Call for Nominations: IFMBE and IUPESM Awards
Deadline Extended to August 31, 2002
Due to substantial delays in the production of several journals and magazines, and thus
publishing the Call for Nominations, the opportunity for nominations has been extended
to August 31, 2002.
The IFMBE maintains an awards program to recognize individuals for their contributions
to biomedical engineering. There are currently two awards: the Otto Schmitt Award and
the Vladimir K. Zworykin Award, the latter named after the IFMBE Founder President
Professor V. K. Zworykin. The awards are presented every three years on the occasion
of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. Persons selected
to receive these awards are chosen by the Otto Schmitt Award Committee and the
Zworykin Award Committee.
In addition to its own awards program, IFMBE participates in the IUPESM awards program.
Every three years, IUPESM honours individuals with its Merit Awards which recognises a
medical physicist and a biomedical engineer who have carved distinguished careers in
medical physics and biomedical engineering. IFMBE is, through its Merit Awards
Committee, responsible for the selection of the biomedical engineer to be awarded.
The awardees will receive support to attend the Sydney Congress.
IUPESM Awards of Merit
The IFMBE has established a subcommittee, chaired by Joachim Nagel, whose task is to
select a biomedical engineer for this award. The subcommittee is seeking nominations
from the biomedical engineering community.
The criteria for nominations include: making a significant impact on the science and
practice of biomedical en-gineering, having a major influence on the development of
the profession, and undertaking meritorious activities in a national and/or
international biomedical engineering organisation.
Otto Schmitt Award
The Otto Schmitt Award is given to a biomedical engineer for exceptional contributions
to the advancement of the field of medical and biological engineering. Nominees must
be members of an IFMBE affiliated organization. The awardee will receive travel
funds to attend the World Congress 2003 in Sydney, where the award will be
presented.
The criteria for nominations include innovation, leadership, and seminal
contributions to medical and biological engineering.
Vladimir K. Zworykin Award
The Vladimir K. Zworykin Award is given to a biomedical engineer for outstanding
research contributions in the field of medical and biological engineering. Nominees
must be members of an IFMBE affiliated organiza-tion. The awardee will receive
travel funds to attend the World Congress 2003 in Sydney, where the award will be
presented.
The criteria for nominations include innovation and outstanding research contributions
to medical and biological engineering.
Nomination Procedure
The nomination for all three awards is a two-step process. Initially, the nominator
is asked to submit a single-page write-up (approximately 500 words) with a summary
of the individual's qualifications and addressing the criteria for selection. The
committee will evaluate the short summary and select three or four individuals to be
further considered for each of the awards. The nominators of these individuals will
then be requested to submit a more detailed nomination and a full curriculum vitae
for final evaluation.
The award committees urge nominators to keep all nominations confidential and not to
contact or inform the nominee of the nomination.
To be considered by the award committees, initial nominations must have been received
no later than August 31, 2002.
As the pool of awardees and the process of requesting nominations is the same for the
IUPESM and the IFMBE awards, the Otto Schmitt Award Committee and the Zworykin
Award Committee are organized as subcommit-tees of the IFMBE Merit Awards Committee.
Nominations for all awards should be sent to:
Prof. Dr. Joachim Nagel
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Stuttgart
Seidenstrasse 36
70174 Stuttgart
Germany
Email: jn@bmt.uni-stuttgart.de.
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