Presenting the Officers and Members of the IFMBE Administrative Council 2000-2003

This is the first part presenting the Members and Officers of the IFMBE Administrative Council after the elections that took place at the General Assembly in Chicago in connection with the world congress. A profile of the new President, Dr Dov Jaron, appears in the President's Column in this newsletter, as does Secretary-General Heikki Teriö's report from his first three years.

Vice-President (President Elect) Joachim H. Nagel

Dr. Nagel is Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chairman of the Biomedical Engineering Program, and Director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering and a Voluntary Professor of Radiology at the University of Miami, Florida, USA.   

He received his DSc in Biomedical Engineering Physics from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany in 1979. Following appointments in industry and at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, he joined the University of Miami, Florida, USA, in 1986, where he served as a Professor of Biomedical Engineering (1986-96), Radiology (1990-96), and Psychophysiology (1988-96), Director of the Medical Imaging & Instrumentation Lab (1986-1996), and Director of Biomedical Engineering at the Behavioral Medicine Research Center (1986-1996). In 1996, he accepted his current position at the University of Stuttgart.   

His main research interests are in the areas of cardiovascular monitoring, instrumentation and physiology, medical image acquisition and image processing, physiological signals, and biological effects of ultrasound. He has published more than 170 scientific papers, books, book chapters, patents, and abstracts, and he has been an editor for the journals Annals of Biomedical Engineering (BMES) and Physiological Measurement (IOP).   

Joachim Nagel has served on the IEEE/EMBS Administrative Committee as a European and as a US representative, he was a member of the IEEE Engineering Research & Development Committee (Technology Policy Council), International Program Chair of the '89, '90 and '92 EMBS Conferences, and General Conference Chair in 1991. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP) and a member of the UNESCO/UATI World Academy of Biomedical Technologies. Since 1997, he has been a member of the IFMBE Administrative Council and of various IFMBE subcommittees.

Prof. Dr. Joachim H. Nagel
Director, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
University of Stuttgart
Seidenstrasse 36
70174 Stuttgart
Germany
Phone: +49 (711) 121-2370
Fax: +49 (711) 121-2371
Email: jn@bmt.uni-stuttgart.de

Past-President Jean-Pierre Morucci

Dr. Morucci obtained a BSc from Nancy University in 1959 and Engineering degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electricité et de Mécanique in Nancy. From 1962 to 1971, he worked as an engineer at the Atomic Energy Commission, studying the use of radioisotopes in medicine, and during this period obtained his Doctor-Engineer degree in 1964 and PhD degree in 1969.   

From 1971 to 1975, he worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Paris 12 (setting up of the University Institute of Technology and head of the Physical Measurements Department). In 1975 he was a Professor at the University of Toulouse (setting up the Masters degree in Biological and Medical Engineering Science and Techniques). From 1978 to 1986, he was Director of the Center of Biomedical Technology, of the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), and from 1986 worked as Director of the INSERM Unit 305 [Biomedical Technology Research and Industrial Transfer] comprising 70 people (40 full-time equivalents)]. He has been Senior Professor of Bioengineering since 1983 and Director of the Diploma of Advanced Studies in Medical Physics (Toulouse University).   

He is the author of several books and over 100 articles, has supervised over 50 theses, is the holder of 13 patents and is a member of several editorial boards of bioengineering journals. He was the French delegate at the Commission of the European Communities (Brussels) in the Concerted Action Committee for Biological and Medical Engineer-ing (1980-1990). Program co-chair of the IEEE/EMBS meeting (Paris 1992) and of the World Congress of IFMBE (Nice 1997). Senior member of IEEE/EMBS and emeritus member of the SEE (France).

Past-President of IFMBE and President of IUPESM.

Email: morucci@cict.fr

Council Member Professor J C Barbenel (BDS, MSc, PhD, CPhys FinstP, Cbiol FIBiol, Ceng FIBiol, Ceng FIPEM, FRSE)

My first degree was in dentistry but after practising, in hospital and general practice as well as in the army, I completed a Physics degree at the University of Dundee and an MSc in Bioengineering at the University of Strathclyde. After this I taught dentistry at the University of Dundee and then joined the University of Strathclyde in 1970. My departmental functions are supplemented by being Vice Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Engineering.   

My research interests include the mechanical properties of the soft connective tissues and their replacement by tissue engineered structures; physiological measurement and the extraction of information from such measurements. I have provided bioengineering input to a number of national working groups, e.g. The Department of Health, The Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Nursing.   

My involvement with professional/ learned activities include the Past Presidentship of the Biological Engineering Society and the Chancellorship of the International Faculty for Artificial Organs.

Email:J.C.Barbenel@strath.ac.uk

Council Member Janie M. Fouke

Dr. Fouke is Dean of the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, completed a liberal arts degree in biology at St. Andrews Presbyterian College and graduate degrees in biomedical mathematics and engineering at the University of North Carolina. Before arriving at Michigan State, she served as division director of Bioengineering and Environmental Systems at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Fouke was previously a faculty member of Case Western Reserve University's Department of Biomedical Engineering, a position she had held 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 etiology of airway diseases such as asthma and the 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.

Email: fouke@egr.msu.edu

Council Member Didier Geiger

Dr. Geiger obtained a PhD from the University of Paris in 1979 on the propagation of pressure waves inside an elastic tube: The PhD was entitled "Relations between fluid flow and mechanical properties of the vessel wall, with application to cardiovascular fluid dynamics".   

He has been with the University of Paris Val-de-Marne since 1981, at Créteil (France), as Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and has been co-chairman of the Biomechanical Engineering Laboratory (CNRS ESA 7052).   His main research topics are in the field of mechanics applied to medicine and biology (biomechanics): modelling and characterisation of the mechanical properties of soft biological tissues.   

He has been involved since 1984 in the research and technology transfer process between universities, hospitals, or research centres and private companies in the fields of biomedical technologies and engineering, and has been a member of the Administrative Council of the University Paris Val-de-Marne since 1993. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering from 1994 to 1998, and Director of the Doctorate program in Science and Engineering at the University Paris Val-de-Marne, since 2000.   

Additionally, he as acted as co-chairman of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (NICE 97).

Didier Geiger

University Paris XII Val-de-Marne 61, avenue du Général de Gaulle 94010 CR…TEIL Cedex (France)

Phone: +33 1 45 17 14 30 Fax: + 33 1 45 17 14 33

E-mail: geiger@univ.paris12.fr

Homepage: http://www.univ-paris12.fr/www/labos/lmp/Geiger/