Building Intelligent Systems to Detect Cardiopulmonary Emergencies

SPEAKER: Jake Sunshine, MD, Associate Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine; Research Scientist at Google

Abstract: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a time-sensitive emergency that requires prompt identification and intervention: sudden, unwitnessed cardiac arrest is nearly unsurvivable. A cardinal sign of cardiac arrest is sudden loss of pulse. Automated biosensor detection of unwitnessed cardiac arrest, and dispatch of medical assistance, may improve survivability given the substantial prognostic role of time, but only if the false-positive burden on public emergency medical systems is minimized. This talk will discuss how a multimodal, machine learning-based algorithm on a smartwatch can reach performance thresholds making it deployable at a societal scale.

Bio: Jake Sunshine, M.D., is a Research Scientist at Google and Associate Professor at the University of Washington, with appointments in the Schools of Medicine and Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. His research is focused on technology-based translational research, at the intersection of clinical medicine, computer science and public health. His work involves finding ways to use smart devices for critical health sensing to help lessen the burden of public health challenges, particularly related to unwitnessed, time-sensitive emergencies such as cardiac arrest. His research has been funded by NIH, NSF, BARDA, private foundations and industry. His research has been published in Nature, Science Translational Medicine, Circulation, Health Affairs and npj Digital Medicine and covered by the Washington Post, STAT, NPR, Scientific American, Wired magazine and others. His essays on health and technology have been published in local and national media, including Slate and the New York Times. Prior to Google he was the Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Sound Life Sciences, a Seattle-based health sensing startup acquired by Google in 2022

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https://www.uwmedicine.org/bios/jacob-sunshine#about-tab
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-sunshine-216238ab/
https://www.jacobsunshine.org