This week, we have a presentation by Professor Thenkurussi “Kesh” Kesavadas – Director of the Health Care Engineering Systems Center at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Title:
Health Care Engineering Systems Center (HCESC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract:
The Health Care Engineering Systems Center (HCESC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides clinical immersion and fosters collaboration between engineers and physicians. Research areas include simulation technologies, smart health systems, data analytics, human factors, and medical robotics. One of the most important activities of HCESC is managing the Jump Applied Research in Community Health through Engineering and Simulation (ARCHES) endowment, which was established in 2014 by a $62.5 million gift. Since its inception, Jump ARCHES has provided over $ 5 million through an internal grant mechanism to fund over 93 proposals. In this presentation we will discuss center’s research and educational mission and provide information about how CSL faculty and students can participate in the center activities.
Bio:
Thenkurussi “Kesh” Kesavadas is the founder Director of the Health Care Engineering Systems Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a professor of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, and holds faculty appointments in the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and with the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine at the university. His current research focuses on medical robotics and virtual reality for medicine. Kesavadas has widely published in the areas of medical robotics, VR, medical simulation and manufacturing. He is also an inventor of products that were successfully commercialized. In 2008, Kesavadas developed the world’s first stand-alone virtual reality Robotic Surgical Simulator called RoSSTM that is used around the world to train residents and medical students. This invention led to forming Simulated Surgical Systems to commercialize RoSSTM. Before joining Illinois, Kesavadas was a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo (NY) where, in 1996, he founded one of the first Virtual Reality labs in the US. Kesavadas received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University, an M.S. from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Calicut. stitute of Technology, Madras, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Calicut.