EMBS

an International Organization

Advancing Health Care

Through Technolog

y Bruce WheelerPresident

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

University of Florida

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Thank You’s

Thanks to Janet and John and Peter … and now many new friends

Why I am here TMI NIBIB

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A Little Background on People

Bruce Wheeler … at University of Illinois … at University of Florida … at IEEE EMBSEMBS President Elect Andrew Laine … at Columbia … at IEEE EMBSOur Office … Laura Wolf and 3 staff

EMBS Mission – a Full Service Professional Organization

Advancing Health Care

Through Technolog

y

• EMBS – world’s oldest / largest biomedical engineering society

Roots to 1948 AIEE Electrical Techniques in BioMed

1968: IEEE Professional Group on Medical

Electronics renamed EMBS >9800 members >1900 student members Typically >2500 attendees at annual

conference

EMBS

an International Organization

Annual Conferences Are Global

2005-2016

Shanghai (2005), New York, Lyon, Vancouver, Minneapolis,

Buenos Aires, Boston,San Diego, Osaka, Chicago, Milan, Orlando

Osaka in 2013(over 3000 attendees)

Chicago in 2014

Journal Submissions are Global

USA

ChinaEurope

India

186 EMBS ChaptersStudent Chapters and Clubs

EMBS Summer SchoolsOne week immersion courses for graduate students with expert instructors International Summer Schools on … … Biomedical Imaging (France) … Biomedical Signal Processing (Italy) … Biocomplexity and Biodesign (Turkey) … Medical Devices and Biosensors (Hong

Kong) … Information Technology in Biomedicine

(Greece) … Neural Engineering (Shanghai) … Telemedicine (Slovakia)

EMBS Special Topic Conferences

Intl Symposium Medical Imaging Beijing, San Francisco, Barcelona, Chicago, Rotterdam, Boston, Paris, Washington, Arlington

Neural Engineering San Diego, Capri, Washington, Cancun, Hawaii, Turkey

Healthcare Innovations Conference Bethesda, Washington, Houston, Seattle

Point-of-Care Healthcare Technologies Bangalore Grand Challenges in Biomedical Engineering

Washington (3), Singapore Biomedical and Health Informatics Greece, China, Spain Biomedical Imaging Barcelona, San Francisco, Beijing Biorobotics Rome, Sao Paolo

Micro/Nano Engineering in Medicine Hawaii

Rehabilitation Robotics Seattle Zurich

First Student Run EMBS Conference October 2013 240 attendees

EMBS Sponsors 11 Journals Transactions on …

Biomedical Engineering (since 1964; forerunner since 1948) Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (1993) NanoBioscience (2002)* EMBS lead Medical Imaging (1982)* 4 way lead share Comput. Biology & Bioinformatics (2004)* (CompSci Lead) Biomedical Circuits and Systems (2007)* (Ckts Lead)

Reviews on Biomedical Engineering (2008)* Journal on …

Biomedical and Health Informatics (1997) Translational Eng’ring in Health & Medicine (2013 open

access) IEEE Life Science Letters* – new for 2014 (LSTC lead) IEEE PULSE – a magazine for Students of All Ages IEEE also publishes Transactions on Ultrasonics and

Transactions on Nuclear Sciences each with 25% biomedical content

* Joint sponsorship

EMBS Members by Employment

Academic 60% Members in Medical Curricula 15%

Industry 35% Members in Medical Industry (Hospital, MD,

etc) 12% Government, Military, Other 6%

Reports run on AC members from BMS December 2008

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Moving Forward

TMI ISBI Life Science Initiative Other Collaborations

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TMI

Thumbnail Sketch of Current Activity 32 years old – success has proved the

wisdom of its founders Has increased page count: 2400 (approx

240 articles) Impact factor (4.03) among highest of

IEEE; ranks with Medical Physics Excellent Timeliness: ~ 20 days; ePub ~70

days Revenues are strong: SPP Revenue

remains high; Increasing overlength charges compensate for declining subscriptions

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TMI – Moving Forward New Editor: Mike Insana Special Issue on Spectral CT -- Ge Wang,

Anthony Butler, Hengyong Yu, Michael Campbell, Guest Editors – NPS?

Presidents Directive to Steering Board Short term – address issues of NPS medical

imaging opportunities Long term – how to respond to

overwhelming success of this field and journals in time of great publishing upheaval New journal? New sections of same journal?

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ISBIInternational Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Ten years old; EMBS and Signal

Processing We would welcome NPSS and UFFC

Create a track Keynote speakers PET/SPECT/Molecular Imaging could evolve into financial sponsor Andrew Laine would like to work on this

Molecular Imaging is needed to lift this conference to the next level

Would like to see a closer link to TMI

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IEEE Life Science Technical Community

Past: $1.2M Two grand challenge conferences, one

web portal/newsletter, participated in members workshops

Contentious Journal Proposal Present: approved Technical

Community Donna Hudson is Chair EMBS, Computer, Communications,

Consumer, Control, Circuits $15k each for 3 years Just now organizing -- coordinate pubs,

collaborations? IEEE Life Science Letters approved,

has very high profile Editorial Board

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NPSS Interests?

Where can we help? Potential for your journal? Conferences? Joint Advertising?