IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology conference 2008

30th Annual International Conference of the

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
August 20-24, 2008

"Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Keynote Speaker
Partnered by the University of Washington, Department of Bioengineering
Thursday, August 21, 8:00-8:50 am
Leroy Hood, (Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA)

Title: Systems Biology and Systems Medicine: From reactive to predictive, personalized, preventive and participatory (P4) medicine

Plenary Speakers
Thursday, August 21, 1:00-1:50 pm
Tom Hudson (President and Scientific Director, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada)

Title: Genetic Variation and Cancer

Friday, August 22, 8:00-8:50 am
Kathie Olsen, (National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, USA)

Title: Neurotech at the Interface: Connecting the Engineering and Physical Sciences with Life Sciences

Friday, August 22, 1:00-1:50 pm
Leon Glass, (Isadore Rosenfeld Chair in Cardiology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada)

Title: Understanding and Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death

Saturday, August 23, 8:00-8:50 am
Sean Hill, (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

Title: The Blue Brain Project

Sunday, August 24, 8:00-8:50 am
Ted Berger, (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Title: Biomimetic Micro-Electronic Systems as Neural Prostheses: Restoration of Lost Memory Function and Enhancement of Normal Memory Function with Implantable Spatio-Temporal Models of Hippocampal Input-Output Activity