Belgian Society for Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

BSMBEC
National Committee for Biomedical Engineering

Activities Report 2001, Planning 2002

During the year 2001, the Belgian Society BSMBEC and the National Committee for Biomedical Engineering had following activities:

• Meeting at the Royal Academy on March 8th 2001
• Three day course on "Computational Biomechanics" organised together with the National Comittee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
• Meeting of the National Committee at the Royal Academy on June 5th 2001
• Meeting of the National Committee at the Royal Academy on September 20th 2001
• Organisation of 2 symposia on "Betere chirurgie dankzij robotica en navigatiesystemen" (9 November KULeuven) en "Tissue engineering: state of the art" (4th December Universiteit Gent) in collaboration with TI-Kviv Genootschap Biomedische Techniek en Gezondheidszorg.
• National Day on Biomedical Engineering at the Royal Academy on October 19th 2001.
• A database was updated, on interested contact persons
• A website concerning Biomedical Engineering, the National Committee and BSMBEC was established
• International relations were kept with IUPESM and IFMBE on the world-level
• Contacts with ESEM were upheld on the european level

In 2002, following activities are planned:

• Cycle "New Trends in Medical Technology" with "PACS: medical image networks in hospital environments, to be held on Mach 26th 2002 at 19.00h in Ghent
• Evening symposium on "Bioinformatics" on Thursday October 3rd 2002 in Brussels
• Second National Day on Biomedical Engineering, in the Royal Academy, Brussels on Friday October 18th 2002
• Three day course on medical signal- and image analysis and processing during the fall of 2002

Please also bookmark our website at: www.biomengineering.org

Prof. M. Nyssen, Secretary general BSMBEC and NCBME