Nominee information
Vice President/President elect

   Since 1999, I’ve served as the Dean of Research and Development at CYCU.  I am in charge of university development, research promotion, international cooperation and exchange programs and patent licensing & technology transfer.  I also direct a national project, “Funding and Aid for the Mid-term Integral Development and Evaluation of Private Universities in Taiwan,” granted by Ministry of Education (MOE).  Currently, I am responsible for instructing an integral project combining Bioengineering and Biotechnology, and, meanwhile, I also scheme to establish “ Bioscience Technology and Bioengineering Research Center” for CYCU.  These experience and achievements demonstrate my capability and potential in promoting Biomedical Engineering. 
   I received my B.S. in Physics from CYCU in 1966; my M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Yonsei University, Korea, in 1974; my Dr. Eng. in Biomedical Engineering from Tokyo Denki University, Japan, in 2002. I became a full professor in Department of Biomedical Engineering at CYCU in 1981.  In the same year, I devoted to founding the Biomedical Engineering Society of Taiwan.  After that, I kept participating the IFMBE actively, and finally, the Biomedical Engineering Society of Taiwan became one of the members of IFMBE in 1988.  Since then, I have involved a lot of activities of IFMBE, such as National Secretary General Committee and Chairman of Asian Pacific Working Group. 
   I am the member of several professional societies, like IEEE, AAAS, AAMI, BEMS, and World Academy of Biomedical Technologies.  I was the member of World Council for Biomechanics (1990-2002), and the president of Biomedical Engineering Society of Taiwan (1998-2002).  I established the certificate system of Clinical Engineer in Taiwan.  I also corrected the Society’s Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering from Chinese version to English version.  In 2001, I organized the “International Symposium on Biomedical Technology” on June 11^th to 12^th at Taipei Grand Hotel.  The major themes of this symposium are stem cell research and application, transgenic technology, and strategy of biotech industry in Taiwan. 
   I also convened the Asian Pacific Working Group Meeting of IFMBE at Chung Yuan Christian University on Dec. 13, 2001, to discuss how to encourage and improve the collaboration among Societies in Asian Pacific region.  Meanwhile, Dr. Robert Nerem and I held the “2001 International symposium on Biomedical Engineering Education” in Taipei the next day.  The main themes include (1) the role of biomedical engineering in the development of biotech, (2) the integrated strategies of biomedical engineering and biotech, and (3) the future development trends in biomedical engineering education. 
   My main research interests are in the areas of tissue engineering, bionanotechnology, rehabilitation engineering, and biological effects of electromagnetic field and ultrasound.  Since 1998, I work as the principle investigator of the following projects: (1) Induction of bone formation by pulsed electromagnetic field, and appropriate growth factor and biomaterial scaffold, (2) Physical stimulus and Wolf’s law on bone healing in vitro, (3) Novel tissue engineering methodology for bone defect repair, (4) The study of dietary factors on the bone cell activity in vitro osteoblast and osteoclast culture model, and (5) Advanced nanotechnology for monitoring cell and tissue activity - the use of quantum dot for screening and intracellular activity monitoring.
   The total research funding is about 150 million US dollars. I have published more than 180 original papers, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings and abstracts. 
   I’ve been serving as member of the IFMBE Administrative Council, the Conference Committee and the chairman of Asian Pacific Working Group since 1997.

Position Statement 
   IFMBE will be facing serious challenges in the years ahead due to the fast growing of Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, and Biomedical Engineering Education all around the world.
   To be prepared, IFMBE has accomplished a strategic plan in 2001 for the future, defining Biomedical Engineering, identifying as the mission of IFMBE “to encourage, support, represent and unify the world-wide Medical and Biological Engineering community,” the strategy specifies distinct goals such as to function as the leader in representing the international community of medical and biological engineering, to promote the development of the profession and the recognition and awareness by the public, to advance collaboration between national and transnational societies, industry, government and non-governmental organizations, to recommend policies and guidelines in appropriate educational, professional, and ethical areas, and to optimize the organizational structure and communication.  The plan also details implementation strategies for each of these goals.  If elected, I will help the president to adopt and modify the strategic plan as the basis for my agenda, emphasizing improved service to the constituent societies and their individual members worldwide.
   Since IFMBE is the member of ICSU, we should try to improve the communication and collaboration with IOMP as well as to participate the WHO related activities such as the certification of clinical engineering.
   There will be more and more academic activities in the Asian Pacific region in the near future.  I will narrow the gaps between the standing Biomedical Engineering in different regions.  I will work hard and will not be bound by any network or special interest groups.
   Since the foundations and the role of Biomedical Engineering are changing, the new biological knowledge will drive development of new medical technology innovations. The Biomedical Engineering is getting more important for the future of basic research and applications to health and health-care.  The development of appropriate educational curricula to meet the demands of the new industry and the health care system is one of the foremost responsibilities of IFMBE. 

