[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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