Innovations in MedTech for Women's Health

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Innovations in MedTech for Women's Health

Join us for the next MedTech Links event, this round focusing on Imperial innovations around Women's Health. Many conditions under the women's health umbrella are often underfunded, understudied and misunderstood. This event aims to showcase the work being undertaken at Imperial to improve diagnostics, treatments and interventions, and long-term solutions for women's health conditions, to give insight into work being undertaken to reduce the effects of sex and gender on healthcare, and to provide opportunities for our innovators to network with an invited audience from industry.

Monday 20th April, 13:00 - 18:30, with Reception from 17:00

Venue: Royal School of Mines, Imperial, South Kensington, SW7 2AZ

Programme

13:00 – 13:45 RSM 3.01 Registration, Lunch & Exhibition

13:45 – 14:00 RSM 2.28 INTRODUCTION & KEYNOTE:

"Women's Health: From Unmet Needs to User-Centred Solutions?"

THEME 1: POLICY, FUNDING & THE LANDSCAPE OF WOMEN’S HEALTH

Chair: Dr Celine Mougenot

14:00 – 14:15 "What's Sex (and Gender) Got to Do With It? Rethinking Women's Health Innovation"

14:15 – 14:30 “Women’s Health: Building the evidence base for better outcomes - with Industry”

14:30 – 14:45 "Strategic developments in Women's Health: Imperial, England, and beyond"

14:45 – 15:30 Break & Exhibition

THEME 2: DIAGNOSTICS & DIGITAL APPLICATIONS FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH

Chair: Professor Jimmy Moore

15:30 – 15:45 "A wearable device to prevent epidural-related maternal hyperthermia"

15:45 – 16:00 & "Translating Rapid Mass Spectrometry into clinical decision-making for pregnancy care"

16:00 – 16:15 "Intelligent mass spec solutions - Diagnosis and stratification to PCOS"

THEME 3: A LIFE APPROACH TO WOMEN’S HEALTH

Chair: Dr Carinna Hockham

16:15 – 16:30 "Technologies for Lymphoedema in Breast Cancer Patients”

16:30 – 16:45 "Understanding why bones break in Osteoporosis to improve treatment." Co-authored by Dr Richie Stavri and Prof Cheryl Ackert-Bicknell

16:45 – 17:00 "From Measurement to Management: Evaluating Sex-Based Variability in Cardiomyopathy"

17:00 – 17:15 Dr Anna Stejskalova “Organ Chip Models for Reproductive and Global Health”

17:15 – 18:30/19:00 Reception & Exhibition

Programme available here: MedTech Links: Innovations in MedTech for Women's Health (PDF)

Registration is now closed.

Exhibitors

Woost is dedicated to creating a paradigm shift in the diagnosis of gynaecological conditions with the use of menstrual blood testing. Close to 400M women worldwide suffer from PCOS, a chronic, symptom-heavy disease with links to diabetes, infertility, CVD and cancer; nevertheless, it takes 3+ doctor visits leading to 2-8 years to get a diagnosis. Woost are developing home-centred care and testing solutions to track key biomarkers in menstrual blood to significantly reduce diagnosis time of PCOS from >2 years on average to <6 months.

Woost are devoted to building a community, in which women’s health concerns are effectively targeted and more importantly, being heard.