An online scientific seminar series focused on motor neurone disease (MND) Research. Hear from national experts and emerging leaders in MND research including the latest clinical trials, drug developments, pre-clinical models, discovery research and collaborative platforms. Learn, connect and share with the Australian MND research community.
For enquiries related to the seminar series, please contact: Dr Sarah Bennett
Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) has a proven ability to significantly improve and extend life for people with MND, however ventilators can often fall “out of synch” with a person’s breathing. When this happens, compliance drops significantly, as the person can’t sleep, and the benefits of NIV go unrealised. To fix this – to “re-synch” the ventilator – takes a large amount of time and work from a specialist expert, so we’re building an AI program to do this “re-synching” instead. In this presentation we’ll describe the challenges in building this program, from both the clinical and engineering sides, and the successful developments achieved to date.
Dr Anthony Stell is Head of Clinical Informatics at the Melbourne eResearch Group, based at the University of Melbourne. His team provide a data and technology development service, building distributed platforms that allow clinical researchers across the globe to use the latest in cutting-edge technology. With a strong focus on practical outputs, his team respond to the latest technology trends, such as the rapid growth in implementable AI, to understand it’s impact on clinical research and society as whole. He holds a PhD in Clinical Physics from the University of Glasgow and is a registered Chartered IT Professional (CITP) with the British Computing Society.
David Berlowitz
Professor David Berlowitz holds a joint appointment from The University of Melbourne and Austin Health in Melbourne. David’s clinical practice and research addresses the causes and treatments of sleep and breathing disorders in neuromuscular disease, especially motor neurone disease and after spinal cord injury. David’s research encompasses epidemiology, sleep and respiratory physiology, imaging, clinical trials, machine-learning, and implementation science. David has substantial expertise as a clinical trialist having been an investigator on 43 competitively funded, investigator-initiated clinical trials, led 26 as CIA, with 22 being multi-centre and 9 multi-national.
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