Patrick S. Hamilton

Dr. Hamilton is a co-inventor of the Thermedical® Ablation System. Dr. Hamilton leads Thermedical’s® technical development and implementation of the Thermedical® Ablation System. Dr. Hamilton has considerable experience designing and implementing hardware and software for diagnostic and therapeutic medical systems. As a research engineer at the MIT Hyperthermia Lab, he designed and implemented the hardware and software for control of a high-powered, focused ultrasound system for hyperthermia treatment of tumors. Dr. Hamilton has developed and implemented software for cardiac beat detection, beat classification, ECG data compression, and fibrillation detection. His ECG analysis software is the basis for five commercial ECG analysis systems. He founded PH Software to handle licensing and marketing of his ECG analysis and compression software, and he is the author of the predominant open source software for ECG analysis.