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   Makoto Kikuchi was born in 1946 in Tokyo, Japan. He received his M.Sc. degree in 1971 in Electrical Engineering and his D.Sc. degree in 1974 at Keio University, Japan. Following appointments at the Institute of Medical Engineering of Tokyo Women’s Medical College, he accepted a post at the National Defense Medical College in 1980, at age of 33, the youngest full professor among all the national medical universities and colleges in Japan, where he served as the Professor and Chair of the Medical Engineering department (1980-), and Director of the National Defense Medical College Research Institute (2003-). His teaching and research activities include a broad range of basic biomedical engineering, electromagnetics, bio-optics and laser applications in therapeutic devices, and tissue engineering.
   He has published over 200 papers, book chapters in peer-reviewed publications, and received several awards including, the Kelvin Premium of IEE in 1987, the Medical Instrument Society of Japan Award in 1998, the Magnacum Laube Citation of the American Society of Neuroradiology in 2001, and the Ministry Medal from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan in 1999 “in recognition of many years of service for International Standardization”. His memberships and board positions in academic societies included Vice-president of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, Vice-president of the International Association for Hyperthermic Oncology, President of the Japan Society for Hyperthermic Oncology, and an administrative council member of the Japan Society for Laser Surgery and Medicine. He has been a member of national and international standardization working groups (JISC, ISO, IEC) and chaired the committee to produce the ISO/IEC Guide71-Guidelines for standards developers to address the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities (1998-2001).
   Makoto Kikuchi served as an IFMBE Administrative Council member (1991-1997), Vice-Chair and Chair of the Secretaries Committee (1988-1997), Chair of the New Initiatives Working Group (1997-), member of the Finance Committee (2000-), Nominating Committee (2000-), Division for Health Care Technology Assessment (1991-1997), and the Working Group for Asian-Pacific Activities (1997-). He was also Chair of the IEEE/EMBS in the Tokyo Section (1992-1995), and a Representative of Region 10 (1995-1996). Professor Kikuchi has extensive experience in working with industry partners, and in recognition of his contribution and leadership, he was elected Chair of the Strategy Planning Committee of the METIS (Medical Engineering Technology Industrial Strategy) consortium in Japan and has continued to hold that position since 2001.

Statement for the IFMBE President-elect, 2003 (Professor Makoto Kikuchi) 
   Since the beginning of the new century, interest and growth in medical and biomedical engineering (MBE) has dramatically increased and become interdisciplinary. The common expectation is that MBE will play a major partnership role in medical and life science research as well as healthcare delivery. The IFMBE is strong and vibrant, but does this mean we can continue to act as we have and expect continued success? We must be prepared to offer IFMBE national member societies and transnational organizations the products and services necessary to survive in today’s highly technological world. Like the Bob Dylan song says, “The times they are a changin',” and also the IFMBE, as the worthy international federation that it is, must change to be a leader of the technological revolution in healthcare delivery.
   The key issues that face the IFMBE today and for the next six years are related to technology and globalization. I see three challenges facing the IFMBE: Technology, Culture and Strategy.
   Changes in technology are coming faster and challenging us to maintain our skills and values. During my six years as chair of the New Initiatives Working Group, I have tried to identify new technological areas. A new task force will be needed and charged with the development of procedures to identify target technological areas, as well as the assessment of the cost-benefit impact they will have on the society. Also a task force is critical for the reaffirmation of existing IFMBE goals, the establishment of new goals, and a fresh evaluation of how well our current publications and conferences reflect the member’s demands and help us meet our goals.
   Cultural differences between developed societies and developing societies come into play in the IFMBE. Whether we like it or not, our profession is global, and we all need to learn how to work together better and more efficiently.
   In strategy, the major characteristic of the IFMBE is that fundamentally it consists of a worldwide network of the national societies in MBE field. In this worldwide environment, the officers and administrative council members should reflect upon the regional distribution, the historical rotation, and its overall continuity. I served as the secretary-general for the 1^st Asian Pacific MBE Conference (1990) in Tokyo, and strongly feel the next six years, from 2003 to 2009 will be the emerging period in which the MBE activities will surge in the Asian Pacific region. Under the leadership of the IFMBE president-elect and co-chairman of the New Initiatives Working Group during the last two years, the European societies have very successfully carried out a number of initiative activities. These include: a survey of education and research, the formation of a regional alliance of the member societies, and working towards harmonized MBE education, including the issues of accreditation, certification, continuing education and regulation of professions, and promoting the status of the MBE and thereby creating new jobs in the MBE. The next term we should focus on Asian Pacific activities and follow along hand in hand and build upon past European and American achievements. This will be a new promising way to meet all our challenges.
   The last question is how to include new societies and a new generation when they face even greater demands on their time. The IFMBE has much to offer the members of our professions. We have a long history of accomplishments, and I am convinced that if we stand together, we can handle all of these new challenges together!

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   Depei Liu, male , was born on may 4^th, 1950 in Anhui Province of P.R. China. He is the member of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), now serving as the Vice President of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), President of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) and Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), and President of Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering (CSBE).
   Dr. Liu graduated from Peking Union Medical College in 1986 and got Ph.D. of Molecular Biology. During the period of 1987-1990, he had done postdoctoral research on molecular biology in the University of California, San Francisco. After returning to the motherland, Dr. Liu has been engaged in research on molecular biology at the National Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, especially in the researches on Gene Regulation of Expression and Gene Therapy, including Gene Regulation of Expression in Differentiation and Development, Trasgenic Animals and Disease Models, Gene Transfer and Gene Therapy.
   Thus far, Dr. Liu had more than 100 academic papers published in domestic and international journals, of which 52 papers are published in journals cited by science Citation Index (SCI) and the cited number of his papers exceeds 200. Dr. Liu energetically devotes himself into the wok of Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering (CSBE). Under his leadership, CSBE has made quite progress, promoting the development of subject in this field.
   Due to his prominent work and achievements in scientific research, administrative management, and SCBE, Dr. Liu was awarded several times by the State Council, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health of P.R. China and Beijing Municipal Government.

