 | International Conference on Electrical BioimpedanceApr. 4-8, 2010J. Wayne Reitz Union - University of FloridaGainesville, FL |
Speakers
Professor Jaakko A. Malmivuo
"Principle of Reciprocity Solves the Most Important Problems in Bioimpedance and in General in Bioelectromagnetism."
Jaakko A. Malmivuo received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland, in 1971 and 1976, respectively. From 1974 to 1976 he served as researcher at Stanford University.
In 1976 he was appointed as Associate Professor and in 1987 Professor of Bioelectromagnetism at Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Tampere, Finland. From 1992 to 2008 he was Director of the Ragnar Granit Institute at TUT. He has served as Visiting Professor at Technical University of Berlin (West) (1988), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (1989), Sophia University, Tokyo (1993), and University of Barcelona (2006). He has over 600 scientific publications and he has co-written with R. Plonsey, “Bioelectromagnetism” (Oxford University Press, New York, 1995).
Dr. Malmivuo was President of the Finnish Society for Medical Physics and Medical Engineering in 1987-1990. He is Founder Member and was President of the International Society for Bioelectromagnetism 1995-1999. He is founder of the International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism and was Editor in Chief 1999-2006.
In 2003 he was appointed Fellow, International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, in 2007 Fellow IEEE and in 2008 Honorary Member of the Finnish Society for Medical Physics and Medical Engineering.
Professor Bin He
" Electrical Source and Impedance Imaging of Biological Tissues - Opportunities and Challenges"
Dr. Bin He is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities. He serves as the Director of Center for Neuroengineering, and Director of NIH Training Program on Neuroimaging, at the University of Minnesota.
His major research interests include functional neuroimaging, neural interfacing, cardiac functional imaging, cancer imaging, and bioelectromagnetism. Dr. He has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles in leading international journals, and delivered over 150 plenary, keynote, and invited talks. His lab has contributed significantly to electrophysiological source imaging, multimodal biomedical imaging, and brain computer interface techniques. Dr. He is the editor of books entitled “Modeling and Imaging of Bioelectrical Activity – Principles and Applications” and “Neural Engineering” (Kluwer Academic, 2004 and 2005), and served or serves as an associate/guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, Brain Topography, Methods of Information in Medicine, Critical Review in Biomedical Engineering, and International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism. He is also a member of Editorial Boards of IEEE Spectrum, Journal of Neural Engineering, and Clinical Neurophysiology, among others.
Dr. He was the recipient of NSF CAREER Award, American Heart Association Established Investigator Award, the University of Illinois University Scholar Award where he was on faculty, and Tejima Prize. He is a past president of the International Society of Bioelectromagnetism, a past president of International Society of Functional Source Imaging, and is the 2009-2010 president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). Dr. He is a Fellow of IEEE, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Institute of Physics, and International Society for Functional Source Imaging. He has been listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.
Dr. Nathan W. Levin
"Bioimpedance Applications: a Nephrologist's Point of View"
Professor Nathan Levin, a graduate of the University of the Witwatersand, Johannesburg, South Africa, is currently Professor of Clinical
Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Medical and Research Director of the Renal Research Institute, in New York City. He was previously Clinical Professor at the University of Michigan and Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Dr. Levin was Co-Chairman of the National Kidney Foundation-Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative, where he made important contributions to the development of the K/DOQI Clinical Practice Guidelines. He has written extensively on the methodology, history and impact of the DOQI, as well as the design, statistical issues and clinical outcomes of the HEMO study in which he was a Principal Investigator. He is a Principal Investigator of the NIH sponsored study of Frequent Dialysis.
Dr. Levin has made many contributions to the literature on dialysis and nephrology over the past 30 years and has trained numerous nephrologists in the academic departments he has worked. A Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the College of Physicians of South Africa, Dr. Levin was Vice President of the Board of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation. He serves on the Steering Committee of the International Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study, is a member of the Council of the International Society of Nephrology and a Chairman of its Committee on Hemodialysis. He is Chairman of the Roche Foundation for the Study of Anemia. Dr. Levin is a past President of the Renal Physicians Association.
Dr. John Arnold
"Lung Imaging with Electrical Impedance Tomography: Will it Change Management?"
Dr Arnold is Medical Director of Respiratory Therapy at Children’s Hospital Boston and Associate Professor of Anaesthesia (Pediatrics), Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Arnold's research interests encompass novel modes of ventilation in pediatric respiratory failure, the pathophysiology of acute lung injury, and modes of lung protective ventilation (particularly partial liquid breathing). He has recently helped to develop Electrical Impedance Tomography, to quantify lung volume changes during mechanical ventilation. He receives grant support from Viasys Critical Care and Synthetic Blood International and is the institutional PI for a multicenter trial of Prone Positioning in Pediatric Acute Lung Injury.
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