Robert M. Bowie

Professor of Practice
Biomedical Engineering

Current Research

  • Development of UAV and Rover based sensor platforms to find and assess patients in Search and Rescue.
  • Use of High resolution imaging for finding missing and lost, processing and analysis of imaging for optimizing to locate patients.
  • EMS improved Improved Medevac Techniques.
  • Hazmat applications for UAV sensor systems for first responders.

Areas of Expertise

Cold injury frostbite and hyperthemia
Development of UAV and Rover based sensor platforms to find and assess patients in Search and Rescue
EMS improved Improved Medevac Techniques
Hazmat applications for UAV sensor systems for first responders
Long distance medicine
Remote search and rescue
Rural medicine
Telemedicine in Search and Rescue
UAVs and sensor use in assessing and finding lost and missing persons
Use of High resolution imaging for finding missing and lost, processing and analysis of imaging for optimizing to locate patients

Education

Residency Emergency Medicine, Brown University/Rhode Island Hospitals, Completed 1997
M.D., Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, Medical College of Virginia, 1992
M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Medical College of Virgina, 1987
B.S., Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1985
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