Minisymposia & Special Sessions

Minisymposia

(minisymposia abstracts)

Title Organizers Where & When
Recent Advances on Cuff-Less Blood Pressure Measurement Technology I Mukkamala, Ramakrishna – Michigan State University

Inan, Omer – Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 08:00-09:30

Grand Republic A

Modeling and Simulation in Clinical Trials and Drug Development Moon, Jon – MEI Research, Ltd

Wang, May D. – Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 08:00-09:30

Pastoral I

Advances in Sleep Theranostics I Khoo, Michael – University of Southern California

Penzel, Thomas – Sleep Medicine Center, Berlin Germany

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 08:00-09:30

Grand Republic C

From Pathogens to Cell Therapy: Latest Advances in Biosensor Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications Nagahara, Larry – Johns Hopkins University

 

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 08:00-09:30

Atlantic A

 

Cyber-Security, IoT, Wearables and the Quantified Self (QS) Gershon, Nahum – MITRE Corporation

 

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 08:00-09:30

Pacific

Engineering at the Neural Interface Durand, Dominique – Case Western Reserve University Wednesday, August 17, 2016 11:00-12:30

Sorcerer’s Apprentice 1

 

Recent Advances on Cuff-Less Blood Pressure Measurement Technology II Hahn, Jin-Oh – University of Maryland

Mestha, Lalit, K. – GE Global Research

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 11:00-12:30

Grand Republic A

Advances in Sleep Theranostics II Khoo, Michael C.K – University of Southern California

Penzel, Thomas – Sleep Medicine Center, Berlin, Germany

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 11:00-12:30

Grand Republic C

Transforming Biomedical Engineering Technologies for “a better life” Through Open Consensus Standards Carey, Carole C. – IEEE EMB Society & IEEE Life Sciences Standards Committees

Sloane, Elliot B. – Center for Healthcare Information Research and Policy

Wheeler, Jean –

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 11:00-12:30

Pacific

Advances in Sleep Theranostics III Khoo, Michael C.K – University of Southern California

Penzel, Thomas – Sleep Medicine Center, Berlin, Germany

 

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 15:30-17:00

Pastoral I

Session I: Multiscale Modeling & Simulation: Scientific Impact and Clinical Translation May, Elebeoba – University of Houston

 

Thursday, August 18, 2016 08:00-09:30

Grand Republic A

Advancing the Clinical / Physiological Interpretation and Relevance of Heart-Induced Body Vibration Measurements (Ballistocardiography and Seismocardiography) DiRienzo, Marco – Politecnico of Milan, Italy

Inan, Omer T. – Georgia Institute of Technology

Thursday, August 18, 2016 08:00-09:30

Grand Republic C

Next generation electroencephalography recording electrodes Casson, Alexander – University of Manchester Thursday, August 18, 2016 08:00-09:30

Atlantic A

Flexible Neural Interface Devices and Systems Jeong, Jae-Woong – University of Colorado

Guo, Liang – Ohio State University

Thursday, August 18, 2016 08:00-09:30

Pacific

Progress in Bi-directional Neural Interfaces to Restore Lost Sensorimotor Function Oweiss, Karim G. – Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering – McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Florida Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:00-12:30

Atlantic B

Multiscale Modeling & Simulation: Challenges in Model Reproducibility & Credibility May, Elebeoba – University of Houston

Erdemir, Ahmet – Cleveland Clinic

Sauro, Herbert – University of Washington

Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:00-12:30

Grand Republic A

Imaging in Biopharmaceutical Industry Dogdas, Belma – Merck, NJ, USA Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:00-12:30

Atlantic A

Emerging Technologies in Bladder Neuroprostheses Yoo, Paul B. – Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering @ the University of Toronto

Bruns, Tim M. – University of Michigan

Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:00-12:30

Pacific

Frontier Symposium I Principe, Jose – University of Florida Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:00-12:30

Grand Republic C

Advances in brain connectivity analysis: perspectives and pitfalls Astolfi, Laura – University of Rome Sapienza

Faes, Luca – Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy

Friday, August 19, 2016 08:00-09:30

Grand Republic D

Bio-medical Systems – Can you hack them? Narasimhan, Seetharam – SVE Security Center of Excellence

