Talks and Publications
"Next Generation Disaster Response: Automated Patient Triage, Monitoring, and Tracking" T.Gao, C.Pesto, M.VanDaniker, J.Ko, Y.Chen, J.Lim, T.Kim, A.Terzis, A.Watt, J.Tracey, P.Anderson - in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security 2008.
"Creating A Hospital-Wide Patient Safety Net: Design and Deployment of ZigBee Vital Sign Sensors" T. Gao, L. Selavo, M. Welsh, American Medical Informatics Association Annual Conference (AMIA 2007), Chicago, IL, November 2007.
“Participatory User Centered Design Techniques for a Large Scale Ad-Hoc Health Information System,” T. Gao, L. Selavo, T. Massey, M. Welsh. Proceedings of HealthNet07 (in conjunction with MobiSys 07), Puerto Rico, June 11, 2007.
“Improving Medical Response Teams with Continuous Monitoring,” T. Gao, L. Selavo, B. Winters. Rapid Response Team Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, May 5-6, 2007.
“Deployment of Self-configuring Wireless Devices at a Simulated Mass Casualty Incident,” T. Gao, J. Jeng, L. Selavo. American Burn Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA March 22-25, 2007.
"Lifting the Fog of War: Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Network Sensors to Improve Situational Awareness during the Next Burn Mass Casualty," T. Gao, J. Jeng, L. Selavo, D. Crawford, P. Lunsford, B.R. Chen, K.Lorintz, M. Welsh. American Burn Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA March 22-25, 2007.
Invited talk at Johns Hopkins BioDesign Network, T. Gao, April 19, 2007.
"Next Generation Triage," T. Gao, D. White. IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society Conference (IEEE EMBS 2006), New York, NY, September 2006.
"A Cross-Functional Service Oriented Architecture to Support Real-Time Information Exchange during Mass Casualty Events," L. Hauenstein, T. Gao, D. White. IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society Conference (IEEE EMBS 2006), New York, NY, September 2006.
"Integration of Triage and Biomedical Devices for Continuous, Real-Time, Automated Patient Monitoring," T. Gao, T. Massey, J. Sharp, W. Bishop, D. Bernstein, A. Alm. IEEE Medical Devices and Biosensors Conference (IEEE MDBS 2006), Boston, MA, September 2006.
"Design of a Decentralized Electronic Triage System," T. Massey, T. Gao, M. Welsh, J. Sharp. American Medical Informatics Association Annual Conference (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 2006.
"Iterative User-Centered Design of a Next Generation Patient Monitoring System for Emergency Medical Response," T. Gao, M. Kim, A. Alm. American Medical Informatics Association Annual Conference (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 2006.
"Service-Oriented Architecture for Disaster Response: Integration of AID-N, MICHAELS, WISER, and ESSENCE," L. Hauenstein, T. Gao, D. White. American Medical Informatics Association Annual Conference (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 2006.
"Information Collection and Dissemination: Toward a portable, real-time information sharing platform for emergency response," D. Crawford, T. Gao, D. White. American Medical Informatics Association Annual Conference (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 2006.
"Pervasive Patient Tracking for Mass Casualty Incident Response," A. Alm, T. Gao, D. White. American Medical Informatics Association Annual Conference (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 2006.
"Paramedic Operations Specification as a Launching Point for Mass Casualty Incident-Targeted Engineering Design," A. Husain, T. Gao, D. White. American Medical Informatics Association Annual Conference (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 2006.
"UAV Surveillance System To Support Emergency Response to Disasters," P. Rodriguez. American Medical Informatics Association Annual Conference (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 2006.
Invited Talk: "Emergency Response Information Technology," D. White, T. Gao, L. Lenert, P. Oh, G. Blankenship. American Medical Informatics Association Annual Conference (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 2006.
"Vital Signs Monitoring and Patient Tracking Over a Wireless Network," T. Gao, D. Greenspan, M. Welsh, R. Juang, A. Alm. 27th IEEE EMBS Annual International Conference, September 2005.