/> Professor Toumazou will be the closing conference speaker for the “Towards Personalized Medicine and Monitoring for Healthy Living” forum. His presentation, entitled “Towards disposable healthcare: a paradigm shift”, will be given on Thursday 24th February 2011. Toumaz CTO Dr Alison Burdett will also be chairing a key panel on the topic of “Body Area Networks: Technology, Solutions and Standarization”, which will include a contribution from Toumaz’s Okundu Omeni covering MAC & security network solutions for Body Area Networks (BANs).

Professor Toumazou invented the foundation technology for Toumaz’s Sensium™ system – the ultra-low power platform for rapid development of wireless Body Area Networks (BANs) – and was the 2009 winner of the World Technology Award for Health and Medicine.

ISSCC is the flagship conference of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and each year features leading global experts in the field. This year’s conference will feature more than 200 technical presentations representing benchmark results, design in state-of-the-art process technologies, and circuits in emerging device technologies. ISSCC 2011 will also offer a variety of educational events (tutorials, short course), advanced-circuit forums and evening sessions. This year’s theme of “Electronics for healthy living” reflects the increasing role that electronics is playing in enabling healthier lifestyles, diagnosis and treatment of illnesses, improved quality of life for those with chronic disease and disabilities, and the earlier detection of health risks.