BME COURSE BOOK CURRICULA VITAE OF LECTURERS

Curricula Vitae of Lecturers

Name

Topic

Affiliation

Ch. Provatidis
T. Deliyannis

- Applications of Physics in Medicine

National Technical University of Athens, Greece
University of Patras, Greece

D. Synetos

K. Gyftopoulos

- Biology & Biochemistry

- Anatomy

University of Patras, Greece

University of Patras, Greece

E. Kouvelas

G. Kostopoulos

- Physiology & Pathophysiology

University of Patras, Greece

University of Patras, Greece

F. Krokos

N. Pallikarakis

- Quality Management
- Research Methodology

ELOT, Greece
University of Patras, Greece

T. Deliyannis
V. Anastassopoulos

- Electronics in Medicine
- Basics on Signal Processing

University of Patras, Greece
University of Patras, Greece

Clinical Engineering

J. Barbenel

- Tissue Mechanics

- Biocompatible Materials

University of Strathclyde, UK

R. Puers

K. Filos

Th. Misaridis

M. Bracale

- Biomedical Instrumentation

   1. Biosensors

   2. Life Support - Patient Monitoring

   3. Ultrasounds

   4. Active Implantable Devices

University of Leuven, Belgium

University of Patras, Greece

National Technical University of Athens, Greece

University of Naples, Italy

J. Cornelis

I. Buliev

-Medical Imaging

   1. Instrumentation & Measurements

   2. Image Processing & Analysis

VUB, Brussels, Belgium

University of Varna, Bulgaria

R. Stagni

N. Pallikarakis
Z. Bliznakov

- Non-Linear Biomechanics

- Measurement of Non-electrical Parameters in the Human Body

University of Bologna, Italy

University of Patras, Greece

A. Santos

E. Nyssen

- Biomedical Signal Processing

- Pattern Recognition

University Politecnica, Madrid, Spain

VUB, Brussels, Belgium

D. Koutsouris

P. Cristea

- Health Care Telematics

- Neural Networks

National Technical University of Athens, Greece

University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

N. Pallikarakis
Z. Bliznakov
E. Valchinov

- Clinical Engineering

University of Patras, Greece
University of Patras, Greece
University of Patras, Greece

M. Kekomaki

- Health Care Technology Assessment

Helsinki University, Finland

Curriculum

Vitae

Last Name               Provatidis

First Name               Christoforos

Nationality               Greek

Organization            National Technical University of Athens

		http://users.ntua.gr/cprovat/pages/cv_en.htm

Curriculum

Vitae

Last Name               Deliyannis

First Name               Theodore

Nationality               Greek

Date of Birth             1936

Position                   Professor of Electronics

Organization            University of Patras

Department              Physics

Address                   University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Tel.                         +30 61 991868

Fax.                        +30 61 997456

E-mail.                    deliyan@physics.upatras.gr

DEGREES

Bsc (Physics), PhD (London)

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

Analog and Digital Signal Processing, Circuit Design, Devices for Handicapped Persons

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFEREED JOURNALS (number):

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH PEER REVIEWED

BOOKS

One book in three volumes under the title "Electronics' and one on "Exercises in Electronics" (All in Greek)

Also the book "Continuous-Time Active filter Design" CRC Press, 1999 with co-authors Y. Sun and J. K. Fidler.

MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES

Fellow IEE, C. Eng., Member IEEE

MAIN ACTIVITIES / DISTINCTIONS

Teaching, Research

Curriculum

Vitae

Last Name               Synetos

First Name               Dionisios

Nationality               Greek

Date of Birth             1950

Position                   Professor

Organization            University of Patras

Department              Biochemistry

Address                   261 10 Patras, Greece

Tel.                         +30 61 996125

Fax.                        +30 61 997690

E-mail                     dsynetos@med.upatras.gr

DEGREES

Biology, University of Athens, Greece

Ph.D. Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Great Britain

Ph.D. Thesis: Purification and nature of corticotrophin releasing factor from porcine hypothalamus

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

The role of ribosomal proteins and rRNA in the control of the accuracy of translation. Studies on protein synthesis in vitro with the aid of antibiotics.

