Join Professor William Gage, Associate Dean of Research & Innovation in the Faculty of Health (FoH) at York, and Professor Andrew Eckford of York’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering in the Faculty of Science & Engineering (FSE), for the launch of the eHealth Alliance brown bag lecture series. They will discuss the importance of accelerometers in studying the walking behaviour and interactions of participants in their natural environment (for more information please see the poster attached). 

Gage holds scientific appointments as an associate scientist in the Centre for Stroke Recovery at Sunnybrook Health Science Centre and as a scientist at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. He is particularly interested in how balance and walking are affected by age, by joint disease, such as arthritis, and by stroke.

A graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada and the University of Toronto, Eckford has written many papers on wireless networking and has research interests in wearable wireless networks, as well as signal processing for biomechanics. He also holds an adjunct professorship at the University of Toronto.

Upcoming eHealth Alliance lecture presenters:
Nov. 17 – Serban Dinca, Undergraduate Program Director and Coordinator of the Health Informatics Certificate in the School of Health Polity & Management, from 3 to 4pm at 402 HNES Building
Dec. 15 – Amir Asif, Chair of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, from 3 to 4pm at 3033 Computer Science & Engineering Building
Jan. 19 – Harvey Skinner, Dean of the Faculty of Health, from 3 to 4pm at 402 HNES Building
Feb. 16 – Farah Ahmad, Assistant Professor in the School of Health Policy & Management, from 3 to 4pm at 402 HNES Building