Awards & Recognition

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• 2020 Finalist at Idea-Fest Competition, Raleigh, NC, USA 

• 2020 Finalist NC Data Challenge: Showacase, Charlotte, NC, USA

• 2019 Recipient of Donald Lindberg's Award for Health IT Innovation

• Accepted and completed Velocity Accelerator Program - Creative HealthTech

• Innovation Talk for Gamified Surgical Virtual Workspace, Harvard Medical School 2018

• Graduate Research Assistantship – University of Missouri, School of Medicine 2017

• Nominated to Rollins Society – University of Missouri by Department of Health Management & Informatics, MU 2018

• Honorable Mentions – American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) 2018

• Best Medical App at World Summit Awards 2017 – Sutures App

• Gold Thesis Award for Most Outstanding Undergraduate Engineering Thesis at Manufacturing Dept., DLSU. 2015

• 1st Prize for Best Technical Product at DITECH Innovation Fair, DLSU. 2015

• Top 10 Selected Disaster Relief Projects at IEEE Insight Region 10 Congress, India. 2013

• Scholarship for Outstanding B2 German at Goethe Institute, Morocco. 2008

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Projects, Products & Intellectual Publications

• Cognitive Disorder Ontology: Behavioral and Physiological Symptoms in Diagnosing Common Anxiety Disorders – Implemented in WebProtege

• Point-of-Care Primary Diagnostic Expert System for Infectious Diseases – implemented in Prolog

• iHEAR – Patient centered platform for hearing aids adjustment among aging adults

• MyTrybe – Remote patient-care activation Platform for adults with Diabetes

• Oncoweb Portal – Data curation and warehousing for Oncology Data

• Sutures Simulator – intelligent Decision Support System for Pre-operative surgical training and communication

• InSight AI Psychotherapist – Decision Support System for remote and artificially intelligent conversational psychotherapy

• Psypher – gamified psychiatric assessment for PTSD stressor identification therapy 

• Usop,K.,(2019,May), A Systematic Review of “Personalized Medicine” Mobile Health Technologies and  Their Im pact on Consumer Health (in review)

• Usop, K., (2018, May), Impacts of Integrating Gamified Surgery Educational Technologies in Healthcare. In Journal of Serious Games for Health and Medicine (preprint)

• Bouras, M.,Usop, K., Popescu, M., (2018, March), Empowering Diabetes Self-management by Gamifying Intelligent System: MyTrybe Framework. In IEEE MECBME, 2018, IEEE

• Mandal, S.,Usop, K., Ong, R., Gonzalez, E.A., & Reilly, R. (2014, April). IEEE Direct to Students program (D2S): Changing dynamics of education and Innovation. In Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2014 IEEE (pp. 987 - 990), IEEE.

• Usop,K.(2019,April).GamificationasanEnd-gametoHealthcareInnovation–PanelDiscussion,American Healthcare Executive (ACHE), West Florida Chapter.

• Usop, K., (2018, March). Gamifying Surgery: How to design a bio-inspired game engine for Virtual Surgical Procedures. In Virtual Reality Symposium - Harvard Medical School, 2018, United States of America.

• Usop,K.,(2016, July). Application of a Mobile Platform For Instant Messaging, Classification and Transfer of Medical Data: A Conceptual Framework. In e-Health and Telemedicine in Mediterranean Countries, 2016, Kingdom of Morocco.

• Usop, K.,(2014, December). Telecare: Human-Centered Design Analysis for Elderly People with Mild Dementia. In Koszalin University of Technology Telehealth Symposium, 2014, Poland.

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Training, Education and Industrial Experience

• Master of Science in Health Informatics – BioInformatics (2019)

• Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering and Management with Specialization in Biomedical Engineering ( 2015)

• Peer Reviewer at IEEE Journal for Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)

• Peer Reviewer at Europen Journal for Biomedical Informatics

• Peer-Reviewer at Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)

• Google Women TechMakers – Morocco Lead (2017)

• Google Developers Group Rabat Section –Co-organizer (2017)

• IEEE Education Society – Program manager (2012-2014)

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Industrial Involvement

• Innovation Architect Mentor for multiple Health Tech companies (under Medverse labs LLC)

• Co-Founder of  Techverse coworking space & incubator- Rabat city (under ASEAN industries LLC)

• Co-Founder of GINA Health AI Startup (under Gina Health LLC)

• Co-Founder of Techversity  Mindshops

• Former R&D Manager at Duke University – Biomedical Engineering

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