NAVIGATING INDUSTRY HEALTH TECH CHALLENGES
Engineering and Information Technology are crucial for the future of medicine. Commercialising new products, while ensuring data privacy and meeting varying legal requirements and safety standards, can be daunting. Having the right team to overcome these challenges can de-risk and fast-track the journey from lab bench to market. Join University of Melbourne’s Engineering and Information Technology experts, who successfully navigated the multifaceted nature of health tech challenges to bring the future a little closer.
Professor Andrea O'Connor, an esteemed biomedical engineering expert will lead the panel discussion, with an opportunity for networking before and after the event over food and drinks.
The panel discussion will include:
Dr. Pip Karoly: Discussing collaboration and commercialisation journey of a predictive epilepsy management app.
Dr. Anthony Stell: Sharing insights on developing clinical informatics platforms and managing large-scale data exchanges while adhering to global privacy regulations.
Professor Peter Lee: Perspectives on navigating regulatory landscapes in personalised medical implant technology through university-industry partnerships.
DATE
03/09/24
TIME
5.30PM - 7.30PM
THE STUDIO, MELBOURNE CONNECT
WHERE
MEET THE PANEL
Dr Pip Karoly is a senior lecturer in Biomedical Engineering and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow’ at The University of Melbourne. Her research group studies physiological rhythms, with a focus on epilepsy and translational clinical software. She has worked with several industry partners to research epilepsy and develop novel medical technologies for seizure management, including mobile, wearable and brain implant devices. Dr Karoly was awarded the 2022 Prime Minister's Prize for New Innovators breakthrough scientific research into epilepsy and the development and commercialisation of a seizure risk forecasting app that allows people living with epilepsy to track their likelihood of having a seizure across hourly, daily or monthly timescales.
Professor Peter Lee is the Director of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Training Centre for Medical Implant Technologies, an industry-university-hospital partnership focusing on orthopaedic and maxillofacial implants. The Centre aims to train interdisciplinary engineers in biomechanics, materials and medical device manufacturing. Professor Peter Lee research focuses on biomechanics of the human body, organs, tissues and cells, contributing to a wide range of interdisciplinary research fields in biomedical engineering. Professor Lee is currently a member of the Advisory Committee on Medical Devices that provides independent advice to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) on the safety and performance of medical devices in Australia.
Dr Anthony Stell is the Clinical Research Platform Manager of the Melbourne eResearch Group at the University of Melbourne. In his research Dr Stell develops clinical informatics platforms, data linkage and large-scale data exchanges for complex clinical conditions including brain injury, adrenal cancer and diabetes. Dr Stell has established developed and managed several global, multi-centre clinical informatics platforms to support both rare conditions across Europe and North America and common conditions in Australia and New Zealand. His research includes ensuring the requirements of privacy legislation, such as the European GDPR and Australasia legislative domains, are met in current clinical registries whilst still delivering meaningful clinical insight. Dr Stell has published his challenges and perspectives on how to move away from the most prevalent model of centralised data in high profile publications.
Professor Andrea O’Connor is the Shanahan Chair in Frontier Medical Solutions and a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and leads the Tissue Engineering Group at the University of Melbourne. Her research is focussed on design, synthesis and fabrication of biomaterials, porous materials and antimicrobial nanomaterials. She focuses on strategies for scale-up of tissue engineering including vascularisation, and design of antimicrobial materials. Professor O’Connor is the Co-Director of the Victorian Medtech Skills and Devices Hub and Chair of the Research Committee for the Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery, which will develop innovations in Medtech, Biotech and Digital Health to address Australia’s health and healthcare challenges. She collaborates with a range of hospitals, medical research institutes and medical device companies to improve existing products, develop new devices and solve clinical problems.
