The event will be held online on Monday 14 September 2020 at 15.00, with a launch address from Dr Hayaatun Sillem, CEO, Royal Academy of Engineering at 15.15, and a panel session at 15.50. The panel will include leading academics and engineers, industrial executives, key government officials and NHS professionals. We will broadcast the event to the wider UK bioengineering community virtually via Microsoft Teams.
The BioMedEng Association has been operating as an unincorporated entity for a while but has now opted to formalise its arrangements and attain charitable status. Under a variety of similar names, the organisation has held the annual UK bioengineering conference for over ten (10) years. These meetings have grown to become the UK’s largest gathering of Biomedical Engineers, Medical Engineers and Bioengineers.
Our incorporation with the Charity Commission is now complete, and we are keen to start welcoming members to join the association, hence our official launch.
Please find a copy of the draft programme below.
To attend the event, register here for free on Eventbrite. The joining instructions will be sent to registered attendees nearer to the event.
15.00 – Welcome
Prof Anthony Bull, Inaugural Chair of Trustees
15.05 – Background/History
Prof Peter Weinberg, Founder and Past Chair, UK Bioengineering Society
15.15 – Launch Address
Dr Hayaatun Sillem, CEO, Royal Academy of Engineering
15.30 – Official Launch
BioMedEng Council Rep – Prof Claudia Mazza, University of Sheffield
15.45 – Association Update – BioMedEng21
Prof Alicia El Haj, Trustee, BioMedEng Association
15.50 – Debate/Panel Discussion – “ The Bioengineering Response to the Global Pandemic”
Moderator – Dr Helen Meese
Vice Chair, Biomedical Engineering Division, The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)
Panel –
1. Prof David James, COVID Antibody Tests, University of Sheffield
2. Prof Rebecca Shipley, UCL-Ventura CPAP, University College London
3. Dr Sophie Cox, Personalised PPE, University of Birmingham
4. Dr Joseph Sherwood, JamVent, Imperial College London
5. Prof Sebastien Ourselin, AI Diagnostics for COVID, King’s College London
Other panel members TBC
16.50 Closing Remarks and announcement of BioMedEng22 and BioMedEng23
Prof Anthony Bull, Inaugural Chair of Trustees