Reimagining healthcare with human digital twins
What if doctors could predict how your body would respond to surgery without ever touching you? What if they could see exactly how you would react to new medication before you take it? Enter the human digital twin: a high-tech, digital model of you, built using your specific medical, genetic and demographic information. In this talk, Professor Merryn Tawhai will describe how this innovative technology could not only pave the way for safer, more personalised healthcare, but also ease the burden on our overstretched health system and help address inequalities in healthcare delivery.
Join Merryn to hear how human digital twins could be used to get quicker and more precise diagnoses, improve treatment planning and health literacy and help support patients to be safely managed in their own homes. She will also talk about New Zealand’s role in developing this cutting-edge technology, address the importance of using both patient data and patient digital twins ethically and outline her ambitious vision for using human digital twins as the ultimate health-enabling tool.
Bio
Professor Merryn Tawhai is director of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute and leads a research programme in applied computational physiology of the respiratory system. She sits on the board of directors for Cure Kids Ventures and the Virtual Physiological Human Institute and was recently appointed to the Prime Minister’s Science, Innovation and Technology Advisory Council. She is a recipient of the RSNZ Te Apārangi MacDiarmid Medal, a Fellow of the RSNZ, a Fellow of IAMBE and AIMBE and is an elected member of the Fleischner Society.
Event
6:00pm @Good George, 1 Jellicoe Street, North Wharf, Auckland 1010
Also speaking at this location at 8:00pm is Rhys Ponton
