Synopsis:

This Grand Round will describe frontline technology innovation in health care, and will explore its value, key components and challenges, specific examples and how individuals can participate.

Speaker:

Dr Aenor J Sawyer is the Chief Health Innovation Officer for the Translational Research Institute for Space Health, a program funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).  She is an orthopaedic surgeon and Director of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Skeletal Health Service. In this role she also utilizes her background as a physical therapist and exercise physiologist.

Dr. Sawyer has over two decades experience in health technology innovation including devices, digital health, telehealth, and electronic medical record systems. She currently guides development and translation of novel frontline technologies at UCSF. She is a co-founder of the UCSF Center for Digital Health Innovation, serves on the UCSF Information Technology Governance Committee, and leads the UCSF Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery’s Technology Committee. She is co-founder of UCSF’s EDGE Labs 3DPrinting and Co-Director of the Center for Advanced 3D+ Technologies (CA3D+). Broader strategic roles include External Advisory Board member of the Scripps Translational Sciences Institute Digital Medicine Center, Chair of International Health Technology Advisory Board for Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, and Associate Editor of Nature’s Digital Medicine Journal. Dr. Sawyer has served as an expedition medic for over 10 years to solo ocean rowers and is Medical Director for the Great Pacific Race.