Diana Hodgins
Managing Director
European Technology for Business (ETB)
United Kingdom
Biography
Diana obtained her degree in Mechanical Engineering and her PhD in solid state gyroscopes from the University of Hertfordshire (UH). Diana has 30 patents granted on solid state sensors and more recently on medical applications relating to the use of these sensors. In 2000 Diana was awarded an MBE for services to SMEs in the region and in 2002 she won the Women Inventor of the Year Award for Industry. In 2005 Diana was awarded an Honorary doctorate from the UH for services to innovation. In 1995 Diana and her husband established their own business, ETB and in 2009 ETB launched their sensor based gait monitoring product, GaitSmart. This is now a world leading product used in wide range of medical and sports applications around the world. One of the sectors where it is applied is orthopaedics and a number of papers have been published on this topic. Diana is currently a visiting professor at the UH and helped to establish a new MEng course in Biomedical Engineering and in 2014 was awarded Alumni of the year at the UH.
Research Interest
Diana has a strong research interest in developing tools to improve diagnosis of hip and knee OA and to improve the functional outcomes of those people who have received a hip or knee joint replacement.