IEEE-Madison Section Meeting Reminder

IEEE-Madison Engineers in Medicine and Biology Chapter:
"Immuno-Autonomics: A Sea Change in Clinical Care"

• Wednesday, May 18th, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Talk by Dr, Andrew Holman, CEO of Inmedix, Inc.
• Joint Dinner Meeting with the Technical Club of Madison
• Location: 
        Imperial Garden 2039 Allen Blvd, Middleton, WI 53562
• Please Register at the Vtools Event page  here.
  
  Note: The May meeting will be a joint in person meeting with the Technical
  Club of Madison.  People usually start arriving at 6:00 pm and the talk
  begins at 7:00 pm.  Between these two times we can enjoy a nice family
  style Chinese dinner with all you can eat.  The cost for the dinner is
  $20, cash, at the meeting.  Anyone who wants to come must register by May 14 so that
  the restaurant prepares enough food. IEEE members who do not want food may attend at NO COST.

Abstract:  Twenty years after the launch of biologic treatments for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), it has become increasingly apparent that only 25% of these patients treated achieve adequate success regardless of the immune target addressed.  The solution forced immunologists to seek answers in unexpected places and to rely on technology completely foreign to them.  The immune system is regulated by the brain, specifically the autonomic nervous system (ANS) which modulates fight-or-flight adrenaline and recovery phases.  It is measured best by heart rate variability (HRV) - a techniques used to quantify stress in over 50,000 peer-review studies.  In addition, the software, hardware, and firmware engineering of HRV has been significantly upgraded to enhance its precision.

This 5-min, next-generation HRV supports patients with autoimmune disease by applying a cardiovascular platform (ECG) to assess a brain function (ANS) to solve a clinical immunology problem.  It is first to predict 52-wk biologic outcome in RA with 90% sensitivity and 95.7% specificity in a prospective, double-blind trial.  Of equal importance, optimizing adverse (fight-or-flight predominant) ANS profile increased RA remission from 25% to 79%.  The new concept, called immuno-autonomics, represents a sea change in clinical care.

Bio: Dr. Holman is the founding rheumatologist at Pacific Rheumatology Associates Inc PS, Director of Research at Pacific Rheumatology Research Inc., a former President of the Northwest Rheumatism Society (2005) and a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington.   He has 25 year clinical and 19 year rheumatology research career experience with 16 lead author published papers, 25 lead author published abstracts.   For Inmedix, he has designed, completed and published 15 clinical studies, including FDA negotiations, involving nearly 1500 patients.

Research highlights include discovering and licensing use of dopamine agonists as a treatment of  fibromyalgia, applying autonomic nervous system (ANS) analysis with heart rate variability (HRV) to elevate treatment remission rates in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases, and broadening understanding of pain in patients with PC3 (positional cervical cord compression) using dynamic cervical magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI).

IEEE-Madison At the Mallards Social Outing

• Monday, May 30th, 3:30 PM to (End of game ~ 8:00 PM)
• Free (2 tickets) to IEEE Member and Guest
• Access to the Duck Blind includes snacks and beverages
  
• Location: 
        2920 N. Sherman Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53704
       Building: Duck Pond
• You MUST REGISTER  at the Vtools Event page  here. 
• Include a valid Email Address and your IEEE MEMBER Number for the tickets
• Register before MAY 21st please!
  
  Note: When registering, please enter the number of tickets you want (one or two free, with or without beer). You will need to pay for the tickets beyond 2 free ones with cash or check at the game.  Ticket ordering will be through vTools. If you order more than two tickets, please be prepared to pay for the additional ticket(s) upon arrival at the Duck Pond. The tickets that include beer are $35.00, those that do not are $26.00.
  
  To be clear, you need to explicitly order all tickets, not just those for which you will be paying.
  
  Tickets will be distributed electronically, so please make sure that your email address is correctly entered.

Event:  To start the summer off, Monday, May 30 is going to be IEEE Night at the Madison Mallards. They will be playing the Lakeshore Chinooks to open their 2022 season. We hope that you'll join us. We will be sitting in "The Duck Blind", which has chairs and tables to allow mingling (unlike bleacher seating).

May 30 is Memorial Day. Although you might be going "Up North" for the three-day weekend, game time isn't until 4:00pm, so you can still make it with a slightly earlier departure than usual.

To encourage you to attend, IEEE Madison will cover the cost of two tickets. You are welcome to bring the whole family (and your neighbors), but will need to pay for tickets beyond two.

A ticket for the Duck Blind includes snacks and beverages. Order your tickets now and get in on the fun!