E-MEDICINE STAFF

Under the leadership of Professor K Yogesan, the Centre for e-Health has grown at a tremendous pace. In 2005, the Centre for e-Health, in collaboration with Edith Cowan University and the University of Western Australia, successfully won $2.25 million in Western Australian state government funding to form the Centre of Excellence in e-Medicine (e-Medicine).

e-Medicine will continue the eye focused research undertaken by the Centre for e-Medicine, and will undertake research in other areas of telemedicine. These include research & development of a portable x-ray device and haptics training technology. For more information on e-Medicine, please visit www.emedicine.com.au.

KANAGASINGAM YOGESAN
Director
yogesan@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Professor Yogesan is a world-leading medical-informatics specialist. Professor Yogesan is the Director of the Centre for E-Medicine based at LEI and a Professor at the Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences in the University of Western Australia. He has previously worked in Norway and Japan and helped develop the Centre for E-Medicine into a world-class research facility. Professor Yogesan has a well-established track record in R&D into biomedical instrumentation, digital imaging, e-Health and telemedicine. He has published over 70 papers in leading international journals on these subject areas. He has obtained 6 patents for medical imaging devices and software algorithms. In 2002 Prof Yogesan was recognised as one of Western Australia’s top medical and health researchers by the Department of Health and the Medical and Health Research Infrastructure Council.

ILOS EIX
Biomedical Engineer

Ilos is a biomedical engineer at the Lions Eye Institute. After finishing his studies in Systems & Software Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe/Germany, he worked for three years at the Microsystems Technology and Optics Group (http://www.itiv.org/emed ) at the Institute for Information Processing Technology (http://www.itiv.org), before joining the Lions Eye Institute in February 2005. He is involved in research and product development in the field of non-invasive glucose measurements on the eye and a Multipurpose Imaging Device.

KAREN MONTICELLI
Personal Assistant to Prof K Yogesan
Medical Research Administration Officer
karen@lei.org.au

Karen Monticelli is the Personal Assistant for Professor Yogesan Kanagasingam and Ms Sue Lynn Wong. She is also the Medical Research Administration Officer for the team in telemedicine and e-Medicine. She completed her Certificate III in Business Administration as a trainee in 2003 and was nominated for Trainee of the Year and Student of the Year in South Australia in 2003. Karen has a strong administration background having previously worked as an Administration Officer in the Employment and Training industry and Greeting Cards industry.

YOHANES AGUNG RIONO
Research Assistant
ariono@lei.org.au

Agung is a research assistant at LEI; his research interest is in glucose metabolism in the eye in relation to the visual cycle. Dr Riono completed his Master of Science at the University of the Philippines, major in Physiology and minor in Anatomy in 1991. He pursued his PhD at the University of Western Australia, studying anatomy and physiology of programmed cell death (apoptosis) in sperm cells in 1995. After completing his PhD, he returned to Indonesia and worked as a researcher at the Brain Foundation, where he worked on the project in geriatric, the role of testosterone in dementia. He returned to Perth in 2005 and joined LEI working on the "Non-invasive measurement of blood components using retinal imaging" project.

KAMBIZ BAHAADINI
kambiz@lei.org.au

Dr Kambiz Bahaadini is a Medical Practitioner from Iran, who joined the Centre of Excellence in e-Medicine in 2006. Dr Bahaadini received a scholarship from the Iranian Government to complete his speciality PhD in Telemedicine at the University of Western Australia. Currently he is working on a project entitled ?Telemedicine in disaster and emergency situations?, under the supervision of Professor Yogesan and the emergency specialist Associate Professor Peter Sprivulis. Dr Bahaadini is aiming to be proactive with his research and implement a telemedicine/ tele-emergency system in Iran; a country where such a service would be very beneficial for people living in remote and rural areas.