Jane Doe-Dowager
Degree
Bachelor of Health Sciences
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Jane Doe-Dowager is a physiatrist at Parkwood Institute and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University. She is currently enrolled in a Master’s program in Clinical Epidemiology through the Health Research Methodology program at McMaster University with a focus on fracture treatment and prevention in older patients after stroke.
Bone and Joint Institute: Can you tell us a bit more about XYZ?
Jane Doe-Dowager: I currently work with a company that manufactures a dynamic seat that keeps your body in motion.
On the hardware side, we are developing sensors that are placed on the surface of the seat to measure the pressure distribution as a person is sitting on it.
On the software side, we are developing algorithms that allow us to detect a person’s posture while using the seat, assess quality of posture and provide feedback if a person holds a particular posture for too long.
How interesting! Tell us more about another thing.
It's apparently an unsolved statistical problem. I don’t know anything about oil sands or trail cameras, but now I'm meeting to discuss a project about oil sands and trail cameras. It's a weekly occurrence where I learn about a completely new area of science that has been surprisingly unsolved and where statistics is apparently the answer. It’s incredible.
And what about that third thing?
This is used by the environmental protection agencies all over the world to decide, you know, how much mercury we're allowed to have in the fish we eat and things like that. But it's actually statistically very poorly understood, apparently. Or at least, there's room to understand more about the properties of these estimates. So I don't know anything about toxicology, but suddenly I'm working on a toxicology related project. As a statistician, there are things like that that just pop up all the time.
