Call for Nominations - IFMBE and IUPESM Awards
The IFMBE maintains an awards program to recognize individuals for their contributions to Biomedi-cal Engineering. There are currently two awards: the Otto Schmitt Award and the Vladimir K. Zwory-kin Award, 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 Biomedi-cal Engineering. The awardees are selected 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 recognise a Medical Physicist and a Biomedical Engineer who have established distinguished careers in Medical Physics and Bio-medical Engineering, respectively. IFMBE is, through its Merit Awards Committee, responsible for the selection of the Biomedical Engineer to be awarded.
IUPESM Awards of Merit
Two Awards of Merit will be conferred at the Sydney 2003 World Congress by the International Un-ion of Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine (IUPESM). These prestigious awards will rec-ognise a biomedical engineer and a medical physicist who have demonstrated a distinguished career in biomedical engineering and medical physics, respectively. The awardees will receive support to attend the Sydney Congress.
The IFMBE has established a subcommittee, chaired by Joachim Nagel, the task of which is to select a biomedical engineer for this award. The subcommittee is seeking nominations from the biomedical engineering community.
The criteria for nominations include: a significant impact on the science and practice of biomedical engineering, major influence on the development of the profession, and meritorious activities in a na-tional and/or international biomedical engineering organisation.
Otto Schmitt Award
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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.
Please, visit the November 2000 issue of the IFMBE News for more information on the
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To learn more on Otto Schmitt, please visit the following Internet sites:
http://www.thebakken.org/research/Schmitt/Otto-intro.htm
http://www.ottoschmitt.org/
Vladimir K. Zworykin Award
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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 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 and outstanding research contributions to medical and biological engineering. Please, visit the May 19980 issue of the IFMBE News for more information on Dr. Zworykin: http://ifmbe-news.iee.org/ifmbe-news/may1998/history.html |
Additional information on Dr. Zworykin's research and achievements can be found at:
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsR-Z/zworykin.html
Nomination Procedure
The nomination for all three awards consists of 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 qualifi-cations 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 in-form the nominee of the nomination.
To be considered by the award committees, initial nominations must have been received no later than May 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 or-ganized as subcommittees of the IFMBE Merit Awards Committee. Nominations for all awards should be sent to:
Prof. Dr. Joachim H. Nagel
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Stuttgart
Seidenstrasse 36
70174 Stuttgart
Germany
Email: jn@bmt.uni-stuttgart.de.
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