Bhunia, Swarup – University of Florida

Friday, August 19, 2016 08:00-09:30

Grand Republic C

Career Development Publishing, Partnerships, Professional Networking and Pathways to Commercialization Platt, JoAnn – Platt & Associates

Puerta, Margot – Feinstein Institute Press

Friday, August 19, 2016 08:00-09:30

Atlantic A

Tackling global challenges from Latin America Pino, Esteban J. – University of Concepcion, Chile

Irarrazabal, Pablo – Universidad Catolica de Chile

Friday, August 19, 2016 08:00-09:30

Pacific

Restoring Human Performance through Physical and Robotic Augmentation Carey, Stephanie L. – University of South Florida

Reed, Kyle B. – University of South Florida

Friday, August 19, 2016 11:00-12:30

Sorcerer’s Apprentice 3

Integrating Image-Guided Therapeutic Systems and Computer-Assisted Intervention Platforms Linte, Cristian A. – Rochester Institute of Technology

Prakash, Punit – Kansas State University

Friday, August 19, 2016 11:00-12:30

Atlantic A

Biomedical Engineering Challenges of the next century Zequera-Diaz, Martha Lucia – Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia

Magjarevic, Ratko – University of Zagreb

Friday, August 19, 2016 11:00-12:30

Atlantic B

Recent Progress on Advanced Photoacoustic  Imaging Kim, Chulhong – Pohang Univ. of Science and Tech. Friday, August 19, 2016 11:00-12:30

Pacific

Frontier Symposium II Principe, Jose – University of Florida Friday, August 19, 2016 11:00 – 12:30

Grand Republic C

Special Sessions

Title Organizer Where & When
Research And Innovation Forum. Needs And Trends In Algorithms For P-Health Solutions Addressing CVD Management Vicente Traver

Paulo de Carvalho

Ratko Magjarevic

May D. Wang

Riccardo Barbieri

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 08:00-9:30

Grand Republic D

IEEE Brain Initiative Paul Sajda

Jose Carmena

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 08:00-09:30

Sorcerer’s Apprentice 1

IEEE Big Data Initiative Kathy Grise

 

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 11:00-12:30

Grand Republic D

NSF: Transforming Health Through Interdisciplinary Team Science Meghan Murphy Wednesday, August 17, 2016 11:00-12:30

Atlantic A

BRAIN Plenary Symposium Bin He Wednesday, August 17, 2016 14:00-15:25

Ballroom of Americas

IEEE Life Science Technical Community Public Session Carolyn McGregor Wednesday, August 17, 2016 15:30-17:00

Pacific

Big Sensor Data Analytics for HealthCare Lei Liu

Steven Simske

Donghui Wu

Thursday, August 18, 2016 08:00-09:30

Grand Republic D

Heterogeneous data analysis to deliver precision medicine on societal scale Matthias Reumann Thursday, August 18, 2016 08:00-9:30

Grand Republic D

Entrepreneurship MiniSymposium: How to start a start-up I

 

Dorin Panescu

 

Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:00-12:30

Grand Republic B

Emerging Health Informatics FHIR Enabled Clinical Decision Support for Point-of-Care Timothy Buchman Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:00-12:30

Grand Republic D

Special Symposium: Advanced Biomedical and Health Informatics for Personalized, Predictive, and Precision Health Shankar Subramaniam

May D.  Wang

 

Thursday, August 18, 2016 14:00-15:25

Ballroom of Americas

The Quantified Self: Visions for the Next Decade of Persistent Physiological Monitoring Nahum Gershon Thursday, August 18, 2016, 14:00-15:25

Grand Republic

Entrepreneurship MiniSymposium: How to start a start-up II

 

Dorin Panescu

 

Thursday, August 18, 2016 15:30-17:00

Atlantic B

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Information Session Wendy Nilsen

Meghan Murphy

Friday, August 19, 2016 11:00-12:30

Grand Republic D

Special Symposium: Point-Of-Care Technologies for Precision Medicine Atam Dhawan Friday, August 19, 2016 14:00-15:25

Ballroom of Americas