National Steering Committee:
Sergio Cerutti, Chairman of the Organising Committee of EMBC’15, Chairman of IEEEEMBS Chapter - Italy, Department of Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano
Francesco Vatalaro, Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Roma “Tor Vergata”,
President of IEEE Italy Section
Biomedical engineering:
a bridge to improve the quality of health
care and the quality of life
Marcello Bracale, Department of Biomedical, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Secretary of AIIMB (affiliated to IFMBE)
Piero Morasso, IIT - Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, President of Italian Bioengineering Group (GNB)
Ferdinando Grandori, Head of Biomedical Engineering Institute, Italian Research Council
(CNR), Padova-Milano
Emanuele Biondi, Professor Emeritus in Biomedical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Fabio Babiloni, Department of Physiology, University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma
Claudio Cobelli, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova
Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa
Carmelina Ruggiero, Department of Informatics, Systems and Telematics, University of Genova
Other possible supporting Institutions for EMBC’2015:
A proposal for holding IEEE-EMBS Annual
Conference 2015 in Milan
Ministry of Health, Italian Government, Roma
Ministry of University, Italian Government, Roma
Ministry of Tourism, Italian Government, Roma
Governor of Lombardia Region, Milano
Health Deputy District, Lombardia Region, Milano
Expo2015, Milano
University of Milano
IIT – Italian Institute of Technology, Genova
Research National Council – CNR, Rome and Padova-Milano
IEEE Chapter, Milano
Mayor of Milano
President of Engineers’ Professional Order, District in Milano
President of Physicians’ Professional Order, District in Milano
Lombardia Tourist Office
AEIT – Theme Group on Bioengineering, Milano
CEI-UNI Standards & Regulations Bodies (Associated to IEC and ISO), Milano
AIIC (Italian Association of Clinical Engineers), Torino
Scientific Research Centres in public or private Health Structures
Private Companies in the area of Medical Equipment, Medical Devices and Clinical
Engineering Services.
June 18th, 2010
Programme
Motivation
9.00 Opening
Biomedical Engineering is considered the
area in which the higher job growth is
expected in the next years at least in the USA
(Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Occupation
Outlook Handbook 2004-2005) with figures
of increment of 32.4% (Healthcare and
social assistance) and 21-35% (Biomedical,
biotechnology, bioengineering). Accordingly,
“Biomedical area” is the one which the major
stakeholders of IEEE consider as a best bet
for actual students regarding their future
employment in Research & Development
(IEEE Spectrum, 2007).
“IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Society (EMBS) is the world's largest international
Society of biomedical engineers. It has 8,200
members from about 70 Countries around
the world and provides its members with
access to the most fascinating people,
practices, information, ideas, and opinions,
from one of science's fasting growing fields”
(http://www.embs.org/).
Our proposal that this major scientific
Conference in the area of Biomedical Engineering
could be held in Italy stems from the long
tradition in this area of teaching and research
that was held in the last decades in our
Country. The first official teaching Course in
the area of Biomedical Engineering was held
since 1968 at the University of Padova and
since 1969 at the Politecnico di Milano, with
the title of Biological Electronics inside the
Curriculum of Electronic Engineering. Here at
the Politecnico the course was taken by Prof
Emanuele Biondi, who is certainly the Father
of Biomedical Engineering in Italy, who is
now more than 80 years old and he will be a
Member of the scientific Committee of the
Conference.
At present in Italy we have 11 Universities
which issue a BS title in BME and about 16
a title in MS in BME with a total amount
of about 1700 BS students and 1500 MS
student of attendance in the first year of their
curriculum.
9.00 Sergio Cerutti, Department of Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano
Welcome and Introduction
Session I
Activity of Biomedical Engineering in Italy and at Politecnico in Milano
Chairmen: Claudio Cobelli, Antonio Pedotti
9.05 Pietro Morasso, President of the Italian National Bioengineering
Group (GNB), Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova
Research and teaching activities in Biomedical Engineering in Italy
9.35 Giuseppe Baselli, Head of the Department of Bioengineering,
Politecnico di Milano
Activity of Biomedical Engineering at the Department of
Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano
9.50 Andrea Lacaita, Department of Electronics and Information
Aldo Cubeddu, Department of Physics
Gabriele Dubini, Department of Structural Engineering
Contributions from other Departments at Politecnico
10.20 Coffee break
Session II
Focus on IEEE-EMBS activity and its scientific leadership in
Biomedical Engineering
Chairmen: Sergio Cerutti, Paolo Dario
10.35 Bin He, President of IEEE-EMBS, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, USA
Functional Neuroimaging of Brain Activity
11.15 Nigel Lovell, Vice President of IEEE-EMBS, University of New
South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Wearable and Implantable Bionics: from Managing Chronic Disease
to Therapies for Blindness
11.45 Short messages from Silvano Donati (IEEE Italy Section), Marcello
Bracale (AIIMB-IFMBE), Carlo Mambretti (Assobiomedica),
Antonio Malgaroli (IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele-Università “Vita e
Salute”), Ferdinando Grandori (CNR)
Aula De Donato (ex S01)
h. 9.00-12.30 Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - 20133 Milano
Starting from 1975, at the Politecnico di
Milano two formal Tracks in BME started
inside the curricula of Electronic Engineering
and Mechanical Engineering. On 1983 a
PhD Course on Bioengineering was started
and actually there are approximately 15
students per year on this topic. In 1992 a
Bachelor of Science (Diploma Universitario)
was started in BME and in 1995 a Master
of Science Course (5 years of University
studies) was launched in BME. Actually,
according to the Bologna declaration, we
have two curricula in series (Bachelor + Master,
3+2 year). These curricula have a great
success among students and we had about
300 students as freshmen in the BS course in
the last years, and this is also the effect of a
large attraction which BME in Milano acts
on students from various parts of Italy.
Last but not least, the coincidence with the
World Expo2015 in Milano, will provide to
the Conference a further appeal to scholars
and scientists working in BME and related
fields. This occasion would also stress the
historical relevance of exact Sciences in
biology, as it is witnessed by the activities in
Lombardia Region of Leonardo da Vinci and
Alessandro Volta. In the Workshop a concise
description of BME activities in Italy, as well
as inside the Politecnico, will be delivered.
Prof Bin He (President) and Prof Nigel
Lovell (Vice-President) of IEEE-EMBS will
deal with advanced research topics in
Neuroengineering and Wearable and
Implanted Bionics, respectively.
Finally, as representatives of other supporting organisations, messages will be
delivered from the IEEE Italy Section, the
Italian Association of Medical and Biological
Engineering (AIIMB – affiliated to IFMBE),
the Association of Biomedical Industries
(Assobiomedica), the Research Center
inside San Raffaele Hospital – “Vita e Salute”
University and the Italian Research Council
(CNR).