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Nominee Information
Secretary-General

Proposal of the Program of Activity 
    If elected to the position of the IFMBE Secretary General, my primary program will be to increase the activities and the visibility of the Federation and of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences in general. In order to fully support the needs of the IFMBE Officers and the Administrative Council I intend to organise a modern secretariat, using the possibilities of today’s information and communication technologies. Due to my previous and present engagement for the IFMBE (editor of the IFMBE News, member of several committees: Secretaries, Publication, Journal and of the working group for BME education and accreditation) I have the appropriate experience in the IFMBE business and therefore I believe that I can organise an efficient office support.
  I will use my international, regional and national connections to promote the aims of the Federation. Additionally, I believe that the scientific and professional strength of an organisation is based on intensive exchange of relevant information. The exchange of the information among the council members and committee members shall be organised through the Internet pages of the Federation. I intent to intensify the communication with the secretaries committee and enable publishing of the activities of affiliated societies through the Internet pages and the Federations Newsletters, too. As the editor of the newsletters, I already have introduced a new section on BME education. The matter of education and harmonisation of education programs in our profession is not only currently one of the most important topics of discussion and action, but also a matter of the future of our profession. Therefore, we have to support young scientists in the field of BME with the full power of Federation's relevance and international prestige. In the IFMBE News, I have started a section with regular reports on young scientists’ achievements and awards. In future, I will do my best to ensure the background for the support to young scientists and open to them as much space through Federations publicity sources as possible.
  A lot of Federation's scientific and professional activities are based on projects and ideas of distinguished and experienced members of the BME community. I will support these activities offering a proactive help of the secretariat. I will also continue in building up the impact of Federation's publications, both the Journal and the Proceedings Series started recently with the first volume published in 2001, for the purpose of the IX Mediterranean BME Conference I was chairing.
  Another question I have to answer to the members of the IFMBE is how do I intent to manage all those activities and responsibilities. Since the office of the secretary general of the IFMBE is one of central points in most of Federations activities, I hope that the increased flow of information will enable me to improve the editorial function in the Newsletters. This position will allow me to better co-ordinate the work of those committees I still hold the membership of. 
  The institution in which I work looks favourably at my activities as a possible Federation's secretary general.

I will work on the program to the best of my abilities and, if elected, I am looking forward to your support. 

Zagreb, June 30, 2003

Sincerely, 

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Nominee Information
Treasurer

Brief Resume:
    Dr Krishnan is  the Director of the Biomecial Engineering Research Centre (BMERC) from its inception in 1996 at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, and the Director for B Eng in Bioengineering Program at NTU. He earned his Ph D degree from the University of Rhode Island (USA), having carried out the experimental phase of his research in cardiovascular system at the Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. He was elected to Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi Honor Socieities.  He took the position of an Assistant Professor and the Coordinator of Biomedical Instrumentation Program at the Southern Illinois University. He then moved on to become a Project Manager in Research and Development of medical instrumentation at  Coulter Electronics in Miami and subsequently to be appointed as a Biomedical and Hospital Engineering Management Consultant for a mega-project management company in San Francisco.
    Dr Krishnan is presently serving as the Director of BMERC at NTU, managing a few large–scale research grants. Dr Krishnan is also the Co-Director of the Singapore-University of Washington Alliance in Bioengineering at NTU. Over the past ten years, he has been teaching in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and conducting research in Medical Instrumentation, Image Processing, Medical Robotics and Telemedicine, jointly with doctors at local Hospitals.  He has been active in publications and at presentations at the international conferences. He has also provided consultancy services for a few companies in Singapore. He has been appointed to serve as a member of the National Medical Research Council in Singapore. In addition to having membership in IEEE-EMBS, AAMI, IHF, Dr Krishnan has been actively involved since 1993 in the activities of the Biomedical Engineering Society of Singapore,(an affiliate member Society of IFMBE). In addition, he has also held responsible positions in organizing committees of over ten successful International Conferences. Recently, he chaired a working group for the formulation of a new multidisciplinary undergraduate program in Bioengineering at NTU and has been appointed as its Director.  His engineering and management experience of over twenty years in Biomedical field spanning across academia and the industry both in the US and in Singapore, coupled with his sincere interest, has helped him to serve the Biomedical Engineering field in teaching, research and professional practice.