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED JOURNAL

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH PEER REVIEWED

BOOKS

MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES

- Endocrinological Society of Great Britain

- British Biochemical Society

Last name               GYFTOPOULOS

First name               KOSTIS

Nationality               GREEK

Date of Birth             1968

Position                   ASS. PROFESSOR

Organization            DEPT. OF ANATOMY, UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS

Address                   26500 RION, PATRAS, GREECE

Tel.                         00302610 992391

E-mail                     kogyftop@yahoo.gr

 DEGREES

·         MD,  1992, UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS MEDICAL SCHOOL

·         PhD, 1999, UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS MEDICAL SCHOOL

·         SPECIALIST IN UROLOGY, 1999, PATRAS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

·         CLINICAL FELLOW IN PAEDIATRIC UROLOGY,1999-2000, SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, UK

·         CLINICAL FELLOW IN PAEDIATRIC UROLOGY, 2001-2002, SOPHIA’S CHILDREN HOSPITAL, ROTTERDAM, NL

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

·         Molecular Anatomy of geniturinary system

·         Basic and clinical research in Prostate Cancer (angiogenesis, lymphangiogenesis, apoptosis, differentiation and sex hormone receptors, retinoids).

·         Basic and clinical research in Erectile dysfunction and Infertility

·         Basic and clinical research in Voiding dysfunction (BOO, detrusor overactivity)

·         Endothelin axis in varicose spermatic veins

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED JOURNALS

PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNAL SUPPLEMENTS

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES

· European Association of Urology.

· Hellenic Urological Association

· Εndourological Society – associate member

· European Society for Paediatric Urology – associate member

· World Federation of Societies for Paediatric Urology (WOFSPU-Council Member).

· International Pediatric Endosurgery Group (IPEG)

Curriculum

Vitae

Last Name               Kouvelas

First Name               Elias

Nationality               Greek

Date of Birth             18-06-1938

Position                   Professor

Organization            University of Patras

Department              Medical, Basic Medical Sciences II

Address                   265 00 Rio, Patras, Greece

DEGREES

M.D. University of Athens (Greece)

Ph.D.(Physiology)University of Athens (Greece)

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

Excitatory amino acid receptors in developing and adult brain.

Neurotransmitter systems in brain degenerative diseases.

Cell transplantations in experimental models of Parkinson's disease and cerebellum ataxias.

Transduction systems in specific brain regions.

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED JOURNAL (number)

Many

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH PEER REVIEWED

Many

BOOKS

MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES

International Brain Research Organizator

European Neuroscience Association

International Society of Developmental Neuroscience.

Society for Behavioural Neuroendocrinology.

Greek Society for Neuroscience.

MAIN ACTIVITIES / DISTINCTIONS

1982-85 and 1989-92                               Member of the Scientific Council of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute.

1987-91 and 1994-1996            Member of the National Advisory Council of Research of Greece.

1990-91                                  President of the Hellenic Society for Neurosciences.

1994-Present                          Member of the Scientific Council of the Alexander Fleming Research centre.

1991-94                                  Vice Rector of the University of Patras.

1988-91 and 1994-97               Dean of the School of Health Sciences of the University of Patras.

Curriculum

Vitae

Last Name               Kostopoulos

First Name               Georgios

Nationality               Greek

Date of Birth             1949

Position                   Professor

Organization            University of Patras

Department              Medical, Basic Medical Sciences II

Address                   265 00 Rio, Patras

Tel.                         +30 61 997825, 992389

Fax.                        +30 61 997215

E-mail                     gkkostop@med.upatras.gr

DEGREES

M.D.: Medical School, National University of Athens, Greece

Ph.D. Health Sciences - Department of Physiology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Ph.D. Thesis: Physiological and Pharmacological Studies on Synaptic transmission in the Mammalian Brain

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

Excitability and synaptic transmission in normal, developing and aging brain

Cellular mechanisms of learning

Epileptogenesis

Mathematical modelling of nervous system, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials

New methods to teach Neuroscience

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED JOURNAL (number)

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH PEER REVIEWED

BOOKS

4 books, 13 chapters in books

MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES

American Physiological Society

International Brain Research Organization

European Neuroscience Society

European Biomedical Research Association (founding member, 1994 -)

MAIN ACTIVITIES:

Teaching Neurophysiology and Brain Research

DISTINCTIONS:

President, Hellenic Soc. for Neuroscience, 1988-90

Governing Council, International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), 1990 -1999

Publications Committee, IBRO, 1990 - 1999

Fellowship, Medical Research Council of Canada (MRC), 1975-79

Scholarship, MRC, 1979 - 1982

MICHAEL PRICE (for Epilepsy Research), 1983

Visiting Scientist Award, MRC, 1987 - 88

Last name               KROKOS

First name               Fragoulis

Nationality               Greek

Date of Birth             25 October 1964

Position                   Head of Organization and Development Department, 

Standardization Division

Organization            ELOT, Hellenic Organization for Standardization

Address                   Acharnon 313, 111 45 Athens, GREECE

Tel.                         +30 210 2120125 (office), +30 210 6009135 (home)

