Simon Egerton

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About Simon Egerton

Associate Professor Simon Egerton is based at La Trobe’s Bendigo Campus. He's the director of the Technology Innovation Lab and leads the Regional Rural Remote Digital Health Research Group. He specialises in applying technology, Internet of Things and Robotics to improve health and wellbeing outcomes in regional, rural and remote communities through the co-design of digital health research. A focus for Simon's research is the application of digital health technology for the mitigation and management of chronic disease across regional, rural and remote Australia. A notable contribution to this work was “Driving digital transformation of regional aged care through the innovation corridor: An Internet of Medical Things Aged Care Service Model”, a project funded by Regional Development Victoria which extended medical services into the homes of those at risk of hospitalization with chronic disease. The project developed IoT Technology to deliver services in rural areas without traditional mobile phone and WiFi coverage, the application and results represented an Australian first. Simon is co-founder and director of the Creative Science Foundation (CSf), a non-profit foundation based in the United Kingdom dedicated to exploring the use of science fiction as a means to motivate and direct research into new technologies. Simon leads the Creative Robotix project for CSf, a spin off research project which is being adopted into schools across the region and further afield. If you would like to explore collaborations in the above areas, or are interested to pursue a higher degree by research please reach out to me for discussion