San Diego, CA USA
September 01, 2012, 05:45 AM PDT

The 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society will take place at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel in San Diego, California, USA. The general theme of EMBC'12 is "Engineering Innovation in Global Health", covering a broad spectrum of topics in biomedical engineering and healthcare technologies, including medical and clinical applications.

 

Day

Time (PDT)

Event Type

Wednesday, 29Aug12

William 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

Savio Woo, 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

11:00am-12:30pm

 

 

 

4:45pm-5:45pm

IEEE EMBS Awards & Plenary Keynote

 

 

 

Theme Keynote

Thursday, 30Aug12

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

11:00am-12:00pm

Plenary Keynote

Friday, 31Aug12

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

11:00am-12:00pm

Plenary Keynote

Saturday, 01Sep12

Shu Chien, Ph.D, M.D., Y.C. Fung Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine, & Director, Institute of Engineering in Medicine, UC San Diego

 

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

9:45am-10:45am

Special Keynote

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