2012 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA on October 24-27, 2012

1238568 jobmes年度秋季会议是由生物医学工程学会（BMES）举办的高质量的多学科科学活动。今年的会议由佐治亚理工学院和埃默里大学共同主办，将于2012年10月24日至27日在佐治亚州亚特兰大举行。今年的主题是“整合学术、产业和翻译：从发现到实施”。主要项目由15个平行的技术项目组成，提供800多份口头报告和1600多份海报报告。会议还将包括两个为期一天的研讨会，由杰出的学术、翻译和行业领袖举办的9场全体讲座，两个特别专题讨论会，众多研究报告和各种特别会议。该会议还通过“与教师见面”环节和招聘会提供就业机会，行业可以与学生见面。两个会前研讨会将讨论BME的重要当代问题：“库尔特学院”，侧重于技术转让和商业化；以及为博士后提供专业发展的COACH。2012年的会议预计将有创纪录的3500多名与会者。潜在的出席记录是基于2011年会议收到的摘要数量（即2448份，比2010年增加了12%）。一份计划小册子将向与会者提供详细的计划。所有的技术报告都将是一页的，经过同行评审的摘要，这些摘要将被编辑成CD格式并分发给所有的注册人。该CD也将提供给所有共同赞助社团。目前，由于接受了大量高质量的摘要，预计裁谈会将作为会议的唯一技术会议记录。2012年的会议目前有三个主要赞助商承诺赞助，包括佐治亚理工学院、克莱姆森大学和美敦力。智力优势：本次会议是一次高质量的科学、智力刺激和跨学科会议。这是BME领域的首次会议，通过包含会议记录的可搜索CD以及会议和协会网站，汇集了学术界，翻译界和工业界的不同BME社区，包括细胞和分子工程，组织工程。它还由几个著名的bme相关协会共同主办。除了超过2,400个口头和海报演讲，以及两个会前研讨会外，BMES奖委员会还选出至少九位在BMES方面具有国际声誉的高知识水平的杰出演讲者进行演讲。这些全体讲座和会议的知识内容将提供重要的思想，概念，工具和方法的交叉受精，并将突出BME作为生物学，医学和工程学交叉点的重要性。更广泛的影响：除了本次会议将对主流生物医学工程社区产生直接影响外，本次会议的主要目的是促进生命科学和工程技术之间的重要交叉，并促进生物医学工程实践中多学科方法的整合。这个特定的目标主要针对本科生和研究生，博士后实习生和初级教师社区，因为他们在BME科学和实践的未来发展中发挥着重要作用，预计60%的与会者将是学生。来自NSF的资金将用于鼓励和奖励学生，特别是来自代表性不足的群体的学生，而其中的一部分也将用于邀请著名的BME相关领导人参加会议。为了成功地实现这一具体目标，积极促进和鼓励生物医学工程师、其他学科的工程师、细胞和分子生物学家、生物化学家、生物物理学家和其他科学家，包括临床研究人员、医生和工业界成员的参与。通过这种方式，这次会议将比仅由BME社区参加的会议产生更广泛的影响。这也将对该学科的现状和未来产生广泛的影响，因为学生将通过参加会议以及通过全体发言人和讲习班提供的材料受益。随后，这次会议的另一个主要目标是使会议上提出的高质量科学信息易于为多个学会和广大公众所利用。

1238568 JoThe BMES Annual Fall Meeting is a high quality, multidisciplinary scientific event conducted by the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). This year's meeting is co-hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University and will be held in Atlanta, Georgia from October 24-27, 2012. This year's theme is "Integrating Academics, Industry, and Translation: From Discovery to Implementation." The main program consists of a total of 15 parallel technical Program Tracks providing over 800 oral presentations and an additional 1,600+ in poster presentations. The meeting will also feature two one-day workshops, 9 plenary lectures by distinguished academic, translational and industry leaders, two special symposia, numerous research presentations and a variety of special sessions. This meeting also offers career opportunities through its "Meet the Faculty" session and a career fair where industry can meet with students. The two pre-conference workshops will deal with important contemporary issues in BME: "Coulter College", which focuses on technology transfer and commercialization; and COACH, which offers professional development for post-doctorates. A record 3,500+ attendees are anticipated for the 2012 meeting. The potential record attendance is based upon the number of abstracts received for the 2011 meeting (i.e., 2,448, which is a 12% increase over that of 2010). A Program booklet will provide program details to the participants of the conference. All technical presentations will be one-page, peer-reviewed abstracts, which will be compiled in CD format and distributed to all registrants. Copies of the CD will also be provided to all co-sponsoring societies. Currently, the CD is envisioned to serve as the only technical proceedings of the meeting due to the large number of high-quality abstracts accepted. The 2012 meeting currently has sponsorship commitments from three major sponsors, including the Georgia Institute of Technology, Clemson University and Medtronic.Intellectual Merit:This conference is an extremely high-quality scientific, intellectually stimulating, and interdisciplinary meeting. It is the premiere conference for the BME field and brings together different BME communities in academics, translation and industry, including cell and molecular engineering, tissue engineering, through a searchable CD containing the proceedings and through the conference and society web sites. It also is co-sponsored by several prestigious BME-related societies. In addition to more than 2,400 oral and poster presentations, and two pre-conference workshops, at least nine distinguished speakers of high intellectual merit with international reputations for BME excellence are chosen by the BMES Awards Committee to give talks. These plenary lectures and the intellectual content of the meeting will provide important cross-fertilization of ideas, concepts, tools, and approaches, and will highlight the importance of BME as the intersection of Biology, Medicine, and Engineering.Broader Impact:In addition to the direct impact this conference will have on the mainstream BME community, the primary aim of this meeting is to serve as the facilitator of important cross-fertilizations between the life sciences and engineering technologies and the facilitator of this integration in the multi-disciplinary approach to the practice of BME. This specific aim heavily targets the undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral trainees and junior faculty communities for their essential role in the future advancement of the BME sciences and practices and it is expected that 60% of the attendees will be students. The funding from the NSF will be useful to encourage and reward students, especially from underrepresented groups, while a portion of it will also help to bring the distinguished BME related leaders to the meeting. In order to successfully accomplish this specific aim, participation from biomedical engineers, engineers from other disciplines, cell and molecular biologists, biochemists, biophysicists, and other scientists, including clinical researchers, physicians, and members of the industrial communities, is actively promoted and encouraged. In this manner, this conference will have a much broader impact than if it were to be attended by only the BME community. This will also provide a broad impact for the current state of the discipline as well as for the future, since students will benefit by participation in the meeting and through the material presented by the plenary speakers and workshops. Subsequently, another primary aim of this meeting is to make the high-quality scientific information presented at the meeting readily available to multiple societies and to the public at large.