Mahsa Khalili

Mahsa is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of British Columbia. As a researcher on the Canadians Saving Arrest Victims Everywhere (CanSAVE) Biosensor project, her research is focused on using wearable devices to detect out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) incidents. This work involves (1) identifying/developing appropriate wearable sensors to collect bio-signals associated with cardiac arrest conditions (e.g., optical sensors); and (2) using machine learning algorithms to identify appropriate combinations of collected bio-signals to detect a cardiac arrest event. The outcome of this research contributes to rapid recognition of OHCA, which can summon bystanders and Emergency Medical Services to provide the required emergent life-saving interventions in a timely manner.