Public Lecture: "A Few Bloody Examples of the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Vascular Surgery" by Oliver Alaami and Torbjörn Lundh

Join us for the public lecture by Torbjörn Lundh and Oliver Alaami at OIST!
OISTにて開催される Torbjörn Lundh 氏および Oliver Alaami 氏による公開講演に、ぜひご参加ください。
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Title: A Few Bloody Examples of the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Vascular Surgery

Speakers:
Oliver Alaami, Director of Digital Health at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign
Torbjörn Lundh, Professor in Biomathematics at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg

Abstract:
We will give some examples of needs identified by vascular surgeons that we have found solutions to using mathematics of various forms: by-pass occlusions, guide wire movement, abdominal aorta aneurysm prediction, stent removal, and controlled compression. These examples follow the Biodesign philosophy cultivated at Stanford, where a lot of effort is put into finding the right challenge before trying to solve it. 

Haiku:
To use what I learn
by asking the right question
to heal my mother

Profiles:
Dr. Oliver Aalami is a vascular surgeon and the Director of Digital Health at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. His primary mission is to advance healthcare access through digital health education, research, and translation. At Stanford, he serves as the course director for Biodesign for Digital Health and Building for Digital Health and is a co-founder of Spezi (formerly CardinalKit), an open-source framework developed to support sensor-based mobile research. His recent work focuses on the intersection of AI and patient care, including the development of an FDA-cleared open-source computer vision model for opportunistic abdominal aortic diameter quantification on routine CT scans. Additionally, he is developing LLMonFHIR, a system that allows consumers to "chat" with their medical records (FHIR resources) on mobile devices, as well as AI-assisted coaching tools to guide patients through therapy.

Torbjörn “Toby" Lundh is currently a TVSP-fellow at OIST and professor in biomathematics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.  In his early career, he got an MSc in Engineering Physics, and then a PhD in Mathematics in potential theory at Uppsala University. After that, he did three postdocs: Cambridge; Stony Brook; and at the Institute Mittag-Leffler. He worked in that area until 2010, when he made a switch to mathematical biology: morphology, evolution, artificial life, speciation, game theory, population dynamics, cancer treatment, and pandemics. Furthermore, he has also been engaged in problems from surgery, and in particular, vascular surgery.  That interest brought him to Stanford; first to vascularsurgery 2015-2016, and two years ago, to Biodesign there.

Language: English

Target audience: All interested in the topic
Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration.

This talk will also be broadcast online via Zoom:
Meeting ID: 967 0753 9187
Passcode: 672857

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