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Wednesday, July 1       7:00am - 8:00am

Wireless Medical Devices for Body-area Networking

 

Don Shaver, Ph.D.
Director, Communications and Medical Systems Laboratory
Texas Instruments

We are about to experience remarkable and vast improvements in physicians’ abilities to monitor patients’ body functions in real time, thanks to the development of wearable and implantable short-range wireless communication devices. For example, tests are currently underway on wireless sensors to monitor things such as cardiac arrhythmia, glucose levels, blood pressure and muscle tension, plus providing remote control of neurostimulators, pacemakers and insulin pumps.

Texas Instruments is taking a leading position in wireless medical devices. In this presentation, TI’s Don Shaver will examine the technological challenges to achieving the device performance required for body-area networking.

Don Shaver has been with Texas Instruments for 32 years, and has held positions in both TI advanced product development and R&D organizations. For the past 20 years, Don managed leading edge technology development initiatives in TI R&D organizations. He is the director of TI’s Communications and Medical Systems Laboratory, which develops applications based on TI semiconductors and embedded processors, advanced signal processing algorithms and systems-on-a-chip technologies. Don holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Systems and Information Science, all from Syracuse University. Don is vice-chair of the IEEE Computer Society Dallas Chapter and a Senior IEEE Member. 

 

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