Presentation of the Administrative Council
Immediate Past-President: Department of Medical Engineering and Systems Cardiology, Kawasaki Medical School 577, Matsushima, Kurashiki Okayama, 701-0192 Japan. Tel: +81-86-462-1111 ext.3750 or 6305; Fax: +81-86-463-2975 E-mail: kajiya@me.kawasaki-m.ac.jp BiographyDr. Kajiya completed his doctor of medicine studies at Osaka University, Medical School, Osaka and received his M.D. degree in 1966. In 1977 he obtained his PhD at Osaka University, Faculty of Engineering (Electronics Engineering). He started his academic career as a research associate at Osaka University, Medical School and Faculty of Engineering 1967. From 1977 onwards he has held a chair as Professor at Kawasaki Medical School, Department of Medical Engineering. In 1987 he was appointed chairman of Kawasaki College of Allied Health. He has also served as a visiting Professor at Okayama University, Co-operative Research Centre in 1990-1993. Since 1990 he has been an international adviser at the Centre for Biological and Medical Systems, Imperial College, London University. From 1993 onwards he was a professional adviser at Okayama University, Co-operative Research Centre and from 1996 onwards Professor-at-large at Hokkaido University, School of Medicine. Professor Kajiya is the Immediate-Past-President of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) and he is currently Vice-President of IUPESM until 2000. He has also served as Vice President of the Japanese Society of Medical Electronics and Biological Engineering in 1994-1996. He is a Fellow at the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering since 1996 and has also received a number of awards for his research. Among these are the Berz Prize in 1968 and 1973 (co-recipient), Sakamoto Prize in 1990 (co-recipient) and the Sanyo Press Prize in 1997. He has also organised and chaired a number of international and national conferences during his career. Among these he lists the 8th International Conference of Cardiovascular System Dynamics Society, 1987, Osaka, Japan and 1st and 2nd Okayama International Medical Engineering Forum, 1994 and 1997, Okayama, Japan. This year he is the chair the 37th Conference the Japan Society of Medical Electronics & Biological Engineering, May 1998, Okayama, Japan. His research interests include BME in the cardiovascular system. Issues for IFMBE:"Looking back, the history of biomedical engineering (BME), electronics was the main interest among biomedical engineers around the time of foundation of the IFMBE. During the last four decades, remarkable progresses were made, particularly in imaging technology, optoelectronics, microelectronics, materials, molecular biology and information science. With great contributions of these fields, the spectrum of BME has been widened. In this circumstance, it is the task of the IFMBE to show the concept of BME by unifying these subdivided fields into a clear definition and to let the members recognise the responsibility of IFMBE in global promotion of BME. I think the concept of BME covers not only "health and welfare" but also "coexistence with nature." Here, the IFMBE has to take the initiative in establishing a database for BME. For example, we should recognise the value of the Internet and our homepage should be not only a billboard for future events but also a platform for up-to-date research results, as well as a communication room among BME researchers." Member of the Administrative Council: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung Li, Taiwan 320 Tel. +886-3-4563171 ext 4503; fax.+886-3-4568247 E-mail: alumni@mbox.cycu.edu.tw BiographyProf. Walter H. Chang is a Full Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University (CYCU), Taiwan. He received a BS in Physics in 1966 from CYCU and a MS in Electrical Engineering in 1974 from Yonsei University, Korea. He obtained his PhD from Tokyo Denki University, Japan. He served as the Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Dean of General Affairs, and the Director of Library at CYCU from 1978 to 1995. He is currently Director at the Alumni & Placement Office at CYCU. He served as a Secretary General of National Youth Commission of ROC in Taiwan (1995-1996). From 1980 to 1989 he served as the Secretary General and Standing Director of Biomedical Engineering Society, Chinese Taipei. In 1990 he was a Visiting Professor of Bioengineering Center at University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He is currently the Chairman of Working Group on Asian-Pacific Activities of IFMBE, Standing Director of Biomedical Engineering Society, Chinese Taipei, the member of World Council for Biomechanics, New York Academy of Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Bioelectromagnetics Society, and IEEE/EMBS Society etc. He was a Marquis Who's Who in the World 1996. He is currently serving as a consultant at the Division of Life Science and Division of Engineering Technology, The National Science Council of ROC in Taiwan. His main research interests are Orthopaedic Biomechanics, Rehabilitation Engineering, and Medical Instrumentation. Issues for IFMBE:Biomedical engineering is one of the fast developing fields that has crossed national boundaries. Although the research activities of MBE in the Asian-Pacific area starts later, it should have large potential to develop due to the enviable economic growth in recent decades. On of the challenges faced by the Administrative Council is to fully integrate the membership activities by promoting the cross-fertilisation of MBE problems and solutions across disciplines and geographic boundaries. To this end, I will direct my energies as an Administrative Council member towards paying more attention to the co-operation of MBE in Asian-Pacific area and uniting the investigators in each country. Member of the Administrative Council Division Director National Science Foundation Bioengineering & Environmental Systems, 4201 Wilson Blvd, Room 565 Arlington, VA, USA 22230 Fax: +1-703-306-0312 E-mail: j.fouke@ieee.org Biography:Janie Fouke, Division Director of Bioengineering and Environmental Systems, completed a liberal arts degree in Biology at Saint Andrews College and taught science in the public schools for several years before completing graduate degrees in Biomedical Mathematics and Engineering at the University of North Carolina. She is currently on leave to the National Science Foundation from Case Western Reserve University where she has been on the Faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering since 1981. Her research interests are in respiratory mechanics and instrumentation for the evaluation of the lungs. She has published roughly 50 peer reviewed manuscripts, another 50 conference papers, and a dozen book chapters, editorials and proprietary reports. Instrumentation that she has built has been critical to the understanding of the aetiology of airway diseases such as asthma and pulmonary effects of insults such as environmental pollutants. A Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a Senior Member of the Biomedical Engineering Society as well as the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, she has recently served her second term as President of the IEEE/Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the largest professional society of Bioengineers in the world. Member of the Administrative Council Professor Dr. rer.nat. Joachim Nagel Institut für Biomedizinische Technik, Universität Stuttgart, Seidenstrasse 36, D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany. Tel. +49-711 121 2370; fax.