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SUMMARY:ICFO | CLARE ELWELL
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DESCRIPTION:BIO:&nbsp\;\nClare Elwell is a Professor of Medical Physics at 
 University College London (UCL) and Vice Dean for Impact for UCL Engineeri
 ng. She develops functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) technologie
 s to image the human brain and her research projects include studies of ac
 ute brain injury\, infant brain development\, autism\, migraine and malari
 a. She currently leads the Brain Imaging for Global Health (BRIGHT) projec
 t which delivered the first brain images of infants in Africa. In 2023 she
  was awarded a Brocher Foundation Fellowship to investigate the responsibl
 e use of neuroimaging in disorders of consciousness.\nClare is Past Presid
 ent of the Society for Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy and hosted th
 e society&rsquo\;s biennial meeting in 2012 at UCL. Clare is also Past Pre
 sident of the International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue and host
 ed the 42nd Annual Meeting of the society in 2014 at UCL. She is current P
 resident of the London International Youth Science Forum. She was a 2018 B
 ritish Science Association Media Fellow at the Financial Times and is a Fe
 llow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Society for Arts\, Manuf
 actures and Commerce. She is Founder and Trustee of the charity Young Scie
 ntists for Africa. She has won numerous awards for research\, teaching and
  public engagement and in July 2024 she delivered the UCL Festival of Engi
 neering &ndash\; Six Days to Change the World&nbsp\; which attracted over 
 10\,000 attendees of industry partners\, policy makers\, general public an
 d school and community groups to engage with engineering innovations at UC
 L.\n&nbsp\;\nABSTRACT:\nThe last decade has seen unprecedented advances in
  the capability of neuroimaging technologies for studies of the human brai
 n. Many of these advances have targeted increasingly specific investigatio
 ns of brain activity and function under a range of applications. The adven
 t of non invasive photonics technologies has opened up whole new horizons 
 for how\, when and where we can image the brain\nDuring this talk I will d
 iscuss the transformative impact of one such technology\, near infrared sp
 ectroscopy (NIRS)\, a portable\, wearable and affordable optical neuroimag
 ing technique. Engineering innovations have enabled NIRS images of brain o
 xygen metabolism to be acquired in infants and adults. NIRS studies of the
  developing brain are paving the way for early markers of autism and studi
 es in toddlers. And following its successful implementation in resource po
 or settings\, NIRS is now an important brain imaging tool in global health
  studies.\nWith these advances comes a responsibility to understand the et
 hical and societal implications of increased accessibility to brain imagin
 g and the data it generates. I will consider these issues and particularly
  the role played by medical physicists in guiding the appropriate use of n
 euroimaging technologies.
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