Swamy LaxminarayanPresent and Previous Positions Held: Chief of Biomedical Information Engineering, Idaho State University, Idaho, USA (current), Clinical Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Program Director of Biomedical Computing, University of Medicine & Dentistry, NJ, Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, NJ Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, Director of Computational Biology & Vice Chair of Imaging and Visualization Group, University of Medicine & Dentistry, NJ, Director of Clinical Computing, Montefiore Hospital &Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, Director, Healthcare Information Services, NextGen Internet, Princeton, Principal Scientific Officer, Physiology Laboratory, The Free University, Amsterdam & the Thorax Center, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Research Associate, University of Southampton, UK, Honorary Professor, Health Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, China, Visiting Professor, University of BRNO, Czech Republic. Selected Professional Society Services: Vice President of the IEEE EMB Society, Elected Member of the EMBS Administrative and Executive Committees, EMBS International Chair, Founding Editor-in-Chief and Editor Emeritus of the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Program Chair and General Conference Chair of EMBS and other IEEE Conferences, Elected to the IEEE Publications Services and Products Board, IEEE Strategic Planning and Transnational Committees, EMBS Delegate to the ESEM, IEEE Delegate to the General Assembly of the IFMBE, IEEE Delegate to the Public Policy Commission and the Council of Societies of the AIMBE, Fellow of the AIMBE, Senior Member of IEEE, Life Member, Romanian Society of Clinical Engineering and Computing, Life Member, Biomedical Engineering Society of India, US Delegate to IFAC and IMEKO Councils in TC13, Recipient of the Czech Purkynje Award, the IEEE Millennium Award, and EMBS Service Awards for contributions to BME. I firmly believe in the globalisation of biomedical engineering in which professional societies have a strong role to play. The IFMBE’s umbrella structure of national societies including its transnational members, is a model of excellence that provides just that kind of Forum. As one of the founding members who strived for the IEEE inception into the IFMBE, as a transnational member, I pledge my continued commitment and support to further the goals and enhanced cooperation between the U.S. biomedical engineering community and the IFMBE. In addition to the EMBS members, biomedical engineering has penetrated into the technical activities of several other IEEE societies, such as the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Communication Society. Through my membership on one of the IEEE Boards as well as my active affiliation as a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), I feel poised to make significant contributions to the globalisation of the BME discipline. In my previous activities as the EMBS International Chair, I had the honour to interact closely with a number of other national BME societies around the world. I offer my leadership experiences for continuing to build the international synergies that currently prevail under the IFMBE umbrella.
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