Remote clinical trials with wearables: from conception to implementation

Prof. Walter Karlen is professor for Biomedical Engineering at Ulm University since May 2021. He is the director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, Computer Science and Psychology. Prof. Karlen’s objective is to enable the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of major global health burdens by developing personalized methods, intelligent devices, and efficient systems that can be used at the point-of-care. His research focuses on the technical aspects of mobile health and point-of-care devices such as real-time biomedical signal processing, mobile computing, sensors and systems design, and quality control. He also works on the improvement of clinical decision support with the design of adaptive systems, smart alarms, and optimized user-machine interaction.