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Dr. Chris Van Hoof
Director Wearable Healthcare
IMEC
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Profile
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Chris Van Hoof is Director of the Body Area Networks activities at imec in Leuven, Belgium and Eindhoven, the Netherlands as well as Program Director of Wearable Healthcare (HUMAN++).
In this program, imec and its industrial partners from across the value chain create and validate solutions at technology, component and application level. Chris Van Hoof has a track record of 20 years of initiating, executing and leading national and international contract R&D at imec. He transferred technology to one startup and delivered space qualified flight hardware to two cornerstone European Space Agency missions.
After a PhD in Electrical Engineering (University of Leuven, 1992), Chris Van Hoof has held positions at imec at manager and director level in diverse technical fields (sensors and imagers, MEMS and autonomous microsystems, wireless sensors, body-area networks). Chris Van Hoof is also full professor at the University of Leuven (KULeuven).
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Abstract
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While medical and technological innovatons have helped to save more and more lives,the introduction of these new methods and technologies has not decreased the cost of care.Disruptive changes are therefore needed to curb the increasing cost while making sure that people get even better care.One of the key disruptions will be the management of health aside from managing illness.Prediction and prevention are the key enablers to move beyond the current approach of managing illness and they are the key ingredients to start managing our health.In this persentation it will be shown where and how sensor and semiconductor technology can help turn this vision into a reality. Wearable and/or disposable sensors that monitor whether you live a healthy life,that assess your stress levels,your paim,your emotions and so on ,are examples of new tools that are moving out of the realm of seience fiction and into everyday reality.Although countless consumer fitness products are indeed emerging on the market,they have limitations in terms of battery life, robustness in daily use,and overall clinical relevance. R&D solutions that overcome these three challenges will be shown.These solutions build on sensor, circuit,system,integration and algorithm level innovations,thereby providing the necessary breakthroughs for marking these devices truly reliable and practical for everyday use.Wearable sensors for fitness, weight and stress management will be presented and the roadmap towards disposable health patches will be discussed.Aside from these non‐invasive wearable solutions,we are working on minimally‐invasive platform technologies to detect cancer as early as possible and to detect disease using intelligent lab‐on‐chip technologies.These platforms require extreme miniaturization of current approaches,and are firmly building on nano‐electronic platform technology.
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