Invitation to BIOMEDEA Conference
Eindhoven, the Netherlands
December 17-19, 2004
Joachim Nagel, as the chairman of the EAMBES Academic Division, has, together with Dick Slaaf and Jan
Wojcicki, initiated the BIOMEDEA project, which is dedicated to harmonization of BME education in Europe.
The BIOMEDEA conference in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, is dedicated to education and training in
Biomedial Engineering and Sciences and is part of the BIOMEDEA project, which is dedicated to harmonization of BME
ducation in Europe. The conference is also a European preparation to the second Whitaker Biomedical Engineering
Education summit [http://www.whitaker.org/academic/agenda.html].
The purpose of that meeting is to help univerities design and modify biomedical engineering programs to meet
future needs.
This BIOMEDEA meeting is the first of three meetings. The other meetings will be held in Warsaw, Poland,
April 15-17, 2005 [MBES Accreditation], and Stuttgart, Germany, June 24-25 [MBES Certification, Registration
nd Continuing Education].
The BIOMEDEA meeting is co-sponsored by the IFMBE and the TU Eindhoven, which is also hosting the
meeting while EAMBES endorsed the meeting.
Participation: representatives of Biomedical Engineering programs of European countries, decision makers
at a national level interested in Biomedical engineering education and BME students.
I have the pleasure to extend to your organization an invitation to send a delegate(-s) to our Conference.
Atached you will find a provisional program and information on how to register for the Conference.
The meeting of EAMBES Council will be held preceding the BIOMEDEA meeting in the afternoon of
December 16, 2004.
For additional details and information, registration and hotel reservation visit the website of the meeting
(http://www.bmt.tue.nl/biomedea). To facilitate the
organization of the conference, you are requested to inform the onference bureau of TU/e
[congress-office@tue.nl] about possible participation before November 15.
Deadline for arly registration: December 6, 2004.
On behalf of the organizers,
Dick W Slaaf
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