BIH Lecture | Christian Meisel: "Sensors, Wearables, Data Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Era of Neurology"

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BIH Lecture

"Sensors, Wearables, Data Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Era of Neurology"

Neurology builds on clinical assessment and diagnostic tests which, traditionally, have been limited to clinical visits and short observation windows. The advent of new sensor and wearable technologies along with digital monitoring and advanced data analytics have the potential to transform neurology. They may offer a more comprehensive mapping and deeper understanding of disease and its trajectories, improved diagnostics and refined treatments. For inpatient monitoring in intensive care and stroke medicine, this provides opportunities for predictive diagnostic methods for specific and time-critical therapies. In the outpatient setting, intelligent algorithms applied to patient-generated health data may afford more objective, continuous monitoring and intervention for faster and improved care. In this talk we will discuss specific examples from epilepsy, intensive care and stroke medicine to illustrate a translational path for computational neurology: from basic methodological science to testing and transfer to the patient bedside, to networking with industry partners with the goal of broad application in everyday clinical practice. 

About the Speaker

Christian Meisel studied physics and medicine in Freiburg and Stanford. After residency in neurology at the University Hospital Dresden, fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and at the National Institutes of Health, Meisel worked at Harvard Medical School before moving to Berlin in 2020, where he is a senior attending physician and research group leader at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) and the Charité Department of Neurology.  In early 2024, he has been awarded funding approval for the Chaired Schilling Foundation-Professorship "Computational Neurology”.

The Hermann and Lilly Schilling Foundation for Medical Research has been funding outstanding clinically oriented basic research in neurology for 50 years. To mark this anniversary, it invited applications for a chair in computational neurology. Meisel and his team conduct AI-supported research that develops, among other things, new approaches to treating people with epilepsy and patients in intensive care: They are working on real-time-capable monitoring systems that can enable continuous risk assessment and, if necessary, facilitate early therapeutic intervention.

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Hermann and Lilly Schilling Foundation for Medical Research