C. William Hanson, III, MD, is Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Surgery and Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Section Chief for Critical Care in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care. An internist and anesthesiologist, he is also Medical Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, devoted to the care of surgical and trauma patients.  William Hanson also has extensive experience in medical informatics and previously was Visiting Professor in the Princeton University Department of Computer Science, where he taught between 2002 and 2005. He serves as the Medical Director of Penn E-Lert eICU, a remote video and audio monitoring program for intensive care patients designed to augment staffing on the unit. This “eICU” program is one of the largest in the nation, having recently added monitoring capabilities for Good Shepherd Penn Partners, a new Long Term Acute Care unit. His research using “electronic nose” technology to detect diseases such as pneumonia by breath analysis has been featured in Scientific American. Last fall he published The Edge of Medicine: The Technology That Will Change Our Lives, a non-fiction book profiling innovations in biotechnology that are changing the delivery of medical care and the ways in which they’re altering the human experience.  His work has been profiled in USA Today, US News and World Report, Popular Science and by the BBC.