David Balch, MA, Director of Technical Services, Guardian 24/7
David is the retired Director of Telemedicine at East Carolina University. David is an innovator in telemedicine technologies, integrated systems, interoperability, human factors, and disaster response tools. David led an expert team in the development of an International Telemedicine Training Center, the Distributed Medical Intelligence Conference, Telemedicine practice innovations, and disaster response exercises. He initiated the Strong Angel project, the Distributed Medical Intelligence conference, and led a national team in biothreat readiness and response exercises at the 2003 Super Bowl. He has over 30 years experience in communications and has produced network television shows for Nickelodeon, HBO, Showtime, and PBS
"Professor Pedersen received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Aalborg Engineering College, Aalborg, Denmark, in 1971, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Bioengineering from University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in 1974 and 1976, respectively. In October 1987 he joined the faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA where he is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
His areas of expertise include ultrasound in telemedicine, mobile ultrasound systems, 3D imaging, ultrasound in pulmonary medicine, analytic modeling techniques for pulse echo ultrasound, development of injury-mimicking ultrasound phantoms, and non-invasive methods for atherosclerotic plaque classification.
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