"The Digital Physiome: Wearables for Disease Detection and Monitoring"

The Center for Computational and Digital Health invites you to join our virtual seminar featuring Jessilyn Dunn, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering.

Speaker Bio:
Dr. Jessilyn Dunn is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University, and Director of the BIG IDEAs Laboratory whose goal is to detect, treat, and prevent chronic and acute diseases through digital health innovation. She is currently PI of the BARDA-funded CovIdentify study to detect and monitor respiratory infections like COVID-19 using mobile health technologies, and an NIH-funded study to develop digital biomarkers of pre- and type 2 diabetes. She also leads the DBDP, an open-source software platform for digital biomarker development. Dr. Dunn was an NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Georgia Tech and Emory, as well as a visiting scholar at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cardiovascular Research Institute in Madrid, Spain. Her work has been internationally recognized with media coverage from the NIH Director's Blog to Wired, Time, and US News and World Report.