🎉 Exciting news! I am thrilled to announce that Nate has been granted the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship! Collaborating with MD Anderson Cancer Center, his research will revolutionize the way we provide care to oropharyngeal cancer survivors. It’s a great honor to serve as his mentor, and I couldn’t be prouder of his remarkable achievements!

We found bioimpedance was related to tongue strength and the presence of radiation-associated XII neuropathy. Our work paves the way to non-invasive bioimpedance as an adjunctive biomarker to assess tongue health in oropharyngeal cancer survivors.

In our latest work that made it to be in the front cover of Muscle and Nerve, we made a head-to-head comparison of standard EMG and impedance-EMG. The clinical problem: to diagnose muscular dystrophy from healthy muscle.

Did you know that 🏳️‍🌈 sexual and gender minorities (sometimes denoted LGBTQ+) have disproportionately high rates of depression, suicidal ideation, substance use, and physical health problems? Our new NIH grant will answer whether wearables can improve health disparities in LGBTQ + individuals during real-time social safety experiences in public settings by reducing their chronic threat-vigilance stress!

Delightful fundraising Hope Gala Casino Royale event from the American Cancer Society to support cancer research!

Non-melanoma skin cancers are the most common cancers in the U.S. and their incidence is increasing. Electrical impedance dermography (EID) is a newer non-invasive, quantitative and objective tool sensitive to detect alterations in the electrical properties of skin cancers. The overarching hypothesis of this proposal is that EID can be used to distinguish cancer subtypes that cannot be appreciated clinically.

Radiation-associated dysphagia (RAD) is a leading driver of quality of lige and a potentially life-threatening survivorship issue, afflicting more than half of patients treated with curative radiotherapy for head and neck cancers. In collaboration with MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, we will examine feasibility and criterion validity of surface electromyography as a rapid, non-invasive quantitative surveillance method for lingual denervation.

I am thrilled to lead an #NSF grant focused on #wearable #bioimpedance #devices for #cuffless #bloodpressure. A novel aspect of our approach is the integration of #physiological, #computational, and #machinelearning models to establish the biological sources relating #fluiddynamics and #electricity.

The NSF GRF recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists and engineers early in their careers. So proud of them!

Prior to this year (2023 award year), @UofUECE had 1 NSF GRFP award year 2015, 1 in award year 2011, 1 in award year 2010, 1 in award year 2003, and 1 in award year 2002.

Henry’s research on wearable health monitors has earned him a spot in the 2022 Lassonde Institute’s Student Innovation Report, an annual publication celebrating student innovation and impact at the University of Utah.