The annual meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society will be held October 6-9 in Austin, Texas and hosted by The University of Texas at Austin in conjunction with the UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering. The 2010 meeting will feature three workshops, four plenary lectures, research presentations, a variety of special sessions, and valuable networking among members of the BME community.
More than 3,100 people attended the 2010 meeting in Austin, Texas, setting a new record for the 42 year-old society. The leading innovators and researchers in biomedical engineering presented their work during 1,556 poster presentations and 788 oral presentations over three days at the meeting sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin. The 2010 meeting theme was "Engineering New Frontiers in Medicine and Biology," in which the goal was to create a meeting that highlighted the future of Biomedical Engineering. In line with this theme, the 2010 meeting incorporated several new features, including a "Meet-the-Faculty-Candidates" poster session and an additional plenary session, "Future Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering". This session was hosted by the University of Texas at Austin’s Biomedical Engineering Department, and featured four key leaders in the field who speculates on the future of Biomedical Engineering. The annual meeting also attracted a record number of exhibitors including Medtronic, Inc. and National Instruments Corp. Information about the meeting was posted live via several social media outlets including: * YouTube, www.youtube.com/BMESociety * Twitter, http://twitter.com/BMESociety * Facebook, www.facebook.com/BMESociety * Flickr, www.flickr.com/groups/bmes/ Video interviews with researchers at the meeting, photos of the events and much more can be found at the various social media sites. One highlight is a video interview with Dr. Rebecca Richards-Kortum of Rice University. Richards-Kortum presented the Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture about her work in applying biomedical engineering in developing countries. See the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGdiyzV0Uu4
