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Dr Pecchia invited talk titled "Adverse events: the importance of medical devices and medical location design and assessment in real contexts", ICEHTM, Brazil 22 September 2017, International Clinical Engineering and Helath Technology Management Conference (ICEHTMC2017), Sao Paulo, Brazil.

ICEHTM2017, was organised by WHO PAHO and the Brazilian society of clinical enginering.

Here the video of Dr Pecchia talk:

Recent research results from our lab were showcased in the European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference 2017 (EMBEC’17), which took place from 11^th to 15^th June in Tampere, Finland.

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Rossana Castaldo, current member of the Applied Biomedical Signal Processing and Intelligent eHealth Lab at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, was awarded a merit award for being selected among the best 10 papers presented at the Young Investigator Competition at the EMBEC’17 & NBC’17 conference held in Tampere, Finland this June. Rossana was shortlisted among 700 papers submitted, for her manuscript titled “To What Extent Can We Shorten HRV Analysis in Wearable Sensing? A Case Study on Mental Stress Detection”.

Miss Rossana Castaldo, currently doing her PhD in biomedical signal processing and machine learning, has been awarded for her work on mental stress detection using ultra-short HRV analysis. She presented a poster on how mental stress can be detected in healthy subjects using only 1 min HRV features.

She was awarded by the ABTA Doctoral Researcher Awards the 20^th May at the University College London.

Dr Pecchia represented the IFMBE HTAD in Geneve. IFMBE is an ONG in official relations with WHO and is entitled to present motions to the WHO General Assembly. Dr Pecchia is the focal point for WHO-IFMBE relations regarding HTA of Medical Devices

Dr Pecchia was responsible for selecting the papers submitted and organized the program of the HTA track. Moreover, he gave a presentation regarding his recent field analysis in Benin and was invited to present IFMBE HTA Division activities in plenary session.

HTA of Medical Devices in LMICs

BME contribution to HTA

WHO III Global forum of Medical Devices - proceedings and presentations