CareLink360 Appoints Dr. Newton Howard to its Board of Advisors.
Flemington, NJ — CareLink360 today announced that Dr. Newton Howard, Veteran Brain and Cognitive Scientist, Founder and Former Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Mind Machine Project, and professor of Computational Neurology and Functional Neurosurgery at Georgetown University will join its Board of Advisors effective December 5.
Dr. Howard, a well-respected global entrepreneur, and health industry veteran with deep research and operational experience in Cognition, Memory, Trauma, Machine Learning, Comprehensive Brain Modeling, Natural Language Processing, Nanotech, Medical Devices and Artificial Intelligence will advise CareLink360 in building out and scaling their global cognitive solutions and eco-system for aging adults including those living with Alzheimer’s Disease, Dementia, or Mild Cognitive Impairment, their caregivers, healthcare professionals, and extended care teams.
“It is an honor to welcome Dr. Howard to the CareLink360 Advisory Board,” said David Duplay, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, CareLink360. “Dr. Howard’s extensive background in launching and scaling the Brain Sciences Foundation (BSF), an organization with the goal of improving the quality of life for those suffering from neurological disorders perfectly aligns with the CareLink360 mission of Changing The Way The World Ages through our cognitive solutions for aging adults in addition to our ability to deliver Social Nutrition through Virtual Social Therapy,” added Duplay.
“I am honored to join the CareLink360 Advisory Board and look forward to working with Dave and his extraordinarily talented team of executives and fellow board members. CareLink360 provides a much needed and life changing solution set to a vulnerable and rapidly growing global aging population, their families, caregivers, and extended care teams. With CareLink360’s brain fitness activities, health and wellness education, important medication and other reminders, along with the ability to track and measure cognitive stability and/or cognitive decline over time through ALBERTai, CareLink360 is an important solution to facilitate shared decision making between aging loved ones and their healthcare professionals,” said Dr. Howard.
“CareLink360 is an innovative quality of life eco-system and solution set for the significant and growing global population of aging adults, along with people living with mental health and other cognitive conditions or physical limitations. In addition to the aging population, CareLink360 provides Social Nutrition to adult children living with mental health challenges whose family limit or prohibit their access to the internet because of their vulnerability to the negative influences and predators targeting this population of our society” stated Dr. Howard.
About CareLink360
At CareLink360, our mission is to Change to The Way The World Ages by being the global leader in assisting our clients to deliver high-quality, person-and-patient centered care across the care continuum; through our integrated, patented, and easy to use Digital Health Companion. We strive to mitigate the global epidemic of isolation and loneliness which affects people of all ages, races, gender, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The current competitive landscape consists of browser and web-based applications which require a base knowledge of user technology. The CareLink360 Digital Health Companion, is currently the single device in the market that was designed from the ground up to accommodate non-technical users and is protected under four US patents.
About Dr. Newton Howard
Dr. Newton Howard is a brain and cognitive scientist, the former founder and director of the MIT Mind Machine Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a professor of computational neurology and functional neurosurgery at Georgetown University. He was a professor of at the University of Oxford, where he directed the Oxford Computational Neuroscience Laboratory.
Dr. Howard is also the director of MIT’s Synthetic Intelligence Lab, the founder of the Center for Advanced Defense Studiesand the chairman of the Brain Sciences Foundation. Professor Howard is also a senior fellow at the John Radcliffe Hospital at Oxford, a senior scientist at INSERM in Paris and a P.A.H. at the CHU Hospital in Martinique.
His research areas include Cognition, Memory, Trauma, Machine Learning, Comprehensive Brain Modeling, Natural Language Processing, Nanotech, Medical Devices and Artificial Intelligence.
Howard earned his B.A. from Concordia University Ann Arbor and an M.A. in Technology from Eastern Michigan University. He went on to study at MIT and at the University of Oxford where, as a graduate member of the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, he proposed the Theory of Intention Awareness (IA). Dr. Howard also received a Doctorate in Cognitive Informatics and Mathematics from the University of Paris-Sorbonne, where he was also awarded a Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches for his work on the Physics of Cognition (PoC).
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