Why do we need un-obtrusive monitoring?

Speaker:Prof. Sidarto Bambang Oetomo (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Time and Date: 10:00-11:00, Apr. 6, 2016

Place: Room 521, Physics Building, Handan Campus

 

 

Abstract

The last decades medical technology improved and new treatment modalities were introduced. As a result the survival of premature infants has increased substantially. It has been found that surviving premature infants show more developmental disorders and cognitive problems, so that their school performance is less compared to their full term counterparts. Apart from medical factors two other factors are identified that contribute to the developmental impairments: pain and stress that the infants experience during their stay at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and separation from their mother. Our research is aimed towards the development and design of technologies to reduce pain and stress for newborn infants in the NICU and technologies to promote mother child bonding. During the presentation examples of this research will be shown.

 

 

Biography

Prof. dr. Sidarto Bambang Oetomo trained and worked in Pediatrics and Neonatology for more than 20 years at the Beatrix Children’s Hospital at the University of Groningen (presently UMCG), the Netherlands. After finishing his PhD he spend a year as Research Fellow in the Perinatal Research Laboratories in Torrance California (UCLA). In 2003 he accepted the position of neonatologist in the Máxima Medical Center in Veldhoven. In 2007 he was appointed as Professor of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology.