Victoria Ramos

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and Telemedicine from University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain. Telecommunications Engineer from Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain.

From 1985 till 1996 she worked as a Radio communications R+D engineer in the private industry.

Since 1996, she has been a research scientist and now she is a PhD researcher, as civil servant, at the Health Institute Carlos III, belonging to the Ministry of Health and Consume Affairs, in the Research Area of Telemedicine and Information Society.

Her research main interest is the assessment of Electromagnetic environment for the potential safe use of home Telemedicine systems due to an increasing implementation of home care applications, especially for chronic patients and elderly care since a large number of wireless links coexist in the same area with people and electronic medical devices. It involves standards related to human exposure, medical devices immunity and radio communication EMC.

Her research focuses on the area of wireless communications applications for home care and the next generations of Sensors Networks and Body Area Networks and telemedicine applications. The objectives are to provide health care for mobile citizens and eHealth focusing on new emergent health services based on telemedicine.

She is author, co-authored of several books as well as of several papers for scientific congresses. Dr. Ramos takes part of several Spanish Standardizations Committees and in the Head of Spanish Association of Telecommunications Engineering.

E-mail vramos@isciii.es