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Invited Talk |
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The need for non-invasive tools in Pediatric Pulmonology
Prof. Dr. Urs Frey
Abstract There is an urgent need in paediatrics for means to non-invasively monitor a variety of physiological signals and measurements of lung function. Among the tools of interest are those which enable us to study the interaction between muscle activity and breathing, and to assess maturational stages in infant breathing. In this talk, a few examples will be presented where biomedical engineering could meet clinical needs, including the study of fluctuations for long-term monitoring of disease and prediction of adverse events.
Biography Urs Frey is head of the Division of Paediatric
Pulmonology at the University Children’s Hospital in Bern, Switzerland.
He completed his training in paediatrics and paediatric pulmonology at
this hospital after a research fellowship in Biomedical Engineering
(Boston University, Boston, USA) and two clinical and research
fellowships in Paediatric Pulmonology (Royal Postgraduate Medical
School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK and Department of Child Health,
University of Leicester, UK). In 1997, he completed his PhD thesis on
high speed interrupter technique in infants at the University of
Leicester, UK. In 2005, he was appointed Professor of Paediatric
Pulmonology at the
University of Bern, Switzerland. Besides his focus on infant and child
respiratory physiology, he is interested in the development of risk
prediction models in complex diseases such as asthma, asthma
epidemiology - especially the influence of genetic and environmental
determinants on respiratory disease and lung growth - and development
and standardisation of lung function techniques. Urs Frey is an active
editorial board member of the European Respiratory Journal and serves
the Swiss National Science Foundation among other committees. |
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Volker Koch, 12/2009 |