2008 USC Body Computing Slam: Presentation 3
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Channel: USC · 2009 · Education
Visit USC on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/USC/ Learn more about the University of Southern California: https://www.usc.edu The 2008 University of Southern California Body Computing Conference was held at USC on October 24, 2008, hosted by Leslie Saxon, chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Making the third presentation, A Mobile Videosharing Network for Young Adult Cancer Survivors, were Matthew Weber and Jessica Gould, both PhD candidates at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Mr. Weber and Ms. Gould presented work they are conducting with Margaret McLaughlin to create a cell phone-based social network for cancer patients transitioning from childhood to adulthood and leaving their care environment. The social network project aims to foster a robust, caring community for young adult cancer survivors to enter using relatively cheap, simple-to-use cell phones as the medium for communication. Eventually, other patient populations could also be linked this way. The presenters were named as the Honorable Mention Most Outstanding Body Computing Slam Presenting Group. Dr. Saxon emceed the session. Judges were Francis Pereira, director of industry research at the USC Institute for Communications Technology and Management; John Lalonde, vice president of Latitude Research & Development at Boston Scientific CRM; Donald Jones, vice president for business development at Qualcomm, Inc.; Jonathan Lash, director of the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at USC; and Neil Eigler, senior vice president of CRMD Technology Incubation at St. Jude Medical.