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Nominee Information
Ordinary Members of the Administrative council

   Ofer Barnea received a B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1980 and a M.Sc. degree in biomedical Engineering in 1983 both from Tel Aviv University. In 1987 he received a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering form Drexel University in Philadelphia. After teaching and doing research ion the area of cardiac assistance for two more years at Drexel University, he joined the department of Biomedical Engineering at Tel Aviv University. Presently, Ofer Barnea is an Associate Professor and Department Chairman at Tel Aviv University. His research interests are analysis and estimation in physiological systems, biomedical signal processing, and medical instrumentation. 
   Ofer Barnea is also active in financially encouraging small innovative biomedical projects through the Tnufa project in the Ministry of industry Trade and Labour and is involved in the Ministry of Education where he develops educational program in Biomedical Engineering for High Schools.- In addition he consults to Biomedical Devices companies mostly at the initial entrepreneurial and development stages. 
   As an ordinary member of the IFMBE Administrative Council I offer to work to increase collaboration between higher education institutes, medical centers and industry with the aim of improving biomedical engineering education and applied scientific research and development. I will make special efforts to promote formation of regional international collaboration between universities in the Middle East.
   I believe that the major role of biomedical engineering today, in addition to basic research, is to develop affordable diagnostic and therapeutic methods and systems that will enable healthcare systems all over the globe to provide decent treatment to large populations. Medical needs are common to all peoples in the world. They may serve as common grounds for development of collaboration between neighboring countries in conflict.  A good biomedical engineer is the basis for medical research and for the development of new affordable systems. To improve BME education it is important to combine experience gained in all higher education institutes with the experience of the industrial sector into a continuous synergistic effort resulting in optimal adapting educational programs. 

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   Born: December 23, 1944 in Bad Gleichenberg/Styria, Austria. Elementary and scientific secondary school Graz (passed with distinction 1962). Military service from October 1963 to June 1964. Study of Experimental Physics (Faculty of Philosophy of the Karl-Franzens University in Graz). 
Graduation: Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. Phil.)1972.
  Career: Research fellow (1973 to 1975) University of Graz, Department of Experimental Physics. April 1, 1975 till now: Clinic for Anesthesia and General Intensive Care, Experimental Department. 1981 staff member, 1989 tenure ship and appointment as "Dozent" with the right to teach in the special filed "Biomedical Engineering" at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Vienna. 
1990 Scientific Board member of the L. Boltzmann Institute of Experimental Anaesthesiology and Research in Intensive Care, Vienna. 1993 professional title Extraordinary University Proffesor.
   Scientific Distinctions: Professor-Dr. Alfred-Pischinger-Award 1979, Award of the Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering 1984, Central European Anesthesia Award 1989, Höchst-Award 1998 of the University of Vienna as one out of the research group leaded by M. Hiesmayr.
Professional Activities: Co-editor of five volumes of the periodical "Beiträge zur Anästhesiologie, Intensiv- und Notfallmedizin", Verlag Maudrich Wien, Co-author of the "Forschungs- und Techologiekonzepts 1992 - Biomedizinische Technik" and BMT Austria 2000" (on behalf of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research), Reviewer: European J. of Anesthesiology, Der Anesthetists, Editorial Board: Biomedizinische Technik, Expert assessor for Austrian Federal Ministries (Traffic, Innovation and Technology, Public Health), Member of several Scientific Associations (OeGP, OGBMT, OeGMP, ESA, DGBMT, IARS), Educational Stays Abroad: USA (1979), Germany (1981), Los Angeles (1983), Groningen 1984, Yale 1985, Salt Lake City 1986, Bonn 1986, Groningen 1988, New York 1991, Budapest 1991 and 1993.
   Present Research Priorities: Gas measurement technologies in anesthesia (Co, NO etc.), online signal recording and processing of electrically evoked potentials, experimental and clinicla investigations in pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of neuromuscular blockades, experimental investigation of the effect of relaxants on intrinsic larynx muscles, thorax mechanics and resuscitation techniques, safety aspects of the anesthesia and intensive care workplace, carbon monoxide and anesthetic agents
Number of publications >50 in peer reviewed journals.

Candidate Statement: Biomedical engineering is a still expanding scientific specialty with increasing research activities in the Life Sciences. Yet it faces challenges from other publicity attracting special disciplines (eg molecular medicine, gene therapy etc). IFMBE – the umbrella organization dedicated to promote research and education in the fields of Biological and Medical Engineering – will continue to provide the necessary platform in order to increase public awareness for our field by ensuring the required information flow at all levels. This requires strong and dedicated efforts. Since I leave the position as the President of the Austrian society for Biomedical Engineering I will be able to devote more time for activities at a transnational level and help within the administrative council to foster IFMBEs mission.

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Qualifications
Graduation: form the Technical University of Budapest, Faculty of electrical Engineering 1975. Candidate of Science (the second top degree that can be obtained form the Hungarian Academy of Sciences by a thesis and examinations): 1994.
Languages: English fluent; German spoken, basic Russian.
Affiliation: 1976 Department of measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Post: Associate professor.
Position: Director of Education (deputy vice-rector) at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1998 -
Research fields: Bioinstrumentation, Marker based motion analysis, Home health monitoring.
More important research contracts lately: related to marker-based motion analysis
COPERNICUS program, joint research with Delft University of Technology, OTKA (Hungarian Scientific research Fund), NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)
Publications: about 60 scientific papers in English, 40 in Hungarian.
Scholarships, scientific activity abroad:
1984 One month, visiting scholar at the University of Karlsruhe.
1991 One year scholarship at Delft University of Technology as a research fellow.
1998-2001 four years, Széchenyi scholarship for Hungarian professors.
Awards:
Kruspér István Prize, 2000.
Outstanding Work, Ministry of Education 1989.
Rector's award, 1994.
Memberships, Functions:
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Members since 1994.
Secretary of the Biomedical Engineering Section of the Hungarian SSMA, since 1994.
Member of IFMBE's National Secretaries' Committee since 1995.
Hungarian member of TC12 (Technical Committee No. 13 on Biomedical Engineering) of IMEKO (International Measurement Confederation) since 1995.
Member of scientific committee of several international biomedical engineering conferences. Organiser of national BME conferences.

