Speaker: Giovanna Guidoboni, PhD – Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering
Noon to 1 p.m.
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
This is a virtual seminar via Zoom. Please register and access information will be sent to your email before the event.
Engineering has enabled a true revolution of how we approach health today, from telehealth to smart watches. Mizzou Engineering is ready to collaborate across disciplines to enable precision health. In this talk, Dr. Giovanna Guidoboni will share how engineers are analyzing and interpreting medical images, developing home sensors that monitor disease conditions, designing new biomaterials for novel treatments, and analyzing Big Data to connect the wide spectrum of information available for a single patient.
About the Speaker
Dr. Giovanna Guidoboni is Associate Dean of Research in the College of Engineering and a Professor with joint appointments in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mathematics. Her research focus is on mathematical modeling and data science applied to engineering and life sciences. She collaborates with colleagues across campus, nationally and internationally in areas such as ocular blood flow and risk factors associated with ocular diseases; noninvasive health monitoring; and plant physiology. She is currently providing mathematical modeling for research around organ function and COVID-19. Dr. Guidoboni has a PhD in Mathematics and an MS in Engineering of Materials from the University of Ferrara in Italy.
For more information:
please visit the event page on the NextGen Precision Health website.
The NextGen Precision Health Discovery Series provides learning opportunities for UM System faculty and staff across disciplines, the statewide community and our other partners to learn about the scope of precision health research and identify potential collaborative opportunities.
For questions about this event or any others in the Discovery Series, please reach out to Mary Hindle at hindlem@health.missouri.edu