E-mail                     fkrokos@ath.forthnet.gr

DEGREES

BSc in Chemistry, University of Athens, Greece

MSc in Analytical Chemistry, University of East Anglia, UK

PhD in Analytical Chemistry – Food Chemistry, University of East Anglia, UK

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

Quality / Quality Management in Healthcare

Food Safety Management

Risk Management

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED JOURNALS (number)

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MAIN ACTIVITIES / DISTINCTIONS

Project Manager and Member of National Standardization Committee "HEALTH"

Active involvement in the works of the European standardization committee CEN/TC 362 "Project Committee - Healthcare services - Quality management systems"

Lead auditor for Quality Management Systems / Food Safety Management Systems

Short Term International Expert on Standardization

Curriculum

Vitae

Last Name               Pallikarakis

First Name               Nicolas

Nationality               Greek

Date of Birth            1948

Position                   Professor

Organization            University of Patras

Department              Medical Physics

Address                   Dept. of Medical Physics

                                265 00 Rio, Patras, Greece

Tel.                          +30 2610 997781, 997702

Fax.                         +30 2610 992496

E-mail.                     nipa@upatras.gr

DEGREES

B.Sc., Physics, Aristoteleio University, Thessaloniki, Greece

M.Sc., Physics/Analysis, "Aston"/Birmingham University, England

Certificat, Biophysics, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium

Ph.D., University of Liege, Liege, Belgium

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

Biomedical Engineering

Medical Physics

Medical Informatics

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BOOKS

MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES

IFMBE, EAMBES, IAMBE, IEEE

MAIN ACTIVITIES / DISTINCTIONS

-  National delegate for the Medical Device Standing Committee (DG III).

-  National delegate to the Health Care Telematics Working Party (DG XIII).

-  Elected member of the Board and President of the Clinical Engineering Division (CED) of the IFMBE (1991-97).

-  Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Biomedical Technology (INBIT) in Patras.
-  Member of the International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering

Last Name               Anastassopoulos

First Name               Vassilis

Nationality               Greek

Date of Birth             6-8-1958

Position                   Professor of Electronics

Organization            University of Patras

Department              Physics

Address                   Electronics Lab, Physics Dept., 265 00 Rio, Patras, Greece

Tel.                         +30 2610 996147

Fax.                        +30 2610 997456

E-mail                     vassilis@physics.upatras.gr

DEGREES

Ph.D., in Electronics, B. Sc in Physics

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS

Digital Systems, Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, Signal Detection, Remote Sensing.

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED JOURNAL (number) 30

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH PEER REVIEWED 40

BOOKS In Greek 4, in English 1

MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES

IEEE, Pattern Recognition, IEEE Remote Sensing

MAIN ACTIVITIES / DISTINCTIONS

-          Advisor in AFC ESA committee

-          Associate Editor in Pattern Recognition Journal

-          Associate Editor in IEEE CAS-II

Curriculum

Vitae

Last name               Barbenel

First name               Joseph

Nationality               British

Date of Birth             02-01-1931

Position                   Emeritus Professor

Organization            University of Strathclyde

Address                   151 Maxwell Drive

                               Glasgow G41 5AE UK

Tel.                         +44 141 427 0765

DEGREES

Bachelor of Dental Surgery (University of London) 1960

Bachelor of Science (University of St. Andrews) 1966

Master of Science (Bioengineering) University of Strathclyde 1967

Doctor of Philosophy (Bioengineering) University of Strathclyde 1979

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

Biomedical systems and materials, particularly the natural body cells, tissues and organs.

Interactions between mechanical and biological effects. Biomaterial development and evaluation.

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED JOURNAL 109

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH PEER REVIEWED

Unlisted

BOOKS

5 (55 chapters in other books)

MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES

EAMBES, Past Chair, Div of Societies

IFMBE, Chair of Constitution & Bylaws Committee

IUPESM, Member of Administrative Council

International Faculty for Artificial Organs, Professor

MAIN ACTIVITIES / DISTINCTIONS

1960:          Dental House Surgeon, London Hospital, London U.K.