Statemen
IFMBE has several tasks to help all those being active in the Biomedical Engineering field. As the Director of Studies at Budapest University of  Technology and Economics (largest technical university in Hungary) I can help in building links to universities and what is even more important, to students.
With good relations to the Central European area I would catalyze the information flow to and from this region.
I have been working on the formation of a Hungarian "umbrella" organization in biomedical engineering. The experiences gained emphasize the importance of involving representatives of the industry into the activities of scientific societies. IFMBE should also involve more representatives of BME industry.

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Brief Biography

   Present and Previous Positions Held: Chief of Biomedical Information Engineering,  Idaho State University, Idaho, USA (current),  Clinical Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Program Director of Biomedical Computing, University of Medicine & Dentistry, NJ, Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, NJ Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, Director of Computational Biology & Vice Chair of Imaging and Visualization Group, University of Medicine & Dentistry, NJ, Director of Clinical Computing, Montefiore Hospital & Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, Director, Healthcare Information Services, NextGen Internet, Princeton, Principal Scientific Officer, Physiology Laboratory, The Free University, Amsterdam & the Thorax Center, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Research Associate, University of Southampton, UK, Honorary Professor, Health Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, China, Visiting Professor, University of BRNO, Czech Republic.
   Selected Professional Society Services:Vice President of the IEEE EMB Society, Elected Member of the EMBS Administrative and Executive Committees, EMBS International Chair, Founding Editor-in-Chief and Editor Emeritus of the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Program Chair and General Conference Chair of EMBS and other IEEE Conferences, Elected to the IEEE Publications Services and Products Board,  IEEE Strategic Planning and Transnational Committees, EMBS Delegate to the ESEM, IEEE Delegate to the General Assembly of the IFMBE, IEEE Delegate to the Public Policy Commission and the Council of Societies of the AIMBE, Fellow of the AIMBE, Senior Member of IEEE, Life Member, Romanian Society of Clinical Engineering and Computing, Life Member, Biomedical Engineering Society of India, US Delegate to IFAC and IMEKO  Councils in TC13, Recipient of the Czech Purkynje Award, the IEEE Millennium Award, and EMBS Service Awards for contributions to BME.
   Candidate Statement: I firmly believe in the globalization of biomedical engineering in which professional societies have a strong role to play. IFMBE’s umbrella structure of national societies including its transnational members, is a model of excellence that provides just that kind of a Forum. As one of the founding members who strived for the IEEE inception into the IFMBE, as a transnational member, I pledge my continued commitment and support to further the goals and enhanced cooperations between the U.S. biomedical engineering community and the IFMBE. In addition to the EMBS members, biomedical engineering has penetrated into the technical activities of several other IEEE societies, like the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Communication Society.  Through my membership on one of the IEEE Boards as well as my active affiliation as a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), I feel poised to make significant contributions to the globalization of the BME discipline.  In my previous activities as the EMBS International Chair, I had the honor to interact closely with a number of other national BME societies in the world. I offer my leadership experiences for continuing to build the international synergies that currently prevail under the IFMBE umbrella.

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Brief Biography
   Kalju Meigas was born in 1951 in Tallinn, Estonia. He graduated in radio-engineering from the Tallinn Polytechnic Institute in 1974 and spent several years working as radio engineer for a company. After joining the Tallinn Technical University he continued with his dissertation and obtained MSc (1993) and PhD (1997) in electrical engineering from the same university. He acted as Associate Professor in Institute of Telecommunication and later in Biomedical Engineering Centre.  Currently he is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Head of Chair at Tallinn Technical University.
   His research activities include new methods in laser diagnostics and laser applications in Biomedical Engineering. He is author or co-author of more than 100 published articles in scientific journals, conference proceedings, book chapters and abstracts.
   He is one of the founders of the Estonian Society for Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics and currently the National Secretary of this Society. He was also the Chairman of Organising Committee of 11-th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering held in Tallinn. For many years he has been an Advisor of the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Republic of Estonia, Member of Commission of Medical Technology in Estonia and Board Member of Estonian Association of Engineers.

Issues for IFMBE

• To support strongly the interests of our member societies;
• To improve the collaboration between medical and biological engineering organisations engaged in health care delivery and in biomedical research and its applications;
• To support the invasion of BME into new fields of life science technologies;
• To promote BME education, particularly with regard to curricular development, inter-institutional co-operation, mobility schemes and integrated programs of study, training, and research.

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Background
   I received my M.Sc. in applied physics and electrical engineering in 1983 and Ph.D. in biomedical engineering in 1989 at the Linköping University of Technology, Sweden. In 1990-1992, I worked at the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Hospital of Linköping with design of systems and software for research in neurophysiology and administration of the clinical work. From August 1992 to August 1997 I worked at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University Hospital of Northern Sweden, Umeå as the manager of the section for research and development. August 1997 I was appointed to director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm. I am also a Certified Clinical Engineer.
   My research work is dealing with biomedical instrumentation, signal analysis and biomechanics, specially urodynamics. I am also lecturer in biomedical engineering and during my years in Umeå I started the clinical engineering education program at the University of Umeå.
   I have been a board member of the Swedish Society for Medical Engineering and Medical Physics since 1989. During the years I have served as Scientific Secretary in 1990-1992, Secretary General in 1992-1994 and President in 1994-1996. I have also taken actively part in organisation of several conferences and meetings.  

