Epilepsy Seizure Detection

You know how we’re always waiting around to be rescued and hope someone will show up and save the day?
Well, now the wait is over.

The entire Romanian press, from playtech blogs to medicine newspapers to TV News Channels, is talking about these two Romanian young men who created a system that can change millions of lives.

Giving the fact that Vlad Teohari is my best friend, I have the honour to an insightful article, before they become rich, famous and successful. 🙂

Chronologically speaking, Vlad’s been talking about this idea of creating a system that can detect epilepsy seizures since he attended, in the summer of 2014, an internship at Eindhoven University of Technology. Together with Constantin Ungureanu, they built the first prototype that was called Epilepsy Seizure Detect.

I remember that during that time I was away in the USA and every time we Skyped Vlad seemed to be more and more enthusiastic and proud of his work. It was actually the first time I’ve ever seen him so passionate about …kinda anything he ever did before.

After his return to Romania, he continued to work and improve the app, talked to doctors and possible investors all day long. Not to enter into specific details, that you can check out here, Vlad told me the that Epilepsy Seizure Detection is the first Android app in the world for real-time detection of an epileptic seizure, based on heart rate and not only.

Anyway, back to the chronological order of events, in November 2014, Vlad attended AMI’14, The European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, where he presented  Epilepsy Seizure Detect, during an “WORKSHOP on Smart Healthcare and Healing Environments”, that took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
It was after AMI’14 when Vlad realised that his summer school idea was starting to become a serious thing that could become an actual real thing.

So he gathered up a team of three other people (Cristian Soare – Programming Developer, Radu Stefan Rogojina – Medicine student at Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, George Moisa – Pediatric Neurologist at Obregia Hospital in Bucharest), forming Epilepsy Combat, which joined Innovation Labs 2015, that took place on the 7th of March.
And this is where everything escalated. Their idea caught the eye of the Romanian press and of several investors who found the idea more than interesting.

Future plans?! Waiting for Vlad’s first million dollars to marry him. Oh, and for Epilepsy Combat, finding a good sponsor that believes in their idea and trying to release on the market an actual product.

For any other specific details, you can find the app on GooglePlay. Just click here. Or here. Or if you know Romanian, you can check out the press. here, here, or here or please just google it… you’ll find plenty!

Epilepsy Seizure Detection

P.S.
Vlad Mihai Teohari, I’m more than proud of you! And I know this is only the beginning! Love you!

Buh bye, 2014!!!

Ok, so there comes a time when you need to evaluate yourself. usually on your birthday or on occasions like this..new year’s eve.

2014 was a year full of ups and downs for me. I’ve lost someone very close to me, my grandma. She left this world on my birthday,it’s like, she wanted to make sure I’ll never forget her. I wouldn’t have anyway. I had other plans in the beginning of this year. Plans that changed due to different factors, plans that are pinned on my to do list and hopefully I’ll accomplish in the future.

On the bright side, I graduated. On the 27th of June I had my last exam and on the 28th I was meeting my love again. We spent amazing moments together, we got to know each other more and fall in love even deeper. But then we had to say goodbye in October..more like a see you later, hopefully. My love will wait for me. True love waits, right?

Back in Romania, I got a job out of the blue. unexpected. A job that I enjoy very much, which gave me the opportunity to meet wonderful people and make new friends.
So, that’s a short retrospective of 2014.

Only a few more hours until 2014 is out the door. Is gonna take with it all its good and bad. So, 2015, bring it on! I’m ready for whatever you’re getting ready to throw at me. I truly have a feeling it’s going to be my year, as a cliché as that sounds.

And so, as the internet is full of new year’s resolutions, I decided to write down a few of my own.

No.1 Start a #365reasons project on my blog
No. 2 Stop looking for love and appreciating the love that’s already in my life.
No.3 Quit those bad habits..or reduce some of them as much as I can
No.4 Become healthier. I’ll go on a diet and start exercising on 5th of January
No.5 Pass all my exams
No. 6 Get a promotion
No. 7 Accomplish some of those pinned plans and project.

No. 8 ….

I need to start getting ready for the New Year’s Eve party. So, put on those red panties/underwear and let’s hope 2015 is going to be the best year of our lives so far!

Happy New Years! and remember! Always hope.Never expect.