[Tccc] Point-of-Care Healthcare Technologies - Bangalore, India - 16-18 January 2013

D.Bernstein@ieee.org D.Bernstein
Mon Jul 2 10:13:04 EDT 2012


IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society is pleased to announce 
the IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conference on Point-Of-Care (POC) Healthcare 
Technologies that will focus on innovation, research, technology 
development and best practices in deployment of health monitoring 
technologies in developing and developed economies for better global 
healthcare. The conference will feature research presentations and 
technology panel discussions and forums on recent technological advances 
and global issues on implementation of POC technologies.  Though the 
challenges of providing high-quality healthcare in developing countries 
are different than those in developed countries, there is a common goal to 
provide access to health monitoring and assessment technologies to people 
with limited or no healthcare facilities.  While the developed countries 
may find POC technologies as effective means for reducing healthcare costs 
and improving efficiency, POC technologies are critical in responding to 
essential healthcare needs in countries with large populations or rural 
areas.  The developing countries in the eastern part of the globe 
accounting for more than 2/3rd of the population of the world face the 
basic challenge of providing minimal healthcare to all people living in 
adverse geographical or economic constraints, and also monitoring critical 
diseases and infections such as HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, etc.  The challenge 
becomes even more critical in the situation of potential outbreak of an 
epidemic. The proposed conference will provide an international forum to 
explore POC health monitoring technologies that could play significantly 
important role mode in ?well-being? of a healthy society with increasing 
proportion of elderly people. 

The conference will provide a unique global networking opportunity with 
leading researchers, students medical and industry professionals, and 
policy makers in innovative healthcare technologies. 

http://pocht.embs.org/2013/

Plenary  and Keynote Speakers

Roderic Pettigrew, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Institute of Biomedical 
Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH, USA
Nigel Lovell, Ph.D., Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 
Australia
Balram Bhargava, M.D.,  Professor  AIIMS, Stanford-India Biodesign 
Program, India
Anurag Mairal, Ph.D., Director Global Exchange Stanford-India Biodesign 
Program, USA and Executive VP, Orbees Medical, India
Y.T. Zhang, Ph.D., Professor at CUHK, & Director, Key Lab for Health 
Informatics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (HICAS),China Shuming Nie, 
Ph.D., Distinguished Faculty Chair Professor & Director, Emory-Georgia 
Tech Cancer Nanotechnology Center, USA
May D. Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology 
and Emory University School of Medicine, USA 
Kenji Sunagawa, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine 
at the Kyushu University Hospital, Japan.
Soumyadipta Acharya, M.D., MSE, Ph.D., Director, Bioengineering Innovation 
and Design, John Hopkins University, USA
Semahat Demir, Ph.D., Program Director, Biomedical Engineering Program, 
National Science Foundation, USA
Paolo Bonato, Ph.D., Director Motion Analysis Laboratory, Physical 
Medicine & Rehab Department, Harvard Medical School, USA

Tentative Program:
January 16, 2013: Plenary Presentations; Invited Keynote Talks, and Panel 
Discussion; Opening Ceremony and Banquet
January 17, 2013: Selected Oral Platform Presentations; Poster Sessions 
and Industry Networking Forums.
January 18, 2013: Selected Oral Platform Presentations; Poster Session; 
Interactive Breakout Sessions; and Plenary Panel Discussion Closing 
Ceremony and Banquet

Important Dates:
Website opens for submissions of manuscripts for 4-page papers and poster 
presentations: July 15, 2012
Website closes for manuscript submissions: September 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance: November 1, 2012 (authors of accepted papers 
must register for the conference by Nov 15)
Final submissions: November 15, 2012

Industry exhibits proposals: November 1, 2012

Call For Papers and Conference Website:        http://pocht.embs.org/2013/

Organizing Committees:
Conference Chairs:

Chair: Atam P. Dhawan, Ph.D. 
Distinguished Professor and Interim Dean NJIT, USA
Co-Chair: Manju Mahadevappa, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor, SMST, IIT Kharagpur, India

Program Chairs:

Chair: P K Dutta, Ph.D. ,Professor and Head SMST, IIT Kharagpur, India
Co-Chair: Metin Akay, Ph.D., Chair, Biomedical Engineering, University of 
Houston, USA

International Program Chairs:

Chair: Nitish Thakor Ph.D., Professor Biomedical Engineering, Johns 
Hopkins University, USA
Co-Chair: Gudrun Zahlmann, Manager, Imaging Infrastructure, ROCHE, 
Switzerland

Local Organizing Committee Chair:

Jayanta Mukherjee Ph.D., Professor and Head, Computer Science & 
Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India


Government/Industry Sponsorship and Participation (Invited):

NIBIB, National Institutes of Health, USA
Department of Biotechnology, India
IBM
Siemens, India
Phillips, India
GE Medical Systems, India

Medtronic
TATA TCS
i2i Solutions
FORUS Health
IIT Khargpur, India 
IEEE EMBS KP Student Chapter

Organized and Sponsored By:

IEEE-EMBS
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Piscataway, NJ, USA 
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