{"318941":{"#nid":"318941","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor May Wang Elected to Elite National Committee","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA faculty member with the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME)\u0026nbsp;is joining one of the world\u2019s most elite societies for biomedical engineers. Associate\u0026nbsp;Professor May Dongmei Wang, Ph.D., was recently elected as an Administrative Committee Officer (AdCom) representing North America in the international IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m honored and humbled to receive a committee position within this globally-recognized organization,\u201d Wang said. \u0026nbsp;\u201cHealth Informatics is identified as one of the 14 Grand Challenges in the 21st Century by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.engineeringchallenges.org\/\u0022\u003ENational Academy of Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. I have been devoted to biomedical and health informatics (BHI) research for personalized and predictive medicine since I joined Georgia Tech-Emory BME as a faculty member. This new recognition will allow me to help grow BHI within the IEEE and BME communities to tackle this Grand Challenge.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to her new\u0026nbsp;position, Wang has been serving as the Biomedical and Health Informatics Technical Committee Chair and will present at the EMBC 2014 Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering Symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang\u2019s research centers around\u0026nbsp;translating huge amounts of\u0026nbsp;multi-modality and multi-scale biomedical data acquired by \u2013omic\u0026nbsp;technologies, tissue and histopathological imaging, bedside monitors, and wearable sensors into knowledge that helps\u0026nbsp;physicians make\u0026nbsp;health decisions\u0026nbsp;for each individual, including:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIdentifying biomarkers from tera-bytes (TBs) of next generation sequencing data for\u0026nbsp;personalized\u0026nbsp;diagnosis and treatment of cancer and cardiac patients.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIdentifying cellular and tissue imaging markers from TBs of pathological H\u0026amp;E, multiplex Quantum-Dots\u0026nbsp;IHC imaging, or imaging mass spectrometry\u0026nbsp;data\u0026nbsp;for clinical decision support.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAnalyzing bedside continuous monitoring data and point-of-care data for real-time critical care in ERs and ICUs\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDeveloping mobile health and\u0026nbsp;educational intervention solutions\u0026nbsp;for Sickle Cell Disease\u0026nbsp;(SCD)\u0026nbsp;kids to report pain and medication adherence. A small clinical trial for SCD kids has been finished in Children\u2019s Health of Atlanta, and the\u0026nbsp;approach\u0026nbsp;will be extended to other chronic conditions, such as asthma, diabetes, and pain management.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThrough my new position with EMBS, I will have the opportunity to work with biomedical engineers around the world to continually innovate in the field of BHI research for discovery, development, and delivery. The ultimate goal is to use novel technologies to improve human health outcomes and reduce costs at every level.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society is the world\u0027s largest international society of biomedical engineers. The organization is made up of 9,100 members in some 97 countries. EMBS provides its members with access to the people, practices, information, ideas and opinions that are shaping one of the fastest growing fields in science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERelated Links:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/facultystaff\/faculty_record.php?id=41\u0022\u003EWang\u2019s Profile\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bio-miblab.org\/\u0022\u003EWang\u0027s Lab\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWritten by Chris Calleri\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"May Dongmei Wang, Ph.D. Representing North America in The International IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)."}],"uid":"27960","created_gmt":"2014-08-25 13:33:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:59","author":"Chris Calleri","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-08-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-08-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"318931":{"id":"318931","type":"image","title":"Image of May Wang","body":null,"created":"1449244997","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:03:17","changed":"1475895029","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:29","alt":"Image of May Wang","file":{"fid":"200048","name":"maywang1_hires.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/maywang1_hires_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/maywang1_hires_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1408641,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/maywang1_hires_1.jpg?itok=cCgYRhub"}}},"media_ids":["318931"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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