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The Association of Biomedical Engineers, Medical Engineers & Bioengineers will be hosting an education workshop to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Friday 2nd July 2021 at 10:00 am.

The workshop will explore the lessons learned for biomedical education in the lockdown. As part of the event, the panel will explore the benefits and challenges associated with remote learning of various biomedical engineering courses. The workshop will be chaired by Prof Kawal Rhode from King’s College London and is being organised in partnership with Prof Manos Drakakis from Imperial College London. Please find a copy of the programme below.

The event will be held on MS Teams and is free to attend. Use this link to join the event: BioMedEng Remote Learning Workshop.

Following on from our successful launch which included a panel discussion on ‘The Bioengineering Response to the Global Pandemic’, we are publishing a collection of articles with the Open Access journal – Frontiers in Medical Technology. The collection will capture the bioengineering response and activity on COVID-19 from research groups in the UK and around the world.

The collection is available online and titled: The Bioengineering Response to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, and the editors are Prof Alicia El Haj – University of Birmingham, Prof Anthony Bull – Imperial College London and Prof Rebecca Shipley – University College London.

The collection will bring together high-level manuscripts from international experts, with the main aim to create an E-Book compilation. Manuscript contributions can be of different types and the deadline for submissions is currently set to 31^st March 2021.

For more information, please contact medicaltechnology@frontiersin.org

The official launch of the Association of Biomedical Engineers, Medical Engineers and Bioengineers took place on 14th September 2020. You can watch a recording of the launch here. Details of the event and a copy of the invitation is in the previous news article below.

You are cordially invited to attend the official launch of the Association of Biomedical Engineers, Medical Engineers and Bioengineers (BioMedEng Association).

The event will take online on Monday 14th 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.

Please hold the date in your calendar and find a copy of the programme below.

Registration link (Eventbrite)

Programme

15:00	Welcome Prof Anthony Bull, Inaugural Chair of Trustees
15:05	Bioengineering Societies in the UK – the earlier days Tom Miller, Researcher – History of Academic Bioengineering
15:10	Background/History Prof Peter Weinberg, Founder and Past Chair, UK Bioengineering Society
15:20	Launch Address Dr Hayaatun Sillem, CEO, Royal Academy of Engineering
15:35	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 Prof David James, COVID Antibody Tests, University of Sheffield Prof Rebecca Shipley, UCL-Ventura CPAP, University College London Dr Sophie Cox, Personalised PPE, University of Birmingham Dr Joseph Sherwood, JamVent, Imperial College London Prof Sebastien Ourselin, AI Diagnostics for COVID, King’s College London Prof Molly Stevens, Technology for very Early Diagnosis, Imperial College London
16:50	Closing Remarks and announcement of BioMedEng22 and BioMedEng23 Prof Anthony Bull, Inaugural Chair of Trustees

Remember to register for this event with Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/3hbTX76

Institutions interested in hosting the BioMedEng Conference in September 2022 should complete the form linked below and send to g.tetteh@imperial.ac.uk by 31^st July 2020.

BioMedEng22 proposal form (MS Word 876kB)