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About the Series
Through our Human Health Impact and Technology series we explore emerging research and application in the rapidly evolving healthtech sector. Host Professor Patricia Maguire chats to leading health and technology innovators conducting cutting-edge research around the world with interactive audience Q&A.
HHIT Series Episode 15: "Neuromuscular Systems and Neural Engineering", with Prof. Madeleine Lowery
Prof. Madeleine Lowery, Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the Head of Subject for Biomedical Engineering at UCD on 19 Nov 2024. Video and top takeaways available soon!
HHIT Series Episode 14: "Automation, robots and care", with Dr. Naonori Kodate
Dr. Naonori Kodate, Associate Professor in Social Policy and Social Robotics in the UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice on 15 Oct 2024. Video and top takeaways available soon!
HHIT Series Episode 13: “Peak Pharma: Why the Pharmaceutical Industry has to change now”, with Prof. Susi Geiger
Prof. Susi Geiger, Full Professor of Markets, Organizations and Society at UCD Smurfit School of Business on 24 Sept 2024. Read the top takeaways from the event.
HHIT Series Episode 12: "Generative AI in the ED - Developing tools to predict the future", with Peter MacMahon
Peter MacMahon, Consultant Radiologist at the Mater Hospital and a Clinical Professor at University College Dublin on May 22 2024. Read the top takeaways from the event.
HHIT Series Episode 11: "environmental chemical exposures across the life course", with Julia Varshavsky
Julia Varshavsky, Assistant Professor in Health Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University on April 23 2024. Read the top takeaways from the event.
HHIT Series Episode 10: "Engineering the Metaverse", with Professor Tahar Kechadi.
Professor Tahar Kechadi, Full Professor in the UCD School of Computer Science, and Principal Investigator at Insight SFI Centre for Data Analytics on February 6th 2024.
Read the top takeaways from the event.
HHIT Series Episode 9: Using Artificial Intelligence and allied technologies to deliver precision endoscopy and imaging to Gastroenterology, with Mike Byrne.
Dr. Michael Byrne, Dr. Michael Byrne, Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia, and CEO/founder of (opens in a new window)Satisfai Health on November 21st, 2023. Read the top takeaways from the event.
HHIT Series Episode 8: Childhood obesity, cystic fibrosis and healthcare worker burnout, with Gerardine Doyle
Prof. Gerardine Doyle, Full Professor of Accounting in UCD College of Business, Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School 2023/24 on October 17th, 2023. Read the Top Takeaway Thoughts.
HHIT Series Episode 7: Precision oncology and developing ‘digital twins’ of cancer patients, with Walter Kolch
Prof Walter Kolch, Director of Systems Biology Ireland and the Precision Oncology Ireland Consortium spoke on 19 September 2023. Read the Top Takeaway Thoughts.
HHIT Series Episode 6: How AI is transforming healthcare, with Ronan Glynn
Dr Ronan Glynn is Health Sector Lead for EY Ireland and former Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health. On April 18th, 2023, he spoke to HHIT Series host Prof Patricia Maguire about pandemic preparedness, our ageing population and how AI is transforming healthcare. Read the Top Takeaway Thoughts.
HHIT Series Episode 5: Global Human Computer Interaction and Global Health, with Aaron Quigley
Professor Aaron Quigley, Deputy Director and Director of Science at (opens in a new window)CSIRO Data61, the data and digital specialist arm of Australia’s national science agency on 21 March 2023 in the Moore Auditorium, UCD. Read more.
HHIT Series Episode 4: Biomedicine and digital health, with Paula Petrone
Prof Paula Petrone, Biomedical data scientist and team lead at (opens in a new window)Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal),and organiser of the (opens in a new window)Women in Data Science (WiDS) Barcelona Biomedicine conference spoke on 21 February 2023. Read the Top Takeaway Thoughts.
HHIT Series Episode 3: Precision medicine with Peter Keeling
Peter Keeling is CEO of (opens in a new window)Diaceutics, a Belfast-based med-tech company focused on diagnostics testing. On 7 February 2023, he spoke about precision medicine with host Prof Patricia Maguire. Read the Top Takeaway Thoughts.
HHIT Series Episode 2: Brain-computer interfaces, with Tan Le
Tan Le, Founder and CEO of EMOTIV, a San Francisco-based neuroinformatices company spoke on 31 January 2023 about the astonishing achievements - and potential - of brain-computer interfaces. Read the Top Takeaway Thoughts.
HHIT Series Episode 1: Raimond L. Winslow
On January 17th, 2023, Dr. Rai Winslow, Director of Life Sciences and Medical Research at The Roux Institute at Northeastern University, USA, spoke to host Prof. Patricia Maguire about computational medicine and the extraordinary potential of AI and machine learning in healthcare. Read the Top Takeaway Thoughts.