Statement
   IFMBE has a very important task to promote research and work in the fields of Biological and Medical Engineering in the whole world. To make this field more known and in some cases more accepted counterpart in co-operation between medical doctors and industry. I think that this mission can be accomplished when we think three activities: information, communication, and co-operation. The Federation must increase information of its mission and possibilities to work for medicine and health care. Information should be increased in all levels, national societies, international organisations, and governmental organisations. In this way we can make the Federation more known and then it is natural to increase also the communication between member organisations, national societies, authorities and industries in different countries. We all know that good communication is a prerequisite for co-operation. With good co-operation, we can certainly get even better financial possibilities to increase the support and co-operation with new member nations.

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Katsuhiko Tsujioka was born in 1947 in Osaka, Japan.

   1. Education
   1972              M.D.                Osaka University, Medical School, Osaka
   1986              Ph.D.               Osaka University, Medical School, Osaka
2. Academic Appointments
     1979                 Assistant Professor                 Osaka University, Medical School
     1981                 Visiting Assistant Professor      Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY
     1983                 Associate Professor                Kawasaki Medical School, Department of ME
     1991 - present   Professor(joint appointment)     Kawasaki Univ. Medical Welfare, Dpt. Medical Informatics
     1995 – present  Professor and Chairman             Kawasaki Medical School, Department of Physiology
     Visiting Professor: Hokkaido University, Keio University, Tokushima University, Ehime University, Okayama University,
                              The Institute of Physical and Chemical Institute(RIKEN) as Visiting Scientist
3. Activity in Academic Society
    1997 – present       Member of Administrative Council of Japanese Society for MBE
    1995 – present       Councilor of Japanese Society of Physiology
    1994 – present       Councilor of Japanese Society of Angiology
    2000                                   Chairman of the 23^rd Annual Scientific Meeting of J S of Biorheology
4. Professional Activities
    Editorial Board: American Journal of Physiology, Japanese Journal of Physiology, Journal of Japanese Society for MBE
5. Area of Research Interest
    Medical and Biological Engineering and Integrative Physiology in Cardiovascular System
6. Publication: more than 100 papers

Candidate Statement
Medical and biological engineering has been expanding its research area and becoming a key to integrate biology, medicine and engineering. IFMBE as an umbrella organization to integrate national societies and international organizations shall promote international coordination and adopt expanding new research area. I would like to and could do this job, as I am a medical doctor and also have enough knowledge on engineering.  In addition, I would like to recruit young students into medical and biological engineering. In Asia-pacific area, medical and biological engineering is in rapidly expanding stage. As a board member of Japanese society for medical and biological engineering, I would like to promote cooperation within Asia-pacific region and through the world.

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   Jan M. Wojcicki, PhD, DSc, Professor, born: 24 June 1946, received his M. Sc. and D.Sc. in the Electrical Faculty of the Warsaw Technical University in 1970 and 1978 respectively. In 1991 he completed habilitation dissertation and received Associate Professor degree on Biomedical Engineering. In 1999 he received Professor degree of the technical sciences. He started to deal with biomedical engineering at the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering (IBBE) in 1978 as a senior scientist, then since 1989 as a head of laboratory , since 1992 as a associated professor and since 1999 as a professor of biomedical engineering. Since 1994 he is working as a deputy Director of the IBBE.
   He was working as a post-doc fellow in the Dept. of the Artificial Organs, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, USA (1981- 1983, 25 months), as a researcher (contract CNRS) in Department Genie Biologique, University de Technology de Compiegne (France) (1991 - 6 months), as a visiting scientist at the Institute of the Diabetes Technologie Ulm, Germany (1993- 2 months), as a visiting professor in the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan (1997, 3 months).
   Since 1998 he is a Governor (member of the Board) in the European Society for Artificial Organs, since 1998 he is appointed as a “Visiting Professor” in the Donau University, Krems, Austria, since 2000 he is an Expert at the European Commission for evaluating research proposals, since 2001 he is a member of the Protem Group. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering Polish Academy of Sciences and reviewer in the following international Journals: Artificial Organs (since 1993), Diabetes Care (since 1996) and Diabetologia (since 2000).
   In 1992 – 2001 he was working as a head of several projects on biomedical engineering granted by Polish Committee of Scientific Research and international companies: Bayer (Germany), Novo-Nordisk (Denmark), Akzo Enka (Germany), Fresenius (Germany) and MiniMed (USA).
   He has published as an author and coauthor 140 publications including chapters, papers and conferences materials. He is an author and coauthor of 14 polish and international patents and 20 expert reports.
   His current research interests concern: artificial internal organs for metabolic support (in particular artificial pancreas and artificial kidney), blood purification processes by membranes techniques, drug delivery systems, technical support for intensive treatments.
   Summing up Professor Wojcicki is engaged about 6 years in activity of the European Society of Artificial Organs as a board member, organizing ESAO Conference in 1996 (chairman of the organizing committee) and starting to prepare scheduled for the next year ESAO Conference in Warsaw. Long lasting relation with ESAO  may be useful for the IFMBE.
   He was member of the ProTem Group, working group for  the European Alliance in the field of biomedical engineering and recently he was elected to be a member of the Interim Executive Board of the new born European Society - EAMBES.
   He is serving as a deputy director for the international scientific cooperation (since 1994) of the 150 employees Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering Polish Academy of Sciences. Recently he was engaged in organization of 3 Seminars of the International Center of Biocybernetics Polish Academy of Sciences devoted to diabetes treatment by engineering methods and he will be cochairman of the 6-th Polish – Japanese seminar scheduled in Nara on October 2003. He spent as a visiting scientist over 2 years in USA, 6 months in France and few months in Germany and Japan. Based on stated above experiences he may be helpful in promoting cooperation in the world-wide biomedical engineering and promote research activities in the field of artificial organs, membranes research, drug delivery systems, biomeasurements and telemedicine.

