Digital Health

Digital Health Health technologies including bio-informatics, healthcare robotics and big data in medicine present opportunities to advance our understanding of the human body and the management of our health. With ubiquitous and sophisticated sensors, we exponentially grow our data wealth. The University of Auckland’s Digital Health Platform provides scientifically proven solutions to utilise and commercialise this data, comprising three world leading teams covering the following areas: Healthcare assistive technologies at the Centre for Automation and Robotic Engineering Science

Computational models of human physiology at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute

• Human Robot Interaction (HRI), software development, assistive technology

• The Physiome Project is a world leading initiative in biophysical modelling by the ABI which covers all 12 physiological organ systems

• Technology assessment in real scenarios, clinical trials, telehealth • Healthbot™: Medication and therapy management, social robotics Find out more at robotics.auckland.ac.nz

• Virtual clinical trials, personalised medicine, electronic health records (openEHR) • MedTech CoRE, hosted by the ABI: diagnostics & therapeutics, interventional technologies, assistive technologies, telehealth & health informatics, and tissue engineering for regenerative medicine Find out more at abi.auckland.ac.nz

Innovative solutions to the world’s leading health problems at the National Institute for Health Innovation • Clinical trials of mobile health solutions for preventing and managing serious diseases such as diabetes and heart disease • Developing apps, games and messaging interventions to support people with mental health conditions, addictions, poor nutrition and low physical activity • Disease registries and data linkage for healthcare quality improvement Find out more at nihi.auckland.ac.nz

Our people Professor Peter Hunter completed his Masters of Engineering degree at the University of Auckland before undertaking his DPhil (PhD) in Physiology at the University of Oxford where he researched finite element modeling of ventricular mechanics. Since then his research focus has been on multi-scale physiological modeling.

In 2009, he was awarded the Rutherford Medal, New Zealand’s top science award. Peter was appointed to the NZ Order of Merit in 2010.

As recent Co-Chair of the Physiome Committee of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, Peter is helping to lead the world in the use of computational methods for understanding the integrated physiological function of the body in terms of the structure and function of tissues, cells and proteins.

Alongside his role as Director of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Peter is also Director of the Medical Technologies Centre of Research Excellence (MedTech CoRE) hosted by the University of Auckland. An elected Fellow of the Royal Society, he also holds honorary Professorships at a number of universities around the world.

Peter is also on the scientific advisory boards of a number of research institutes in Europe, the US and the Asia-Pacific region.

Professor Bruce MacDonald completed a PhD in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Canterbury. After working in the New Zealand electricity industry for 4 years, he moved to Canada and spent ten years in the Computer Science Department of the University of Calgary.

Returning to NZ in 1995, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Auckland. Bruce helped develop a computer systems engineering programme, and started the Robotics Laboratory.

His long term goal is to design intelligent robotic assistants that improve the quality of people’s lives, with primary research interests in human robot interaction and robot programming systems, and applications in areas such as healthcare and agriculture. He is the Director of the multidisciplinary CARES robotics team at the University of Auckland. He is the chairman for NZ’s robotics, automation and sensing association. For NZ’s national science challenge Science for Technological Innovation, he is the deputy director, theme leader for Sensors, Robotics and Automation and responsible for capacity development activities. He is co-chair for the IEEE technical committee on software engineering for robotics.

Professor Chris Bullen is a graduate of the University of Auckland with qualifications in obstetrics, child health and public health, and a PhD in Community Medicine. His research interests focus on tobacco control and innovative smoking cessation interventions research, an area in which he has published extensively, but he also has wider interests in research on mHealth, global health, and heart disease prevention and treatment. He co-directs the Tobacco Control Research Turanga, a $5m programme of strategic innovative tobacco research and is an active member of the Centre for Addiction Research. Chris heads a team of researchers and developers interested in developing and testing novel yet pragmatic digital solutions for leading health problems. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), a Fellow of the New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine, a Member of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and of the Centre for Addiction Research.

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