Chapter events and meetings

The officers are working on the next events. We are trying to have events at least twice a year. If you have any feedback, event ideas or possible speakers, please e-mail it to us.



Current events

Date Event description Location
Novmber 06, 2014 EMBS HealthTech Symposium, Fall 2014 Electric Magnetic Compatibility for Medical Devices featuring "Converting a Legacy Medical Device to a Wireless Medical Device" by Nicholas Abbondante, Intertek Welch Allyn Lodge


Past events

Date Event description Location
Novmber 06, 2013 EMBS HealthTech Symposium, Fall 2013 From Academia to Industry: the Story of an Entrepreneurial Psychiatrist featuring Andrew Kaufman, MD, SUNY Upstate Medical University and 3D Printing featuring Denis Cormier, PhD, RIT Welch Allyn Lodge
Novmber 29, 2012 EMBS HealthTech Symposium, Fall 2012 - "Entrepreneurship with emphasis to biomedical engineering" with Mikael Totterman and Richard Glaser, Innovocracy Welch Allyn Lodge
April 12, 2012 EMBS HealthTech Symposium, Spring 2012 - featuring Diane Dalecki, Ph.D., University of Rochester; Stephen A. Boppart, M.D., Ph.D., Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bioengineering, and Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Welch Allyn Lodge
April 20, 2011 EMBS HealthTech Symposium, Spring 2011 - featuring Al DiRienzo, Blue Highways; Susan Dubay, Welch Allyn; Alanna Abel, Razan Fashho, Thomas Law, Ayden Lee, Yushek Pun, Loai Allam, Francesca Coppola, Jenna Priola, Rachel Ogundiran, Tricia Wardwell, Catherine Wilcox, Students at Syracuse University Welch Allyn Lodge
November 11, 2010 EMBS Health Tech Symposium Fall 2010 - featuring Dr. Steven Goodman, VP Research Upstate Medical University, who will paint a broad picture of basic clinical research and Dr. Thomas Pearson, University of Rochester to share the Upstate New York Translational Research program and progress. Guest introduction by Heather Erikson of Medtech Welch Allyn Lodge
April 15, 2010 EMBS Health Tech Symposium Spring 2010 - featuring Salman Avestimehr, Cornell University, "Breaking the Barriers in Wireless Network Information Theory" and Gill R Tsouri, Rochester Institute of Technology, "Recent Advances in Wireless Body Sensor Networks for Physiological Monitoring" Welch Allyn Lodge
November 5, 2009 EMBS Health Tech Symposium Fall 2009 - featuring Jim Turner, Binghamton University, "Application of Flexible Electronics in Biology and Medicine" and Patrick Mather, Syracuse University, "Smart Polymers: From Shape Memory to Self-Healing" Welch Allyn Lodge
April 23, 2009 EMBS Health Tech Symposium Spring 2009
Presented Material:
"Silicon nanomembranes (pnc-SI): Molecular and Cellular applications", by Jim McGrath, University of Rochester
"Actuator Control Design for Safety Critcal Medical Applications", by Vince Socci, On Target Technology Development
Welch Allyn Lodge
November 6, 2008 EMBS Health Tech Symposium Fall 2008 - dedicated to Emergency Medicine and Clinical Engineering for Emergency Medicine
Featuring Dr. David Duggan and Dan Sommers
Presented Material:
"Prediction of patient risk for serious complications from administrative and clinical data" by Dr. David Duggan, SUNY Upstate Medical University
"Human Physiological Signals" by Dan Sommers, Welch Allyn
Also presented were a number of student poster sessions
Welch Allyn Lodge
April 10, 2008 EMBS Health Tech Symposium Spring 2008
Featuring Dr. Steven Day and Dr Ted Farrell
Presented material:
"A novel magnetically levitated axial flow left ventricular assist device" by Dr. Steven Day
"The Time is Now: Engineering opportunities in biology, medicine and economics" by Dr. Ted Farrell
Also presented were a number of student poster sessions
Welch Allyn Lodge
Oct 4, 2007 Syracuse EMBS Health Tech 2007
Featuring Dr. Robert Corona and Dr. John Fieschko
Presented material:
"Disruptive Innovations in Healthcare" by Dr. Robert Corona
"Innovations in Bioprocess Engineering in CNY" by Dr. John Fieschko
Concluding Remarks by Al DiRienzo
Welch Allyn Lodge