New medical innovations to be presented at Royal Society of Medicine summit

Mar 11 2015

A super-slim wearable sensor developed by sixteen-year old school student Kenneth Shinozuka from the US will be one of the highlights at the Spring medical innovations summit at the Royal Society of Medicine on Saturday 18 April. Showcasing his development to a UK audience for the first time, Kenneth will explain how his grandfather, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, was the inspiration behind his wearable sensor which, attached to a foot or in a sock, can alert caregivers via their smart phone if a patient begins to wander.

Last November the ‘Mom’ incubator, developed by 23-year old James Roberts, was awarded the James Dyson Award which celebrates, encourages and inspires the next generation of design engineers. James will tell the summit audience how a BBC Panorama documentary about the plight of refugee babies from the war in Syria moved him to develop this low-cost inflatable incubator for use in countries without access to medical technology.

Also presenting at the Summit from the UK will be Dr Jamie Wilson, founder and CEO of online care marketplace HomeTouch. As an NHS psychiatrist he saw how the difficulties accessing quality carers impacted his patients with disabling conditions such as dementia and so developed HomeTouch to help families find affordable, high quality care in their local area.

Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies has drawn attention to the urgent need for an alternative to antibiotics. Mark Offerhaus and Bjorn Herpers will be travelling to the summit from Holland to speak about their work which has been hailed as a significant advance in the fight against drug-resistant infection.