MEDICON 2007 SLOVENIA

From the Slovenian Proposal to host MEDICON 2007

In Slovenia biomedical engineering has a long-standing tradition. We first became affiliated to the IFMBE as a part of Yugoslav Society for medical and biological engineering. In 1986 we established Slovenian society and became affiliated to the IFMBE for the second time in 1993.

Slovenian Society has a stable membership of approximately one hundred members (Slovenia has two millions of inhabitants). We have published our Newsletter since 1986. The Newsletter covers various topics interesting to our members. It features regular sections like Clinical Engineering, Students Corner, New Projects and Product News, Reports from Meetings and Conferences, Laboratories Presentation. In addition it brings also abstracts of Diploma, Master and Doctoral Thesis from this area, and Calendar of Events and In Case You Missed it... sections.

Our future emphasized activities are Clinical Engineering development and promotion, recruitment of new (young) members, and international cooperation and visibility. At the same time our present activities remain important and viable.