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Nominee information
Clinical Engineering Division

• Electrical Engineering - Mackenzie University - Brazil (1974)
• MSc and PhD in Biomedical Engineering - University of London - England (1984)
• Chapters in books about Clinical Engineering - 5 chapters
• Author of 1 book about Management on Clinical Engineering
• Editor of one book about Clinical Engineering (management and medical equipment)
• Supervisor of 16 concluded MSc thesis
• Supervisor of 1 concluded PhD thesis
• Coordinator of a Distance Learning Course on management of Health Equipment Maintenance with about 3000 students all around Brazil
• Coordinator of a Clinical engineering Specialization Course (post graduation level) around 250 Clinical Engineers already graduated - from 1992 till now
• Adviser of the Brazilian Ministry of Health on Clinical Engineering subjects
• Adviser of the "Agncia Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitária" - ANVISA (comparable tasks to FDA n the US) on Clinical Engineering subjects
• 14 full papers in International Congresses
• 09 articles published in International Journals
• 07 full papers in Brazilian Congresses
• 11 articles published in Brazilian Journals
• Former advisor for two projects of the United Nations
• Former member of the Program for Medical Equipments in Brazil (PROEQUIPO) that developed the majority of the Clinical Engineering activities in Brazil, including training activities on Clinical Engineering (1990-1995)
• Former President of the Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering

  Candidate statement
  Within a University, working and teaching Clinical Engineering since 1987, I participated in all aspects of its implantation and implementation in Brazil. I could closely feel the problems of bringing Clinical Engineering models from different cultures, mainly developed countries, and set them in developing countries.

  My goal today is to study the different Clinical Engineering models adopted within the developed world, and see how they can be, not implemented, but adapted to developing countries, mainly the Latin American countries. What are the parameters we have to analyze, what are the questions we have to answer before implementing a defined model? I really believe that the IFMBE/Clinical Engineering Division and the work developed with CORAL can provide an excellent field of discussion for such task. A Clinical Engineering means of communication among those countries have also to be set either by a journal or a discussion group using Internet.

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   Guixing Liu, male , was born on Sep. 30, 1962 in Shaanxi Province 0of P.R. China. He is Vice Secretary-General of The Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering (CSBE) Clinical Engineering Division, Permanent Director of the China Medical Equipment Association, now serving as the Director & Associate Professor of the Medical Devices Department of Beijing Hospital, affiliated with the Ministry of Public Health.
   Dr. Liu graduated from the 2^nd Military Medical University of China in 1989 and got Masters Degree of the Social Medicine & Health Administration. He also got the Bachelor Degree of Medicine from the 4^th Military Medical University in 1984. During the period of 1984-1986, he worked as a clinical doctor & Associate Lecture of the Emergency Department in the affiliated Hospital of the 4th Military Medical University in Xian. After postgraduate education, Dr. Liu has been engaged in research on the Hospital Administration at the 4^th Military Medical University. During October 1989-1992, Dr. Liu served as a Staff officer of the Planning & Financial Bureau, Ministry of Health of the National Defense Ministry. During 1992-1994, he worked i the Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS) of China, Director of R&D Department, especially in the researches on new drugs and biological Materials. During 1994-1996, Dr. Liu joined in the Beijing Four Ring Medical & Pharmaceutical Enterprises Group, and in charged for the Technology Trading Department.
   During 1996- Present, Dr. Liu serves as Director of the Medical Device Department of Beijing Hospital. Due to his prominent administrative management, Beijing Hospital has successfully established PACS & HIS system, awarded by the Ministry of Public Health.

Candidate Statement
   Since the beginning of this century, new & high technology devices in MBE field are coming faster and challenging us to maintain our skill and values. A lot of doctors, engineers and managers in the clinical branch felt as if we can’t see the forest for the trees. We are seriously bemused with all these discoveries.
   IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division should be served as a “Bridgy” between MBE producers and users, between clinical doctors, engineers and managers. I am the new comer of IFMBE, and I am convinced that if we stand together and try to improve the communication, collaboration and education, we can handle all of these new challenges!

