In July, center faculty Courtney Queen, Luca Pollonini, and Clifford Dacso received an NIH grant, "Development of New Imaging Tools for the Early Detection of Buruli Ulcer Disease." Buruli ulcer is a devastating flesh-eating bacterial infection that, each year, affects thousands of people in developing countries, mostly children under the age of 15. If it is detected early, it can be easily treated and cured. This grant supports the creation of software tools and cell phone cameras to detect the disease early so it can be cured. George Zouridakis, PhD, of University of Houston is PI.
Center Research Accepted For Presentation at 2010 APHA Meeting
Two papers by Center Researchers have been accepted for oral presentation at the American Public Health Association's 2010 annual meeting in Denver in October. Pierre Elias, a Finger Fellow, will present InSpire, a game to motivate children to monitor and manage their asthma, and Kara McArthur will present on the Center's Blue Box system for in-home monitoring of heart failure.
New Papers Published
Two new peer-reviewed papers were recently published by Center faculty. Drs. Pollonini and Dacso, Finger Fellow Steve Xu, and Nithin Rajan published "A Novel Handheld Device for Use in Remote Patient Monitoring of Heart Failure Patients--Design and Preliminary Validation on Healthy Subjects" in this month's issue of the Journal of Medical Systems. Amy Harris, Lindsey Reichlin, and Kara McArthur published "Parent Teacher Organizations as Partners to Reduce Obesity and Prevent Diabetes in an Hispanic Community" in the Texas Journal of Public Health.
