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, Art - Design and Applied Arts
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
Department of Psychology
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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  • February 14, 2020

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    Helping heart surgeons see more clearly

    Associate professor Linwei Wang is leading an international group of researchers and clinicians developing computational systems for creating individualized 3D imaging of a patient’s heart. With these 3D heart models, clinicians now have a noninvasive way to study their patients.

  • February 6, 2020

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    Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 31: A multidisciplinary contingent from RIT is creating design solutions to improve the quality of medical care and education in Central America. Mary Golden, interior design program chair and director of RIT Hope for Honduras, speaks with Christian Perry, a healthcare designer and co-founder of Little Angels of Honduras, about important initiatives to help reduce infant mortality in that region.

  • December 20, 2019

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    Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 29: Caroline Easton, professor in RIT’s School of Behavioral Health, talks with Jacob Wadsworth, a doctoral intern in the university’s priority psychology internship program, about a project that uses telemedicine, the process of using telecommunications to evaluate, diagnosis and treat patients, to help homeless people access mental health and drug addiction counseling.

  • November 8, 2019

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    RIT conducts clinical trial on metabolic syndrome

    RIT is seeking individuals diagnosed with metabolic syndrome to participate in a national clinical trial. The study will evaluate a wellness program designed to reverse conditions leading to heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and stroke.