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The book contains the proceedings of CAETS 2015 Convocation on 'Pathways to Sustainability: Energy, Mobility and Healthcare Engineering' that was held on October 13-14, 2015 in New Delhi. This 3 volume proceedings provide an international forum for discussion and communication of engineering and technological issues of common concern. This volume talks about 'Healthcare' and includes 11 chapters on diverse topics like regenerative engineering, big data analytics in healthcare, molecular science, rising expenditure on health issues, adoption of personalized medicine, etc. The contents of this volume will be useful to researchers and healthcare professionals.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Ethics-Based-Engineering: Importance of Academy's Initiative toward Human Security and Well-Being.- Chapter 2. Scalable Medical Devices: Personal and Social.- Chapter 3. Therapeutic Platforms for Ischemic and Traumatic Brain Injuries across National-level Neuroimaging Grids.- Chapter 4. Next Generation Devices and Technologies through Regenerative Engineering.- Chapter 5. Rising Healthcare Spending: Is Technology the Solution?.- Chapter 6. Big Data Analytics and Molecular Medicine.- Chapter 7. Can Life Sciences Progress without Engineering?.- Chapter 8. Evaluation of BMP-2 Mediated Bone Formation using Enzymatically Crosslinkable Injectable Hydrogels: An In vivo Study using Transgenic Fluorescent Reporter Mouse Model.- Chapter 9. Supporting the Diagnosis of Childhood Pneumonia in Low Resource Settings.- Chapter 10. Adoption of Personalized Medicine: Towards Identifying Critical Changes.- Chapter 11.Biophysics-based Markers Surpassing Biochemical Markers in Screening of Ageing-related Neurodegeneration and Cognitive Impairment.
About the author
Dr. Rajeev Shorey is the Principal Scientist at the TCS Innovation Lab, Cincinnati, USA and Bangalore, India. Dr. Shorey received his Ph.D and MS in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India in 1997 and 1991 respectively. He received his B.E degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IISc, Bangalore in 1987 and the B. Sc degree from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University in 1984. Dr. Shorey's career spans several reputed research labs - General Motors (GM) India Science Laboratory (ISL), IBM India Research Laboratory and SASKEN Technologies. He was an adjunct faculty in the Computer Science Dept. at IIT, Delhi from 1998 to 2005. He was a faculty in the Computer Science Dept. at the National University of Singapore from 2003 to 2004, while on leave from IBM Research Labs in New Delhi.
Dr. Shorey's work has resulted in more than 50 publications in international journals and conferences and several US patents, all in the area of wireless, wired networks, including wireless security. He has 12 issued US patents and several pending US patents to his credit. His areas of interest are Wireless Networks, Internet, Telecommunications, Telematics, Data Security and Data Analytics. Dr. Shorey has served on the Editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and is currently serving on the Editorial board of WINET (Wireless Networks Journal of Mobile Communication, Computation and Information) journal. He is the editor of the book titled"Mobile, Wireless and Sensor Networks: Technology, Applications and Future Directions" published by John Wiley, US in March 2006. Dr. Shorey has given numerous talks, tutorials and seminars in industry and academia all over the world. He is the founding member of the Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS) conference in India.
For his contributions in the area of Communication Networks, Dr. Shorey was elected a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2007. Dr. Shorey was recognized by ACM as a Distinguished Scientist in December 2014. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India.
Purnendu Ghosh is the Executive Director, Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur. Prior to this he was Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland; University of Melbourne, Australia; National Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF), Braunschweig, Germany. He has taken a lead role in augmenting bioprocess engineering and biotechnology activities in the country as a member of several Task Forces of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. He is currently the Chief Editor of Publications of Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is a columnist of a leading newspaper group. Besides technical publications, he has written books of different genre.
Summary
The book contains the proceedings of CAETS 2015 Convocation on ‘Pathways to Sustainability: Energy, Mobility and Healthcare Engineering’ that was held on October 13-14, 2015 in New Delhi. This 3 volume proceedings provide an international forum for discussion and communication of engineering and technological issues of common concern. This volume talks about ‘Healthcare’ and includes 11 chapters on diverse topics like regenerative engineering, big data analytics in healthcare, molecular science, rising expenditure on health issues, adoption of personalized medicine, etc. The contents of this volume will be useful to researchers and healthcare professionals.
