Med Graph Inc. President, Edward Schlueter, Jr., has joined the Center for Future Health as Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Ed Schlueter joined the University of Rochester's Center for Future Health as Entrepreneur-in-Residence.
(PRWEB) January 3, 2005 -- The University of Rochester’s Center for Future
Health today announced that Ed Schlueter has joined its team as
Entrepreneur-in-Residence. “We invite Ed to help us enhance our program to
engage the community's vast technical resources in targeted projects,” said
Cecelia Horwitz, associate director of the Center for Future Health. “Ed brings
key skills in the areas of project management, medical informatics, and
connectivity to the local community to the Center. His market knowledge and
skills in the management of medical diagnostic information will complement the
existing technology research and deployment activities at the Center.”
Ed
spends four hours a week at the Center to:
- Help identify new initiatives
bringing together technical people in the community with the Center for Future
Health's proactive health research projects.
- Collaborating on new program
initiatives, such as research into understanding changes in motion as an
indicator of health
About the Center for Future Health
The Center for
Future Health (www.futurehealth.rochester.edu/) is a focused research program
that develops the needed technologies for self care, mobile care, and home care.
This is an inter-disciplinary team of physicians, health practitioners,
bio-organic chemists, computer scientists, informaticists, engineers, and
behavioral scientists. The team is working towards inventing smart technology
and wireless systems that allow consumers to maintain health, detect the onset
of health problems and manage disease. The vision is for the data that is
collected to reside in the home and be interpreted by the software into health
intelligence. This personal record will be in a form that is usable by
consumers. Consumers can share the information with their medical providers, if
they choose.
About Med Graph and Ed Schlueter
Med Graph, Inc. is a
medical device and informatics company that provides technology and
infrastructure to manufacturers of home healthcare monitoring devices. The
company's patented method and system technology enables their products to
passively collect critical diagnostic data and transparently deliver that data
in graphical summary form to medical professionals. Ed holds a Master of Science
degree from the University of Rochester. He has been recognized with the Xerox
President's award, and the patent hall of fame award. Ed holds over 80 US
patents in the areas of materials, devices, and medical informatics. For more
information about Ed Schlueter, Jr. and Med Graph, visit www.med-graph.com.
About the Office of Technology
Transfer
The University of Rochester’s Office of Technology Transfer has
Entrepreneurs-in-Residence who coordinate and work with the Center for Future
Health and its Entrepreneur-in-Residence. The University of Rochester’s Office
of Technology Transfer is responsible for the management of the intellectual
property resources of the University of Rochester. Its goal is to pursue
innovative strategies to help translate scientific progress into tangible
products, while returning income to the inventor and the University to support
further research and education. OTT facilitates the licensing of technology to
companies, encourages new faculty startup ventures, works with publishers and
distributors of software, and supports the transfer of research materials to
other universities, research agencies and companies. For more information about
the Office of Technology Transfer, visit www.rochester.edu/ott.
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