2008 USC Body Computing Slam: Presentation 4

The 2008 University of Southern California Body Computing Conference was held at USC on October 24, 2008, hosted by Leslie Saxon, chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.

Making the fourth presentation was Chris Kasabach, cofounder and director of BodyMedia, Inc. Mr. Kasabach presented on his company, BodyMedia, which produces wearable wireless devices for health and fitness monitoring. BodyMedia has had products on the market for years, and is a major player in the wearable device sector.

Dr. Saxon emceed the session. Judges were Francis Pereira, director of industry research at the USC Institute for Communications Technology and Management; John Lalonde, vice president of Latitude Research & Development at Boston Scientific CRM; Donald Jones, vice president for business development at Qualcomm, Inc.; Jonathan Lash, director of the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at USC; and Neil Eigler, senior vice president of CRMD Technology Incubation at St. Jude Medical.

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