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I lead the laboratory for medical instruction and image-guided surgery. Besides, I am Academic Secretary of the Master on Biomedical Engineering and Coordinator of the Degree on Biomedical Engineering.
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Patricia Sánchez González
I lead the Chair on Processes and Technologies for Health supported by UPM and Hospital Ramón y Cajal, and I also have tutored many Final Thesis in this area. I collaborate with companies such as Tunstall Televida, Iristrace and Baobab.
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Teresa Sánchez Chaparro
I am a professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering and co-director of the Electronic Systems Lab at ETSIT. In addition, I direct the Securitas-Direct Verisure Chair and represent the UPM in the Innovation Platform in Medical and Healthcare Technologies.
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Álvaro Araujo Pinto
I am the main researcher at the Personalized Medicine and ITC Lab, and member of the Scientific Asessment Comitee on the Spanish Health Informatics Society. I also teach in various Degrees, Masters and Ph.D programs on Biomedical Engineering.
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Maria Elena Hernando Pérez
I am a PhD Assistant Professor and member of the CIBER-BBN. I have taught at various ETSIT Degrees and Masters and have collaborated with hospitals and medical centers in the specialties of Ophthalmology and Dermatology.
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Juan José Gómez Valverde
I lead the Product Development Laboratory of the UPM and I research in the application of 3D and 4D printing to implant design. I also teach several Bachelor and Master courses at the UPM, related to the development of medical technologies. In them, I like to adopt a PBL (“Project-Based Learning”) approach focused on the design, manufacture and validation of medical devices.
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Andrés Díaz Lantada
Hi there! I lead the Bioinstrumentation and Nanomedicine Laboratory at CTB, and I am a member of both the Life Support Technologies group (LST) and the Center for Biomedical Research Network for Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine.
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José Javier Serrano Olmedo
I lead the Aging Lab, a joint laboratory with the Foundation for Biomedical Research of the Getafe University Hospital. I am also the local coordinator of the EIT Digital Master on Human Computer Interaction and Design.
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Elena Villalba Mora
I lead both the Department of Photonic Technology and Bioengineering at ETSIT and the Bioengineering and Telemedicine Group at UPM. I am also president of the Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering and I coordinate the University Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering at the UPM.
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Enrique J. Gómez Aguilera
I have participated in the European projects Uni-HEALTH (2019), on urban design in active aging and URB-HealthS (2020), on sustainability, urban planning and health in Alcorcón. In 2021 I have collaborated with the Copenhagen Univ. in UrBHealth, a Mooc course on Urbanization and Health. You can find more information on my blog.
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Ester Higueras García
I am a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, a full professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at ETSIT-UPM and a researcher at the Biomedical Imaging Technologies Group at IPTC-UPM. You can contact me through my LinkedIn profile.
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