Activity organized by: IFMBE Education & Accreditation Committee (E&A), IFMBE Students & Recent Graduates Working Group (S&RG-WG), and the Students Chapter SABI, Argentina, within the framework of the XXIV Congreso Argentino de Bioingeniería and XIII Jornada de Ingeniería Clínica, SABI 2023.

General Description:

Wednesday, October 4th, 2023

From: 17:30 – 18:30  (UTC/GMT -3), 22:30 – 23:30 (CEST/GMT+2)

Place: Universidad Arturo Jauretche. Florencio Varela Campus.

Mode: Hybrid Session

Website: https://sabi2023.ar/

Chair and Co-Chair:

  • Chair Prof. Martha Zequera. IFMBE AC member. Chair E&A Committee and S&RG-WG. Clinical Biomechanics Research FootLab. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia.
  • Co-Chair Dr. Fernando Ballina, General Director of Infrastructure and Equipment in the National Hospital. Sub-Coordinator and Professor, Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Chair of the Congress SABI 2023.

Coordinators:

  • Mateo Valverde, member of IFMBE S&RG-WG.
  • Leslie Cieza, member of IFMBE S&RG-WG.

The session is oriented to the exchange of academic and professional experiences by a group of invited panelists in the field of Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Medical Physics.

The special session aims to facilitate the exchange of educational experiences in the field of Biomedical Engineering among our distinguished invited professors and students hailing from diverse countries. Esteemed members of IFMBE and the Students Chapter SABI, Argentina, will collaborate as moderators for the session.

This session is oriented to respond about the future plan for the development of global biomedical engineering education by each invited professor, Prof. Ratko Magjarevic, President of IFMBE, University of Zagreb, Croatia; Prof. Shankar Krishnan, IUPESM Vice-President. USA, Mentor of S&RG-WG; Prof. Kang-Ping Lin Taiwan, Vice-President of IFMBE; Prof. Fabiola Martínez Licon, IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division Chair, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa; and Prof. Piotr Ladyzynski, Director of the Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering Polish Academy of Science, IFMBE Industry Committee Chair.