tech, Emory University, Georgia State University, Morehouse School of Medicine, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and University of Georgia will provide insights into their ongoing projects, offering a perspective on the funding environment and new collaboration opportunities ideal for wearable device and technology applications. The workshop is designed to highlight the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration, emphasizing people-centered approaches and the conversion of foundational research into actionable solutions.
An overview session will explore ways to support new initiatives and collaborations. Additionally, a potential panel session will include voices from impacted community members. These discussions will focus on managing chronic conditions using both sophisticated and simple technological solutions. The event will also include poster sessions, allowing participants to exhibit their innovative research and applications in wearable technologies.
Questions? Contact Josh Lee, Research Program Manager, slee870@gatech.edu
REGISTRATION, AGENDA, AND SPEAKER INFO SHOWN BELOW. (Registration includes lunch!).
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION
Date: September 10, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Location: Technology Square Research Building (TSRB)
Registration costs and registration links are below.
Registration includes lunch!
TSRB street address: 85 5th St NW, Atlanta, GA 30332
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Public/Industry/University Ticket ($50)
Includes Emory, Morehouse, UGA, GSU, Kennesaw, etc.
Student Ticket ($25)
Includes Students from Emory, Morehouse, UGA, GSU, Kennesaw, etc.
Georgia Tech Student/Faculty/Staff ($25/$50)
Submit a research abstract here!
Are you a researcher interested in presenting during this event? Please complete our presenter registration form (link below). We are accepting both oral and poster abstracts. Questions? Contact Josh Lee, Research Program Manager, slee870@gatech.edu
AGENDA
Morning agenda
8:00 - 8:30 am Continental breakfast and registration
8: 30 - 9:00 am Welcome
9:00 - 10:00 am Emerging Wearable Tech - morning keynote
Wei Gao, Professor, Medical Engineering, CalTech
10:30 - 11:30 am Lighting talks
11:30 - 1:00 pm Poster session
12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch provided! Poster session ongoing.
Afternoon agenda
1:00 - 2:00 pm Panel: The Real Experts: Health wearable users and their realities
Moderator:
Francisco Pasquel, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine and Global Health, Emory University
Panelists:
Georgia Davis, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Aijah Chappel
2:30 - 3:30 pm Health Equity and Wearables - afternoon keynote
Tabia Henry Akintobi, Professor, Dir. of the Prevention Research Center, Morehouse School of Medicine
3:30 - 4:30 pm Panel: Future Research, What’s Next
Moderator:
Jessica Alvarez, Associate Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Panelists:
Jennifer DuBose, Associate Director of the SimTigrate Design Lab, Georgia Tech
Nathan W. Moon, Dir. of Research, Center for Advanced Communications Policy, Georgia Tech
Omer Inan, Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech
4:30 - 6:00 pm Reception and networking
Wei Gao, Ph.D.
Morning Keynote Speaker
Wei Gao
Professor, Medical Engineering; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute;
and Ronald and JoAnne Willens Scholar,
California Institute of Technology
Bio: Wei Gao is professor of medical engineering, Ronald and JoAnne Willens Scholar, and Investigator: Heritage Medical Research Institute, at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the University of California, San Diego in 2014. In 2014–2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an associate editor of Science Advances, npj Flexible Electronics, and Sensors & Diagnostics. He is a recipient of NSF Career Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, IAMBE Early Career Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award, IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award, IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, ACS DIC Young Investigator Award, and Materials Today Rising Star Award. He is a World Economic Forum Young Scientist, a member of Global Young Academy, and a Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science). His research interests include wearable sensors, bioelectronics, flexible electronics, and micro/nanorobotics. For more information about Gao's research, visit gao.caltech.edu.
Tabia Henry Akintobi, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Afternoon Keynote Speaker
Tabia Henry Akintobi
Professor and Chair, Community Health and Preventive Medicine, and
Director of the Prevention Research Center,
Morehouse School of Medicine
Bio: Akintobi is a professor within the Morehouse School of Medicine’s Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and serves as director of its Prevention Research Center (PRC), funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is also director of Morehouse School of Medicine's Evaluation and Institutional Assessment. These leadership posts build upon her role in establishing The PRC's Evaluation Unit, which has demonstrated assessment capacities through leading the evaluation of several NIH research, training and infrastructure grants, among others awarded by federal, non-governmental, and private foundations, through the provision of program evaluation capacity building and technical assistance to community‐based organizations, public health practitioners, academicians, researchers, and health care organizations conducting initiatives to address chronic health disparities or to conduct effective research translation. She conducts these activities incorporating expertise in the areas of community-engaged research, social marketing, and participatory mixed-methods evaluation.
