This month's update serves to draw your attention to an event that we are very excited to be part of: on Tuesday 29th April, we will be hosting an event with the IMechE Biomedical Engineering Association (BmEA) that has been in planning for some time.
Engineering the future of Biomedical Engineering
by Professor Sir Michael Brady FRS FREng FMedSci
Tuesday 29 April 2014
5:30pm for 6pm (followed by a networking reception)
One Birdcage Walk
Westminster
London
SW1H 9JJ
It is hard to think of someone more committed to the advancement and practical application of engineering within healthcare than this speaker. As a measure of his committment to the field, Mike decided to mark his retirement from the post of Professor of Information Engineering at Oxford a few years ago by taking up a new professorship in Oncological Imaging, also at Oxford. He is a natural and gifted public speaker who has a deserved reputation for enthusing his audiences, students and colleagues to go out and solve real problems in biomedical and healthcare engineering.
This lecture is the first of what we hope will be a series of joint initiatives with the BmEA and other closely-related groups from other institutions and it goes without saying that I hope you can attend while guaranteeing you that it will be a though-provoking and highly enjoyable evening.
On a separate note, we're also a couple of weeks away from the committee meeting when we decide our programme of events for the year beginning October 2014 so please get in touch if there are events that you would like us to support or help you organise in that time frame.
Finally, I urge you to keep an eye out for the upcoming edition of IET Member News which includes a piece on last November's Healthcare Awards.
I look forward to seeing you on the 29th of April!
Dr Peter Bannister, CEng
Chairman, Healthcare Technologies Network
prbannister@theiet.org