DRACHMA

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Drone Research for Advancing Community Healthcare and Medicines Access network webinar

You are invited to attend the Drone Research for Advancing Community Healthcare and Medicines Access network webinar. DRACHMA is a vibrant group of over a hundred members covering drone manufacturers, developers and operators right through to clinicians and medical commissioning groups.

It’s a friendly network that exchanges best practice and develops ideas. The aim of DRACHMA is to create new collaborations to aid the development of drone technologies for healthcare and medicines access. Our meetings are aimed at, but not limited to, Drone Researchers, Drone Developers and Drone Operators, Healthcare Researchers and Healthcare Service Providers. Innovators, entrepreneurs, engineers, regulators, researchers, pilots, community leaders, surgeons, paramedics, nurses, patient advocates, undergraduate and PhD students through to eminent Professors, all make up our community. Recordings of previous meetings may be found here.

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DRACHMA Meeting – Skyports – Cascade – CAA Drop Test – Intelsius – Best Practice

 

Agenda for the DRACHMA July meeting: Drone Research for Advancing Community Healthcare & Medicine Access

15:00 to 16:30 BST, Monday 18th July 2022 online meeting.

* 15:00 -15:10 Welcome & Introduction. Paul Royall, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London & DroneMatLab Ltd.

*15:10 -15:25 Recent Success in Drone Medical Logistics: Ideal attributes of a Medicine Delivery Drone. Paul Rigby, Skyports Drone Services.

 * 15:25 – 15:30 Q&A.

 * 15:30 – 15:45 Cascade Llanbedr Flight Tests: Cooperative Airspaces Managed for Multimodal Drone Operations. Andy Oakey, Transportation Research Group, Boldrewood Innovation Campus, University of Southampton.

 * 15:45 – 15:50 Q&A.

* 15:50 -16:05 Meeting the CAA drop test challenge: Crash Proof Drone Medical Cargo Packaging. Jens Mangelsen, DGP Intelsius Ltd.

 * 16:05 -16:10 Q&A.

 * 16:10 – 16:25 Sharing best UAS practice: It’s about the data. Patrick Courtney, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London & DroneMatLab Ltd.

 * 16:25 – 16:30 Q&A, closing remarks & introduction of a special issue in the Journal Drones.

 

For an invitation to the Meeting, please email Paul Royall.

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DRACHMA: Connected Drone Medical Logistics & the Role of Robots

OSPREH – Optimizing Speed Productivity Resilience Efficiency in Healthcare – Enabling Drone Deliveries in the NHS.  Dr Dennis Majoe, Motion Robotics Ltd.

Medical Drone Operations for Good: A discussion of the broader ecosystem in the Global South. David Guerin, Safety, Operations and Regulations Advisor – African Drone Forum.

The role of AVIATE+ cluster in testing new UAV & Drone technologies for  Healthcare Operations. Veronica Rigby, Research and Innovation, Cranfield University.

5th May 2022 15:00-16:30 UK

 

Please email Paul Royall for a Teams Meeting invitation

[email protected]

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DRACHMA: Real World UAV Testing of Healthcare Drones

Real World UAV testing: How to Test the Flight Safety of Healthcare Drones.

Alex Williamson, Unmanned Aerial Systems Manager Cranfield University.

(Additional Speakers to be confirmed).

7th April 2022 15:00-16:30 UK

Please email Paul Royall for a Team meeting invitation

[email protected]

 

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DRACHMA: Drone Economics: Evaluating the Commercial Viability of Medical Drone Operations.

Prof Karl-Arne Johannessen, Department of Health Management & Health Economics, University of Norway

(Additional Speaker to be confirmed).

3rd March 2022 12:30-13:30 UK

Please email Paul Royall for a Teams meeting invitation

[email protected]

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DRACHMA Meeting: Curating Medical Drone Delivery Data

Gabriella (Gabo) Ailstock from VillageReach will be talking about the curation of Medical Drone Delivery mission data.

 

To register for this event, please email Paul Royall on [email protected] with DRACHMA in the subject line

 

Previous Meetings:

April 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHqtx7qc41I

  • Presentations & Speakers: UK UAV for Health – Post Pandemic Possibilities
  • Deirdre Wallace, Health & Care Innovation Lead, Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford,
  • UK Apian – delivering faster, smarter and cleaner healthcare Hammad Jeilani, co-founder Apian, UK

May 2021:

Two fantastic presentations from two leaders in the field of healthcare delivery using drones. Experiences and lessons learnt from bi-directional drone transport proof of concept projects in Africa.

  • Astrid Knoblauch, Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute; Department of Epidemiology & Public Health. Drone delivered defibrillators for out of hospital cardiac arrest.
  • Sheldon Cheskes, Medical Director, Sunnybrook Centre for Prehospital Medicine, Toronto, Canada.
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DRACHMA: Insights from Locally-led Drone Delivery Projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America

with Dr Patrick Meier
Co-Founder & Executive Director WeRobotics.

Followed by a presentation of the findings of the meeting feedback survey, (there is still time to complete – please click on the link) and discussion led by the attendees concerning the development of the network & meetings.

DRACHMA: Drone Research for Advancing Community Healthcare & Medicine Access

For TEAMs meeting invite & link email: [email protected] & [email protected]