1960 - 62:  Lieutenant/Captain, Royal army dental Corps, Malaya

1962 - 63:  General Dental Practice, London

1963 - 66:  Student, University of St. Andrews

1966 - 67:  Student, Bioengineering Unit, University of Strathclyde

1967 - 69:  Lecturer, Department of Dental Prosthetics, Dental School and Hospital, University of Dundee

1970 - 2001: Bioengineering Unit, University of Strathclyde

Head of Department (1992-98)

Vice Dean (Research) Faculty of Engineering (1997-2001)

DISTINCTIONS

Fellow of:

Inst of Physics, Inst of Biology, Inst of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, Royal Society of Edinburgh

President's Medal, Society of Cosmetic Scientists (1994)

Inaugural Paul Beiersdoft Lecture, ISBS Zurich (1996)

Lifetime Achievement Award, European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, 2002

Founding Fellow, EAMBES

Curriculum

Vitae

Last Name               Puers

First Name               Robert (Bob)

Nationality               Belgian

Date of Birth             1953

Position                   Professor

Organization            Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Department              Electrotechnics

Address                   Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

                               Kasteelparrk Arenberg 10

                               B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee, Belgium

Tel.                         +32 16 321082

Fax                         +32 16 321975

E-mail                     puers@esat.kuleuven.be

DEGREES

B.Sc. Engineering, State High School for Technical Education, Gent, Belgium

M.Sc. Engineering, K.U. Leuven, Belgium

M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering, K.U. Leuven, Belgium

Ph.D. K.U. Leuven, Belgium

Ph.D. Thesis: Integrated pressure sensor interfaces for telemetry purposes

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

- Biomedical implant systems (monitoring and stimulation)

- Transducer and actuator principles

- Mechanical sensors  (pressure, accelerometers, strain gauges, temperature,...)

- Silicon micromachining

- Packaging an interconnection techniques (hybrids, hermetic and biocompatible sealing,...)

- Biotelemetry (inductive power delivery, bi-directional data communication)

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED JOURNAL (number)

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH PEER REVIEWED

170

BOOKS
2 - as author
5 - as editor

52 - publications in book

MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES
1982 - International Society of Hybrid Microelectronics (ISHM)

1986 - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) (senior member)

1990 - Steering Committee of Eurosensors (European Conference on Solid State Transducers)
1991 - Steering Committee of Transducers (International Conference on Solid State Sensors and Actuators)
1995 - Council of the International Society on Biotelemetry (ISOB)
1996 - Council Member of the Microelectronic and Packaging Society (IMAPS)
1997 - Editor - in - Chief of the IOP Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
2001 - Fellow of the Institute of Physics, London
2004 - General Chair of the Eurosensors conferences

MAIN ACTIVITIES / DISTINCTIONS

Our main research aims at the development of extremely miniaturised sensors, which are linked with intelligent interfaces to create wireless communication systems. Typical applications are in the biomedical field. Three main areas of research are focused on: sensors, sensor interfaces with intelligent signal conditioning and telemetry systems. Teaching the following courses: 'Production methods for electronic systems', 'Biomedical measurements and stimulation', 'Microsystems' and 'Seminars on sensorfabrication'.

Curriculum

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Last Name               Filos

First Name               Kriton S.

Nationality               Greek

Date of Birth             1956

Position                   Associate Professor of Anaesthesiology and Critical

                               Care Medicine

Organization            University of Patras

Department              Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Address                   265 00 Rio, Patras

Tel.                         +30 2610 999.341

Fax.                        +30 2610 993.947

E-mail                     filosks@med.upatras.gr

DEGREES

MD, School of Medicine 1980, University of Hamburg, Germany

Doctorate, School of Medicine 1984, University of Hamburg, Germany

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

Experimental and clinical research in

- Monitoring

- Cardiovascular Physiology

- Critical Care Medicine

- Acute and Chronic Pain Management

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MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES

-ESCTAIC - European Society for Computing and Technology in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

-ESICM - European Society of Intensive Care Medicine

-IASP - International Association for the Study of Pain

-ESA - European Society of Anaesthesiologists

-ESSR - European Society for Surgical Research

MAIN ACTIVITIES / DISTINCTIONS

- Referee: Journal ANESTHESIA & ANALGESIA

- Editorial Board Member: ACTA ANAESTHESIOLOGICA HELLENICA

- Visiting Professor, G. Washington University, St. Louis - MO, U.S.A., 1995

- KOKKALIS PRICE (for Research on Oxygen Transport in Exp. Shock)

Curriculum

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Last Name               Misaridis

First Name               Thanassis

Nationality               Greek

Thanassis Misaridis received the B.E. and M.S. degrees in 1992 from the National Technical University of Athens in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received the M.S. degree in 1997 from the Pennsylvania State University in Bioengineering, and the Ph.D. degree in 2001 from the Technical University of Denmark. He has been a research scientist at the Laboratoire Ondes et Acoustique in Paris, France until 2003. He is currently a collaborator of Kretz GE Medical Systems in conjunction with the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. His current research interests include coded excitation in medical ultrasound, array processing, synthetic aperture, non-linear imaging and underwater acoustics.

