Sanchez Terrones named Keynote Speaker for ICEBI & EIT conference
Sanchez Terrones named Keynote Speaker for ICEBI & EIT conference
Associate Professor Benjamin Sanchez Terrones will be the keynote speaker at the International Conference on Electrical BioImpedance, and Electrical Impedance Tomography 2025 (ICEBI & EIT 2025).
Sanchez Terrones joined UIC’s electrical and computer engineering department on January 1 and is an affiliate faculty member in the Richard and Loan Hill Department of Biomedical Engineering. His research is at the intersection of engineering and patient-oriented research.
He aims to improve health at large using new digital health technologies and wearables to address highly preventable global chronic conditions. These technologies include point-of-care diagnostic devices that can be used at a patient’s bedside, mobile health technologies, including smartphones and other connected medical devices, and wearables like smartwatches and smart rings.
His presentation, Taking the Pressure Off from Hemodynamic Modeling, focuses on his lab’s ongoing work to fight cardiovascular diseases and addresses the unmet clinical challenge of comfortable, cuffless blood pressure monitoring.
He is currently the principal investigator in an NSF award, where he developed a new smartwatch technology that uses electricity to measure blood pressure at the wrist and does not require the use of a blood pressure cuff.
He also studied the interference effects of smartwatches and other wearable devices on implantable heart devices such as pacemakers. The electrical interference they produce can cause interference with natural electrical signals generated by the heart and confuse the pacemaker, which could be life-threating.
The conference will be held June 25 through June 27 in Monterrey, Mexico.