ESEM - from the Annual Report


The mission of ESEM is to establish a platform of cooperation between medicine and engineering on a European basis.

Such a bridge between medicine and engineering is vital in today's highly technological multi-disciplinary health care. Without it, medical doctors cannot keep up with rapidly developing health care technology and cannot provide their patients with state-of-the-art medical diagnosis and treatment. Equally, without close contact with medical doctors, engineers cannot focus their efforts upon the most pressing medical problems.

ESEM's mission brings benefits to medicine, to engineering and hence to the community, by supporting and identifying to medical doctors current and developing engineering contributions and technical developments in medicine; and by identifying for engineers specific medical problems which need to be solved by appropriate technological means.

Our activities for 2005 include:

17-20 April, 10th International Congress on Surgical & Prosthetic Rehabilitation after Laryngectomy www.med.rug.nl/bme/egfl
1-3 June, Regensburg Applied Biomechanics Meeting www.biomech-regensburg.de
11-15 July, IUTAM Symposium Biomechanics of Impact www.ucd.ie/iutam2005
20-25 November, 3rd European Medical & Biological Engineering Conference www.embec05.org
For details about joining ESEM, please see our website: www.esem.org

Prof. Dr. GJ Verkerke
Email: g.j.verkerke@med.rug.nl