15. Nordic - Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics

Conference venue:

Aalborg Kongres &
Kultur Center
Europa Plads 4
9000 Aalborg

Tel. +45 9935 5555 (Administration)
Fax +45 9935 5533 (Administration)

akkc@akkc.dk
www.akkc.dk

Thank you all for making NBC15 such a successful event!
See you at the 16. Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2014

Welcome to Aalborg

NBC15 will take place on June 14-17, 2011 in Aalborg, Denmark

December 6, 2010	Opening of registration
March 1, 2011	Deadline for paper submission
March 15, 2011	Notification of paper acceptance
March 31, 2011	Deadline for early registration
June 6, 2011	Deadline for registration

The Conference will bring together science, education and business under the motto "Cooperation for health".

Conference papers will be published in the IFBME Proceedings Series.

We are sure you will enjoy NBC2011 both scientifically and socially, and we will do our best to make NBC15 an outstanding event.

We are looking forward to welcome you in Aalborg!

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Keynote speakers

	Herbert Voigt, Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University. Dr. Voigts research include: Auditory Neuroscience; Auditory nerve and cochlear nucleus physiology; Correlation of physiological response properties with anatomical properties of neurons; Encoding of complex signals and transformations of these encoded signals by the neuronal circuitry of the cochlear nucleus; Multiunit recording and analysis; Mathematical modeling of the neuronal circuitry of the cochlear nucleus. Herbert Voigt is President of IFMBE.
	Metin Akay, Professor, PhD Metin Akay is currently leading the new Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Houston, USA. He has played a key role in promoting biomedical education in the world by writing and editing several books, editing several special issues of prestigious journals, including the Proc of IEEE, and giving several keynote and plenary talks at international conferences, symposiums and workshops regarding emerging technologies in biomedical and healthcare engineering. Akay is a recipient of the IEEE EMBS Service Award, and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Early Career Achievement Award.
	Per Ask, Professor, PhD Head of Division for Physiological Measurements, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden. He was for 6 years chairmen for the priority committee for biomedical engineering of the Swedish research Council. His research has its focus in the cardiovascular area using non-invasive diagnostic methods in particular bioacoustic techniques and signal processing. The division is deeply involved in the NovaMedTech which is an EU-funded program that support R &D with the intention of bringing new medical technologies to market.
	James Goh Cho Hong, Professor Head of Division of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Director of Research, Orthopaedic Surgery, National University Health System (NUHS) And Coordinator, Orthopaedic Diagnostic Centre, NUHS. James Goh Cho Hong is President of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Singapore, Secretary General of the Administrative Council at IFMBE, Council Member of the World Council of Biomechanics, Secretary General of the Asia-Pacific Association for Biomechanics and Treasurer of the Executive Council, World Association for Chinese Biomedical Engineers
	Liselotte Højgaard, Professor, MD, DMSc Head of Dept. of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine and PET, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital and Professor in Medical Technology at the University of Copenhagen with clinical responsibility for the education as Civil Engineer in Medicine and Technology, University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark. Liselotte Højgaard is involved in research administration at national and international level. She is member of The Danish Council for Research Policy and Chairman of the Standing Committee for the European Medical Research Council at the European Science Foundation, Strasbourg
	Poul Flemming Høilund-Carlsen, Professor, MD Head of department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Odense University Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Specialist in clinical physiology and nuclear medicine. Poul Flemming Høilund-Carlsen has been consultant at Central Laboratory of Clinical Physiology Section at the Central Hospital in Holbæk. He has since 1993 been a member of the Heart Foundation Research Committee and the 1994 Faculty Council at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark
	Newton de Faria, Adjunct Professor, PhD Newton combines his biomedical engineering background with his extensive domain expertise in virtual instrumentation and provides guidance and know-how to academia, basic and applied research, translation, design, development, deployment, and test of biomedical technology. His current areas of focus involve Imaging Diagnostics, Bio-Photonics, Regenerative Medicine, and Genome Mapping. Newton is active in the BME community by teaching Bioinstrumentation at the University of Connecticut. He is also part of the board of directors of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), as well as chair of the BMES industry affairs committee.
	Hans Stødkilde-Jørgensen, Associate professor, MD MR-Research Centre at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. The Centre provides facilities for advanced bioimaging and with a transdisciplinary approach the latest advances in nature sciences and engineering are translated to biomedicine and subsequently implemented in clinical applications
	Morten Ølgaard Jensen, Associate Professor, PhD After six years with National Instruments in Austin, TX, Morten relocated to Denmark and received the PhD degree in Medicine from the University of Aarhus in 2008. He is currently employed at ASE, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery at the University Hospital of Aarhus. Morten’s research focus is on experimental cardiac surgery, and has authored and co-authored 18 peer reviewed articles and three patents. Some of his research results are currently used in the FDA guidelines for heart repair devices.
	Jesper Langhoff Hønge, MD Dept. of Cardiothoracic and Vasucular Surgery. Working with experimental cardiac surgery and tissue engineering of biological heart valve prostheses. Special focus on force and geometri investigations of the different heart valves in coorporation with engineers from the dept. of biomedical engineering, Aarhus University.