+49-711 121 2371 E-mail: jn@bmt.uni-stuttgart.de Biography:Joachim Nagel is Professor (Chair) of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart since 1996. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Miami, Florida. Prof. Nagel received his MS degree in Physics & Electronics at the University of Saarbrücken, and his DSc (1979) at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Following appointments in industry and as an Akademischer Rat at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, he joined the University of Miami in 1986, where he served as Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, and Behavioural Medicine, director of the medical imaging & instrumentation laboratory, and Director of Engineering at the Behavioural Medicine Research Center. Prof. Nagel has published more than 150 scientific papers, books and patents. His current and past memberships on editorial boards include those of the journals: Annals of Biomedical Engineering (BMES), Physiological Measurement (IOP) and Biomedical Engineering. Prof. Nagel has been a consultant to NIH, NHLBI, and numerous medical device manufacturers. Issues for IFMBE:Prof. Nagel thinks that the most important issue for the IFMBE at this time is to augment public awareness about the importance of biomedical engineering for the development of healthcare, as well as for cost reduction of healthcare delivery and to promote biomedical engineering as an independent discipline within the medical sciences. In order to achieve these goals, the Administrative Council should boost the necessary publicity, co-sponsor medical conferences, and encourage stronger emphasis on life sciences within academic BME programs. Member of the Administrative Council Department Medical Physics, AMC P.O. Box 22660, 1100 DD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel. +31-20-566202; fax +31-20-6917233 E-mail: J.A.Spaan@amc.uva.nl Biography:Jos Spaan was born in 1945 in Breda the Netherlands. He studied Engineering Physics at the University of Technology Eindhoven. His master thesis (1970) was directed to problems related with the artificial oxygenation of blood in membrane oxygenators. His PhD is also from the University of Technology Eindhoven (1976). His thesis work was on oxygen transport in haemoglobin solutions. Whilestudying for his PhD he also started the Eindhoven program on Artificial Heart Valves. In 1976 he was appointed senior researcher at the department of Physiology and Physiological Physics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Leiden. While continuing his position at Leiden he was appointed part time Professor of Physiological Physics at the University of Technology Delft in the dept. of Measurement and Control in the faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 1983. In 1987 he was appointed full time Professor of Medical Physics in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam. His department is part of the Academic Medical Center (AMC) of the University of Amsterdam. He continued his part time professorship in Delft until 1995. From 1976 onwards his main research interest was directed towards the coronary circulation. He and his group developed new concepts and theoretical models for the effect of heart contraction on coronary blood flow and interstitial water balance as well as the control of coronary blood flow. These models were developed in close interaction with animal experiments. Because of the recent developments in technology of the measurement of coronary blood flow in man he is now involved in clinical studies as well. Besides papers in leading Physiological and Biomedical Engineering journals he has written a monograph and edited several books. Within the IFMBE he has been chairman of the Publications Committee (1988-1991) and Secretary-General (1991-1997). While he was chairman of the publications committee, two monographs were published by different editors as well as the booklet "On the real Axis" by Dewhurst. As Secretary-General he runs the IFMBE office and initiated the IFMBE worldwide web page on the Internet. Between 1994 - 97 he was also Secretary General of the IUPESM. Member of the Administrative Council Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. Biography:Yang Zi Bin is a medical doctor and Professor and Chairman, Division of Artificial Organ Research, Peking Union Medical College, and he is Secretary General of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering. He also is President of the Beijing Society of Artificial Organs. He graduated from Norman Bethune Medical University in 1952 and graduated from the Radioelectronics Department of Beijing College of Telecommunications in 1961. From 1981 to 1992 he took up advanced studies at the Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Texas Heart Institute, USA. From 1953-1977 he worked at Peking Union Hospital (President, Doctor and chief). Since1978 he has been working in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Peking Union Medical College (Associate Professor, Professor & Chairman of Dept. of BME). Professor Yang has engaged in the teaching of artificial organs and biomaterials for medical students and research programs of cardiovascular disease for many years. He has published more than 50 papers, has obtained national patents for three items of work, and won several awards for his achievements in scientific research. Dr. Yang has been a member of the National Secretary Committee of IFMBE since 1988 and also a member of the IFMBE Working Group on Asia-Pacific Activities since 1990. In 1991 he was elected chairman of the expert committee for appraisal of new medical instruments under the State Bureau of Pharmaceuticals. In 1993, he was elected as President of the Second IFMBE Far-Eastern Conference on Medical and Biomedical Engineering. | ||