Personalized Healthcare Technology

Personalized Healthcare Technology integrates interdisciplinary research to tackle problems in unconventional ways, creating a new future in healthcare delivery and individually empowered health.

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Estimated medical costs for cardiovascular disease by 2030

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Colleges at RIT involved in personalized health care technology research

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Combined years of experience in academia among six faculty mentors

Key Faculty

Linwei Wang
Bruce B Bates Professor
Department of Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.

Director, Personalized Health Care Technology

Adam Smith
Associate Professor, Design
School of Design
Christopher Homan
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Andre Hudson
Dean, College of Science
Office of the Provost and Senior VP for Academic Affairs
Cecilia Alm
Professor, Psychology
School of Psychology and Cognitive Science
Dan Phillips
Associate Professor, Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering
Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering
Karin Wuertz-Kozak
Harvey J. Palmer Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering

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