34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Keynote Speakers

Plenary Keynote Speakers

William R. Brody, Ph.D., M.D.

President of the Salk Institute

Title of Keynote Lecture:
Uncommon Sense or Common Non-sense: Great ideas that would never work

When: Wednesday, August 29, 11:30 - 12:30
Where: Sapphire Ballroom

Eric J. Topol, M.D.

Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, and Vice-Chairman of the West Wireless Health Institute

Title of Keynote Lecture:
Digitizing Human Beings: A New Medicine

When: Thursday, August 30, 11:00 - 12:00
Where: Sapphire Ballroom

Rebecca Bergman

Vice President, Research & Technology, Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management,
Medtronic, Inc.

Title of Keynote Lecture:
Emerging Medical Device Technologies: Creating Better Healthcare Solutions for Chronic Disease Management

When: Friday, August 31, 11:05 - 12:00
Where: Sapphire Ballroom


Special Keynote Speaker

Shu Chien, M.D., Ph.D.

Y.C. Fung Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine, & Director, Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California San Diego

Title of Keynote Lecture:
Role of Fluid Mechanics and MicroRNA in Endothelial Regulation

When: Saturday, September 1, 9:45 - 10:45
Where: Sapphire Ballroom


Theme Keynote Speakers

James B. Bassingthwaighte, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Bioengineering and Radiology, University of Washington

Title of Keynote Lecture:
Reproducibility in Modeling: Technology for the Stepping Stones of Science

When: Wednesday, August 29, 15:30 - 16:30
Where: Sapphire Ballroom

Hamid Ghandehari, Ph.D.

Professor of Bioengineering and Pharmaceutics, Director, Utah Center for Nanomedicine, Co-Director, Nano Institute of Utah, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Title of Keynote Lecture:
Advanced Drug Delivery for the 21st Century: Opportunities and Challenges

When: Wednesday, August 29, 8:15 - 9:15
Where: Sapphire Ballroom

Erik Meijering, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Bioimage Analysis, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Title of Keynote Lecture:
Cellular and Molecular Image Analysis

When: Thursday, August 30, 15:30 - 16:30
Where: Sapphire Ballroom

Misha Pavel, Ph.D.

Program Director, National Science Foundation

Title of Keynote Lecture:
Transforming Health Care with Biomedical Engineering: Model-Based Approaches

When: Thursday, August 30, 16:45 - 17:45
Where: Sapphire Ballroom

Richard Roa, D.Sc.

Senior Project Manager, Philips Healthcare

Title of Keynote Lecture:
Current Trends in Mechanical Ventilation

When: Friday, August 31, 8:15 - 9:15
Where: Sapphire Ballroom

John A. Rogers, Ph.D.

Lee J. Flory-Founder Chair in Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title of Keynote Lecture:
Materials, Mechanics and Manufacturing for Bio-Integrated Electronics

When: Thursday, August 30, 8:15 - 9:15
Where: Sapphire Ballroom

Krishna V. Shenoy, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering and Neurobiology, Stanford University

Title of Keynote Lecture:
Toward High-Performance Clinically Viable Brain-Machine Interfaces

When: Friday, August 31, 15:30 - 16:30
Where: Sapphire Ballroom

Shankar Subramaniam, Ph.D.

Professor and Joan & Irwin Jacobs Chair of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego

Title of Keynote Lecture:
Engineering: the sine qua non for Systems Biology and Medicine

When: Friday, August 31, 16:45 - 17:45
Where: Sapphire Ballroom

Savio L-Y. Woo, Ph.D., D.Sc.(Hon), D.Eng.(Hon)

Distinguished University Professor and Director, Musculoskeletal Research Center, Department of Bioengineering, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

Title of Keynote Lecture:
Bioengineering: The Bridge between Biology and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine

When: Wednesday, August 29, 16:45 - 17:45
Where: Sapphire Ballroom