EMBC 2014 – Engineering in Medicine and Biology

EMBC 2014, the 36^th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, will be held August 26-30, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois.

The theme of EMBC 2014 is “Discovering, Innovating, and Engineering Future Biomedicine. Diverse topics will be covered ranging from cutting-edge biomedical and healthcare technology research and development, clinical applications, to biomedical education.

The conference program will consist of high-profile keynote lectures, symposia, workshops, invited sessions, oral and poster sessions, and exhibitions. All papers will be peer reviewed; accepted full-length papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings and be indexed by IEEE Xplore and Medline/PubMed.

Highlighted topic areas for EMBC 2014 include:

• Biomedical Signal Processing
• Biomedical Imaging & Image Processing
• Bioinstrumentation, Biosensors, & Bio-Micro/Nano Technologies
• Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Systems Biology, & Modeling Methodologies
• Cardiovascular & Respiratory Systems Engineering
• Neural Engineering & Rehabilitation Engineering
• Tissue Engineering & Biomaterials
• Biomechanics & Biorobotics
• Therapeutic Systems, Devices & Technologies, & Clinical Engineering
• Healthcare Information Systems, & Telemedicine
• Biomedical Engineering Education

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

• Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D., President, Institute for Systems Biology
• Kristi Anseth, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Colorado
• Emery Brown, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Computational Neuroscience & Health Sciences & Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Maryellen Giger, Ph.D., A.N. Pritzker Professor of Radiology, Department of Radiology, University of Chicago
• John Gore, Ph.D., Director, Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University
• Richard Hausmann, Ph.D., President & CEO, Health care Systems Global MR Business, General Electric
• Bin He, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of Minnesota
• Roger Kamm, Ph.D., Cecil & Ida Green Distinguished Professor, Biological & Mechanical Engineering, MIT
• Yongmin Kim, Ph.D., President, Pohang University of Science & Technology, Korea
• Kam Leong, Ph.D., James B. Duke Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
• Stephen Oesterle, M.D., Senior Vice President, Medicine & Technology, Medtronic, Inc.
• Hunter Peckham, Ph.D., Director, Functional Electrical Stimulation Center, Case Western Reserve University

Please visit the conference website for more information and to register for EMBC 2014.