People

These are the people responsible for running the openECGproject.

Table of contents

• Ivor Kovic
• Randy Bardwell
• Marcus Handmer
• Advisors
  • Gari Clifford

Ivor Kovic

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• Website: http://www.ivor-kovic.com

Ivor is a medical doctor working in the Ambulance Service in Croatia. He has always been interested in IT and is very involved with the research in the field of medical informatics. Medical informatics, more precisely the interconnections of medicine and internet are the subject of his PhD thesis he is currently working on. During the years he was one of the editors of a very popular medical blog called Medgadget, which is following emerging medical technologies. Today he regularly writes for a couple of Croatian medical journals, Croatian portal for Macintosh users, and his own blog. As an emergency physician he is fully aware of the importance of the prompt pre-hospital ECG recording and how it can affect the patient's outcome. He founded the openECGproject to enable physicians from middle and low income countries to acquire a low cost, but quality made and clinically useful ECGs.

Randy Bardwell

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• Website: http://www.clinicaltechreview.com/
• Education: University of Arkansas - Clinical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Product Management
• Work Experience: Formerly the president of Biomedics, Technical Director of the Cardiac Analysis Center, Senior Product Manager for ECG, Marquette Electronics (now GE), Senior Product Manager for ECG/ECG Systems Mortara Instrument, Cardiology Consultant Cerner Corp, and now Director of Product management/development for Lumedx.

Marcus Handmer

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• Website: http://www.neozap.com
• Location: Sydney, Australia

Marcus initially became interested in ECGs while beginning a Bachelor of Science (Adv) at The University of Sydney, building and modifying several units. He has since transferred to The University of Western Sydney where he is currently studying to become a Doctor of Medicine.
Marcus seeks to improve health care by producing innovative open source medical technology for developing and developed countries, and feels that simple solutions to complex problems will best improve worldwide health.

Advisors

Gari Clifford

• Website: http://www.mit.edu/~gari/

Gari is a Principal Research Scientist in the Laboratory for Computational Physiology at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences where he is the engineering manager of a R01 NIH-funded research program, "Integrating Data, Models, and Reasoning in Critical Care", and a part-time contributor to the well-known Physionet Research Resource.

He studied Physics and Electronics for his undergraduate degree, he has a Masters in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from Southampton University and a Ph.D. in Neural Networks and Biomedical Engineering from Oxford University. He has taught at Oxford, MIT and Harvard, and he is currently an Instructor in Biomedical Engineering at MIT.

He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has worked in industry on the design and production of several CE- and FDA-approved medical devices. He is a Scientific Advisor for various hardware and software companies including E-Trolz, who manufacture hardware for recording ECG data.

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