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

1238568 JOBMES秋季年会是由生物医学工程学会(BMES)举办的一次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联合主办，将于2012年10月24-27日在佐治亚州亚特兰大举行。今年的主题是“融合学术、产业和翻译：从发现到实施”。主计划包括总共15个平行技术计划轨道，提供800多个口头演示文稿和1,600多个海报演示文稿。会议还将包括两个为期一天的研讨会、9个由杰出的学术、翻译和行业领袖举办的全体讲座、两个特别研讨会、众多研究报告和各种特别会议。本次会议还通过“与教师见面”环节和招聘会提供就业机会，工业界可以在这里与学生见面。两个会前研讨会将处理BME的重要当代问题：“库尔特学院”，专注于技术转让和商业化；和COACH，为博士后提供专业发展。预计2012年的会议出席人数将达到创纪录的3500多人。可能创纪录的出席人数是根据2011年会议收到的摘要数量计算的(即2448份，比2010年增加了12%)。计划手册将向会议参与者提供计划细节。所有技术介绍都将是一页经同行审查的摘要，将以光盘格式汇编并分发给所有注册者。该光盘的副本也将提供给所有共同赞助的社团。目前，由于接受了大量高质量的摘要，裁谈会预计将作为会议的唯一技术议事程序。2012年会议目前得到了三个主要赞助商的赞助承诺，包括佐治亚理工学院、克莱姆森大学和美敦力。智力优势：这次会议是一次极高质量的科学、智力激发和跨学科会议。这是BME领域的首届会议，通过包含会议记录的可搜索光盘以及通过会议和社会网站，将包括细胞和分子工程、组织工程在内的学术界、翻译界和工业界的不同BME社区聚集在一起。它也是由几个与BME相关的著名协会共同赞助的。除了2400多个口头和海报介绍以及两个会前讲习班外，BMES奖委员会还选择了至少九位具有杰出学术成就和卓越国际声誉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、工具和方法的交叉培养，并将突出BME作为生物学、医学和工程学的交叉点的重要性。广泛影响：除了这次会议将对BME主流社区产生直接影响之外，这次会议的主要目的是作为生命科学和工程技术之间重要交叉培养的促进者，并在BME实践的多学科方法中促进这种整合。这一具体目标主要针对本科生和研究生、博士后实习生和初级教员社区，因为他们在未来BME科学和实践的发展中发挥了重要作用，预计60%的与会者将是学生。来自国家科学基金会的资金将有助于鼓励和奖励学生，特别是来自代表不足的群体的学生，同时其中的一部分也将有助于将杰出的BME相关领导人邀请到会议上。为了成功地实现这一具体目标，积极推动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、生物物理学家和包括临床研究人员、医生和工业界成员在内的其他科学家的参与。通过这种方式，与只有BME社区参加相比，这次会议将产生更广泛的影响。这也将对该学科的现状以及未来产生广泛的影响，因为学生将受益于参加会议以及全体发言者和讲习班所介绍的材料。随后，本次会议的另一个主要目的是使会议上介绍的高质量科学信息易于向多个社会和广大公众提供。

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.