BME 2014 Biomedical Engineering International Conference, Hong Kong

Professor Patricia Connolly has worked across Europe in the medical industry and academia, researching and developing medical devices. Her work took her to Italy and Switzerland before she resettled in her native Glasgow on her appointment as Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Strathclyde. She is currently Director of Strathclyde Institute of Medical Devices (SIMD) and the Director of the  EPSRC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Medical Devices and Health Technologies at the University.

 

In 2009 she also became CEO of Ohmedics, a spin out of the University of Strathclyde, to commercialise her work on sensors for wound care and diagnostics to make better wound management tools available to patients and clinicians. Her extensive experience in Biomedical Engineering, both at industrial and academic level, gives her to be able to direct projects through from research and development to full commercialisation. Her focus has mainly been on medical diagnostics, and in recent years her research has focused on point of care instrumentation and tests including minimally invasive monitoring systems that can be combined with telehealth approaches for home monitoring of patients.