This presentation was delivered as part of the Australian Biomedical Engineering Conference (ABEC) 2021, webinar series delivered Thursday 21 October 2021.

ABEC Session 3

Biomedical Engineering, Biosensors and Wearables

Karen Reynolds - Establishing a PPE test facility in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Meseret Teferra - Comparison between a textile-based electrocardiogram monitor and a commercial Holter monitor based on short term heart rate variability analysis

Manish Sreenivasa - Considerations in real-world translation of human-device pressure measurement in exoskeleton applications

Catherine Galvin - Are Knee Contact Forces Reduced by Unloader Knee Braces? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Meseret Teferra - Effect of textile electrode attachment on electrocardiogram quality

Establishing a PPE test facility in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Karen Reynolds

Deputy Dean of Computer Science, Flinders University

Professor Karen Reynolds is Director of the Medical Device Research Institute (MDRI) at Flinders University.  As one of Australia’s leading researchers in biomedical engineering, Karen is passionate about bridging the divide between research and industry.  In 2008, she founded the Medical Device Partnering Program (MDPP), a program designed to facilitate early-stage innovation and collaborations.  In 2020, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, she established a Personal Protective Equipment test facility to support sovereign manufacture.

Comparison between a textile-based electrocardiogram monitor and a commercial Holter monitor based on short term heart rate variability analysis &

Effect of textile electrode attachment on electrocardiogram quality

Meseret Teferra 

Research, Flinders University 

Meseret N. Teferra received a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. His research interest includes medical electronics, embedded programming, and wearable and smart sensing

Considerations in real-world translation of human-device pressure measurement in exoskeleton applications

Manish Sreenivasa 

Lecturer in Biomechatronics, School of MMMB, University of Wollongong

Manish Sreenivasa is a lecturer in biomechatronics at the school of MMMB, University of Wollongong since June 2018. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the research group of Optimization in Robotics and Biomechanics, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, University of Heidelberg, Germany. He conducted his doctoral thesis at LAAS-CNRS, France on the development of human movement models to improve humanoid robot motion. He then spent several years at the group of Yoshihiko Nakamura at the University of Tokyo, Japan, where we worked on highly detailed models of the human neuromuscular system and their application on a supercomputing platform. His work focuses on the combination of the human body with machines (such as exoskeletons, prosthetics) that can help restore/rehabilitate function, replace limbs, and augment movements.

Are Knee Contact Forces Reduced by Unloader Knee Braces? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Catherine Galvin 

Lecturer of Engineering, Australian National University

After working as an Electrical Engineer in the telecommunications industry, I used my analytical skills in the field of clinical biomechanics, studying knee kinematics using medical imaging. I am now working as a Lecturer of Engineering, teaching electronics and systems engineering at the Australian National University.   My research interests include testing the claims made by knee brace manufacturers.