Connected Mobile Health Diagnostics with Applica-tions in Infertility Management

The advances in micro- and nano-technologies and the surge in consumer electronics have paved a solid foundation for devel-oping mobile health (mhealth) technologies with the potential to transform the current paradigm in global health. Dr. Shafiee’s laboratory strives to develop mhealth diagnostics and solve unmet medical problems through bioengineering approaches and utilizing the advances in consumer electronics such as cellphones, nanoscale/microscale materials, and computer pro-graming particularly artificial intelligence (AI). mhealth tech-nologies offer novel approaches to diagnose, track, and control diseases including infectious diseases, cancer, and infertility in both resource-rich and resource-poor settings. In this talk, Dr. Shafiee will present examples of how smartphones can be seamlessly integrated with hardware, software, microfluidics, and nanotechnology to develop point-of-care diagnostic devic-es to address clinical gaps in the management of infertility and infectious diseases.