EMBC 2008 - Technical Program

Technical Program

[ PROGRAM THEMES : KEYNOTE SPEAKER : PLENARY SPEAKERS : WORKSHOPS and SYMPOSIA ]
Program Themes

01. Biomedical Signal Processing
Chair: Ki Chon (State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA) Co-Chair: David Westwick (University of Calgary, AB, Canada) Co-Chair: Anne Humeau (groupe esaip and University of Angers, Angers, France)
02. Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing
Chair: Xiaochuan Pan (University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA) Co-Chair: Bin He (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA)
03. Bioinstrumentation; Sensors; Micro, Nano and Wearable Technologies
Chair: Paolo Bonato (Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA, USA) Co-Chair: Toshiyo Tamura (Chiba University, Chiba, Japan) Co-Chair: Danilo De Rossi (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
04. Bioinformatics and Computation Biology; Systems Biology; Modeling Methodologies
Chair: David Fenstermacher (H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA) Co-Chair: Jie Liang (University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA) Co-Chair: Warren Kibbe (Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA)
05. Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems Engineering
Chair: Sergio Cerutti (Polytechnic of Milan, Italy) Co-Chair: John W. Clark, Jr. (Rice University, Houston, TX, USA)
06. Neural Engineering; Neuromuscular Systems; Rehabilitation Engineering
Chair: Robert Butera (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA) Co-Chair: Jose Carmena (University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA) Co-Chair: Dominique Durand (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA) Chair: Robert Kearney (McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada) Co-Chair: Eric Perreault (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA) Co-Chair: Richard Jones (University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand)
07. Molecular and Cellular Biomechanics; Tissue Engineering; Biomaterials
Chair: Bradley Layton (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
08. Bio-robotics; Surgical Planning and Orthopedic Biomechanics
Chair: Paolo Dario (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy) Co-Chair: Jacob Rosen (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) Co-Chair: Jim Patton (University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA)
09. Therapeutic and Diagnostic Systems, Devices and Technologies; Clinical Engineering
Chair: John A. Pearce (University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA) Co-Chair: Dieter Haemmerich (Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA)
10. Healthcare Information Systems; Telemedicine
Chair: J. Mark Ansermino (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada) Co-Chair: Elliot Sloane (Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA)
11. Technology Commercialization; Education, Industry and Society
Chair: Robert L. Galloway (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA) Co-Chair: Aaron Fenster (Robarts Research Institute, London, ON, Canada)
Keynote Speaker Partnered by the University of Washington, Department of Bioengineering

Thursday, August 21, 8:00-8:50 am

Leroy Hood, (Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA)
Title: Systems Biology and Systems Medicine: From reactive to predictive, personalized, preventive and participatory (P4) medicine
Plenary Speakers

Thursday, August 21, 1:00-1:50 pm

Tom Hudson (President and Scientific Director, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada)
Title: Genetic Variation and Cancer
Friday, August 22, 8:00-8:50 am

Kathie Olsen, (National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, USA)
Title: Neurotech at the Interface: Connecting the Engineering and Physical Sciences with Life Sciences
Friday, August 22, 1:00-1:50 pm

Leon Glass, (Isadore Rosenfeld Chair in Cardiology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada)
Title: Understanding and Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death
Saturday, August 23, 8:00-8:50 pm

Sean Hill, (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Title:The Blue Brain Project
Sunday, August 24, 8:00-8:50 pm

Ted Berger, (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Title: Biomimetic Micro-Electronic Systems as Neural Prostheses: Restoration of Lost Memory Function and Enhancement of Normal Memory Function with Implantable Spatio-Temporal Models of Hippocampal Input-Output Activity
Workshops and Symposia

Plenary Roundtable:
Saturday, August 23, 1:00-1:50 pm "Medical Device Development: An Industry-Academia Joint Venture" Organized and chaired by: Dr. Dorin Panescu (St. Jude Medical, Sunnyvale, CA, USA)

EMBC-LEOS Joint Symposium
Thursday, August 21 Friday, August 22 "Advanced Biophotonic Diagnostics and Therapeutics" [Proposal] Co-Chair (EMBS): Xingde Li, Ph.D. (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) Co-Chair (LEOS): Ilko Ilev, Ph.D. (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA)
Preconference Workshops (Wednesday, August 20, 2008)
"Biomedical Information Network" [Abstract] 9:00 - 17:00 Fee: $150 Organized by: Paul Frisch "Platform Oriented Approaches to Biomedical Application Development for In-lab and In-home Deployments" [Abstract] 9:00 - 17:00 Fee: $150 Organized by: Aaron Quigley "Revolutionary Neuroprosthetic Systems" [Abstract] 9:00 - 17:00 Fee: $150 Organized by: Sylvestro Micera, Nitish Thakor "Bionanotechnology and Biomicrotechnology for Healthcare" [Abstract] 9:00 - 17:00 Fee: $150 Organized by: Carmelina Ruggiero "A Tutorial on Innovations in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment" [Abstract] 9:00 - 13:00 Fee: $75 Organized by: Robert Rohling "Non-stationary Biomedical Data Processing: Theory, Tools, and Applications" [Abstract] 9:00 - 13:00 Fee: $75 Organized by: Sridhar Krishnan
Postconference Workshops (Sunday, August 24, 2008) Marriott Pinnacle Hotel
"Technology in Rehabilitation" (CME Course) 9:30 - 15:00 Fee: $150 Organized by: Paolo Bonato
Check back for more information on preconference workshops and minisymposia.