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Nominee information
Division for Health Care Technology Assessment

Hu, Yimin; b November 5 1941, Anhui; BSc (Solid State Phys), Cert (Accelerator Phys, CT Phys, Phys of 3D Treatment Technique, Radiation Oncology); Chief Physicist, Professor, Ph.D. Supervisor; Serving in Radiation Oncology Dept, cancer Inst, Chinese Academy of Medical Sc, Beijing, 1964-; Secretary-General of CSBME, President of CSMP, President of CARP of CSMP; Standing Board Member & Secretary-General of CSRO of CMA, Member of AAPM, Member of AAAS, IAEA Mission Expert/Lecturer, Managing Director of Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology; Quality in Radiation Oncology Phys, QA (QC) in RT, Conformal RT, X(g)-rays Stereo tactic RT, Radiation Treatment Planning, Radiation Protection, etc.;
Publ_Radiation Oncology Phys (1999), Radiation Oncology Technology (1999), Radiation treatment Planning (1991, 1978), Radiation Phys (1993, 1983, 1978, 1972), and more than 30 scientific papers; Awards_The Prize (3^rd Level) of the Development of Medical Science & Technology, 1990, Public Health of Ministry, The Prize (1^st level) of the Development of Medical Science & Technology, 1990, CAMS, the Prize (2^nd level) of the Development of Science & Technology, 1996, Guangdong Province; Organizing Academic Congress_The 1^st (1990) and the 2^nd (2000) Beijing International Congress on Medical Radiation Physics, The National Workshop of 3D Conformal Radiation Therapy (1998), Beijing, The 1^st-4^th National Congress on Radiation Oncology (1986, 1990, 1994, 1995), China, ISRO'97 Beijing.

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-  1956. born in Zagreb, Croatia. 
-  1979 graduated at  Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), Zagreb.
   Master degree  in field of biomedical electronic finished 1986 at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.
-  Since 1980. I  worked  in Laboratories for research and testing   underwater ultrasound equipment. 
-  Since 1983. I am employed in Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb in Clinical Department of Nuclear Medicine    and radiation Protection. 
-  Since 1995. I organized and Became director of Clinical Engineering Department in Clinical Hospital Center, Zagreb
-  More than 20 mainly scientific papers in biomedical and HTA field. 
-  As scientific co-author I have project of Ministry of science and technology in a filed of biotechnology:
   Quantitative measurements of bio-distribution of radiopharmaceuticals.
- Since 2000. Minister of Health nominated me as chairman of Working Group for Clinical Engineering    and Medical Physics.
-  Since 1995. I was nominated as expert of the International Atomic Energy Agency for nuclear medicine equipments.
-  A member of HDBMT, IFMBE, EANM, HDNM, ISTAHC (HTAi).
-  From 2002.  I was nominating as chairman of World Health Organization Project: Establish a National Center for Health Technology Assessment in Croatia. 
- In November 2002. I organized Workshop for more than 120 policy makers in Croatian Health organization and Ministry of Health: Health
   Technology Assessment in Croatian Health Care System
-  On ISTAHC 2003., Canmore, Canada I have oral presentation: Implementation Health  Technology  Assessment in Croatian Health Care System.
-  Nominated as member of the Local Organization Committee of the International HTA Conference  2004 in Krakow.

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Born in 1948, studied Physics, Biophysics and Medical Physics in Greece, U.K. and Belgium. Presently Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Patras and Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Biomedical Technology (INBIT). For the last 20 years actively engaged in the field of Medical Technology. Director of the European Erasmus postgraduate course on Biomedical Engineering, running on the dept. of Medical Physic, University of Patras since 1989. Author of more than 70 scientific papers and 3 books. Project coordinator of many national and European R&D projects such as: BEAM I and II (Biomedical Equipment Assessment and Management) in the Health Care Telematics program of the CEU and the EUROMEDIES (European Medical Device Information Exchange System) and AIM Concerted Action, addressing medical devices vigilance in Europe. Elected president of the Board of the Clinical Engineering Division (CED) of the IFMBE (94-96). Greek delegate for the Medical Device Standing Committee (MDEG) of DG Enterprise of the CEU and member of the Health Care Forum of CEN (CHeF).

Candidate Statement

• To promote the domain of Health Care Technology Assessment in relation with the needs imposed by the European legislation on medical devices.
• To improve the collaboration and the coordinated activities between the clinical engineering and health care technology assessment divisions
• To support research and development of emerging biomedical engineering fields.

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   Dr. Cheng-Yi Wang was former president of the Society (1993-1996). He is the founding professor and chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National Taiwan University Hospital (1987-1997 and Aug 2000-July 2002), and the Center for Biomedical Engineering (later changed to Graduate Institute of Medical Engineering) of the College of Medicine, National Taiwan University (1991-1996). He organized 4 international symposia of Biomedical Engineering in the 21^st Century in 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1996. He has engaged in the education and research of biomedical engineering and promoted the concept of technology assessment and risk management of instrumental events for more than 15 years. He was also coordinator of biomedical engineering program in the university, and it was the first multidiscipline program for the postgraduate students in the university.
   Professor Wang was one of the first and leading professors in doing technology assessment of new advance clinical instruments and new technology in the hospital, when he was the chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Hospital.
   Professor Wang organize major core courses in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering including Human Structure and Life Phenomena, Introduction to Medical Engineering, Clinical Engineering and Medical Ethics.
   Professor Wang was once president of Digestive Endoscopy Society of Taiwan (1996-2002) when he was enforcing cleaning and disinfecting procedure of endoscopic devices in the hospitals. He introduced quality assurance and set several major parameters to assess quality of digestive endoscopy. He was now also one of core members in the hospital accreditation. He is also author of may books: The principle of Biomedical Engineering, Medical Ethics, Port A, Outline for Clinical Engineering, Colonoscopy, Endoscopy Room, Advance in Medical Instruments and Digestive Diseases Q & A.

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