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Robert S. H. IstepanianBold textProfessor of Data Communications in Kingston University, London and a Visiting Professor in the Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, St. George’s University of London. He obtained his PhD from the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department Loughborough University, UK in 1994. From 1984 to 1998 he worked in different overseas industrial and academic positions. In 1988 he was a Visiting research Fellow in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University and a postdoctoral fellow in the same department (1994-96). Prior to his current academic post, he held several academic posts in the Universities of Portsmouth and Brunel University, London and was also an associate Professor in the Universities of Ryerson, Toronto and West Ontario in Canada. He is investigator and co-investigator of many EPSRC and EU research grants and other research /visiting grants from the British Council and Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering in the areas of wireless telemedicine and m-health systems. He was also the UK lead investigator of several EU -IST and e-Ten projects in the areas of mobile healthcare ( m-health), including OTELO project (IST -2001-32516- 2001-04) and C-MONITOR (eTen- Contract C27256) on Chronic Disease Management ( 2002-04) and e-Dispute (2004-06). Professor Istepanian is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology (Formerly IEE) and Senior Member of the IEEE. He currently serves on several IEEE Transactions and international journals and editorial boards including IEEE Transaction on Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioScience and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He has also served as guest editor of three special issues of the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (on seamless mobility for healthcare and m-health systems, 2005) and IEEE Transactions of NanoBioScience (on Microarray Image Processing, 2004). He also serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, Journal of Mobile Multimedia and the Journal of HealthCare Information Technologies. He was the co-chairman of the UK/RI chapter of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology in 2002. He also served on numerous technical committees, expert panelist and invited keynote speaker in several international conferences in UK and USA and Canada including, the Harvard and Partners Telemedicine conference on ‘Optimising Care Through Communication Technologies’ (Boston-2005) and the second International Conference on Smart homes and health Telematics, ICOST (Singapore-2004) and the ‘Building on Broadband Britain’ Conference (London-2005). He also presented papers and chaired sessions/ tracks on several national and international IEEE conferences in these areas including the Telemed conferences of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, IEEE- Engineering in Medicine and Biology International Annual Conferences (IEEE-EMBS 97, 98, 99, 06), the 2000 World Medical Congress, Chicago all in the areas of mobile E-health systems. He is on the technical committee of the IEEE HealthComm International Workshops (Nancy, France2002),(Los Angeles, 2003) and (Seoul, 2005) He was also the Co-Chair of the Technical Committee of the IEEE-EMBS Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB) in Birmingham, UK, April 24-26, 2003. He is also on the technical committee of the International Congress of Medical and Care Compunetics- ICMCC (La Hague, 2004 and 2005). His biography is cited in the ‘Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering’, 7th and 8th, 9th.and 10th editions (2003-2007). He has published more than 160-refereed journal and conference papers and edited three books including chapters in the areas of biomedical signals processing and mobile communications for healthcare and m-health technologies.