MEDICAL AUTOMATION EXPERTS
Terry Sharrer's bio:
 | Dr. Sharrer began as Executive Director, Medical Innovation and Transformation Institute, with the Inova Health System (Fairfax, VA) in July 2007. Formerly, he was the Curator of Health Sciences at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, where he had worked for thirty-six years. Terry Sharrer speaks and writes about a range of life science subjects. In 1987, he co-organized an exhibition titled "The Search for Life: Genetic Technology in the 20th Century." This show also was the inaugural exhibition for the DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. He has done video documentaries on the Human Genome Project, the beginning of gene therapy, and the molecular biology of cancer. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Maryland, has authored some three dozen publications-including A Kind of Fate, Agricultural Change in Virginia, 1861-1920 (about the biological consequences of the Civil War and the beginning of germ theory practices, Iowa State University Press, 2000)-and currently is writing a history of molecular medicine. For outreach work, has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Foundation for Cancer Research (Bethesda, MD), board member of the Carilion Biomedical Institute (Roanoke, VA), board member, Immune Deficiency Foundation (Towson, MD), and board member, Inova Fairfax Hospital Cancer Advisory Committee (Fairfax, VA). Currently, his public service includes: board member of the Fund for Inherited Disease Research (Bryn Mawr, PA); and Science Advisor, for the Loudoun County, VA Department of Economic Development, the Clarke County VA Education Foundation, and the Arizona Science Alliance. With his wife Patty, and sons Alex, age 13, and Nicholas, age 17, he lives in Hamilton, Loudoun County, VA. Disclosure: G. Terry Sharrer, PhD has stock dividends in Merck and Pfizer. |
Terry Sharrer's posts:
“Repairing” RNA
In the most severe forms of Huntington’s disease, a glutamine-coding DNA sequence on chromosome 7, CAG, can be repeated [MORE]
IBM’s Watson Healthcare Advisory Board
Most of us will remember IBM’s supercomputer “Watson” beating the pants off human competitors on the quiz show “Jeopardy.” But [MORE]
Low Cost Wearable Vital Signs Monitor
Calling their device a “life and activity monitor,” researchers at Oregon State University and the University of California-San Diego [MORE]
Sony, Panasonic, Olympus—Healthcare?
It’s curious that three of the biggest names in consumer products—Sony, Panasonic, and Olympus—are considering medical imaging as their [MORE]
Mayo Begins Large Scale Sequencing
DNA sequencing is a necessary, but not entirely sufficient step, toward personalized medicine. Providers have to figure out how to [MORE]
Telemonitoring Heart Failure Patients
In a sense, this piece reinforces what is already known—that the success of telemonitoring patients for heart failure depends [MORE]
3-D Printing for Muscle Tissue
A San Diego company, Organovo, is using a modified form of 3-D printing to create human tissues—so far, heart [MORE]
Novel Technique for Distinguishing Normal and Diseased Tissue
Using a resonance tunnel diode, MEMS engineers at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany have created a micro-transmitter, [MORE]
New Blood Types
How many blood types exist? There’s the ABO group, and Rhesus +/-; then, Duffy, Kidd, Diego and Lutheran, and [MORE]
Musing – Automated Billing Analysis
Everyone knows that someone pays for healthcare, whether it’s the government, an insurer, an individual, or the provider. But it [MORE]
AT&T Development Center for Healthcare
For those who missed Robert Miller’s talk about AT&T’s healthcare innovations at last December’s Medical Automation conference, this piece [MORE]
Music Powered Implantable Medical Sensor
Who knew that, someday, rap music might power implantable medical sensors? Researchers at Purdue apparently thought so and have [MORE]
Making Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering
Biochemical engineers at Northwestern University have developed a new method for fabricating scaffolds on which they can grow new [MORE]
Listening to Pathogens
Bacteria and viruses make faint sounds when they move—hard as that is to imagine. To detect these acoustic vibrations, [MORE]
Genomics-Based Rx
With lower costs for DNA sequencing, greater understanding of cancer genetics, and drugs that are known to target specific genes, [MORE]
UV-Emitting LED’s
Relying on the electrochemical properties of tin oxides, engineers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of [MORE]
Scalable Automation for Small Labs
This piece, from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, is not a “how-to” guide for small labs, but rather [MORE]
Medical Breakthroughs on the Horizon
From a survey of experts, the Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry newsletter identified several coming breakthrough technologies in health [MORE]
Sprint Enters Mobile Health
Like Verizon and AT&T, Sprint is moving into the healthcare space with its partner, Toronto-based Ideal Life, a maker [MORE]
Robotic -180 degrees C “Smart Freezer”
With biorepository freezers, costs go up as temperatures go down. And, until recently it has been close to impossible [MORE]