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Last Name               Bracale

First Name               Marcello

Nationality               Italian

Date of Birth             24^th August 1939

Position                   full Professor

Organization            University of Naples

Department              Electronic Engineering and Telecommunication

Address                   Via Claudio, 21- 80123 Napoli

Tel.                         +39 081 5938522

Fax.                        +39 081 768 3804

E-mail.                    bracale@unina.it

DEGREES

Electronical Engineering

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

Electronical and biological instrumentation; biosignal and data analysis; health care system and management; health telematics and telemedicine.

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MAIN ACTIVITIES / DISTINCTIONS

Academic Activities:

Since 1976 he was full professor in Applied Electronics and from 1980 up to the present, he has been full professor in Biomedical Engineering, directing the BME Unit at the Electronic Engineering Dept. of the Univ. "Federico II" of Naples.

At present he is also professor in "Automation and Organization of Health Care System".

He also teaches Biomedical courses in the Post-graduate Schools of the Faculties of Medicine and Surgery at the Universities of Naples.

He directs in Naples the "Research Unit in Medical and Rehabilitation Engineering" of Italian National Research Council.

He was nominated Professor Honoris Causa at the Technical University of Cluj Napoca (Romania) Faculty of Electronic Engineering.

Prof. M. Bracale received the “Honoris Causa Degree” in Medicine and Pharmacy from the University of Iasi, Romania.

He is President of the Biomedical Engineering Course at the University of Naples.

Extra-Academic Activities:

He is the General Secretary of the "Associazione Italiana di Ingegneria Medica e Biologica" (AIIMB) Italian Member Society affiliated to I.F.M.B.E. (International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering), where from 1986 to 1991 he acted as Chairman of the Developing Countries Committee and the National Secretaries Committee. He is a board member of the "Division for Health Care Technology Assessment".

He acted as an expert Councilor in Clinical Engineering for Developing Countries on behalf of WHO, of Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of "Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche" CNR. In 1985 and 1986 he had spent a period in Ethiopia, Yemen and Kenya to organise and direct an International and Technical course on the management and maintenance of medical equipment sponsored by WHO, IFMBE, DANIDA. In 1988 he was appointed director of an Italian project supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to organise Clinical Engineering Centers in Ethiopia.

He participated as expert member in the Commission of the European Committee DGXIII for the implementation of the 4th Framework Programme (1994-1998) of Advance Informatics in Medicine.

He took part in the IMPROVE and TREAD projects of the Commission of the European Committee DGXII. He participated as rapporteur for AUDIT of AIM'93 Project. He was the organizer and General Secretary of MEDICON'92 and Health Telematics '95 Conferences In Ischia (Napoli – Italy), financially supported by EC DGXIII. He was an evaluator of the Programme "Innovative Actions of Regional and Local Development (Article 10 of the ERDF Regulation) of DGXVI, May 1996. He has been appointed rapporteur of the Evaluating Group of the projects on Health Telenmatics 1994-1998, Brussell, October 1996. He was the co-ordinator of the EC Concerted Action TELEPLANS - Telemedicine for citizens (DGXIII).

He was nominated by the local Regional Minister as expert in the Regional Commission of Health Emergency. He has been appointed by Italian Ministry of Health responsible of sub-project 4 "Telemedicine for the Emergency" within the G7 global project on health care (1997). He is the leader of the telemedicine Island Project with the Local Health Unit Napoli 2. Since March 2000 he is responsible and co-ordinator of Clinical Engineering activities at Local Health Unit Napoli 2 (Electrical safety of medical devices and Evaluation plan of risks). He is nominated for the year 2002 Representative of the IFMBE in consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council at the United Nation (Vienna). In 2003 he has been elected as member of the Academic Division of the Directive Council of EAMBES " European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Science". He has been also nominated by the health Assessor of the Region "Prof. Rosalba Tufano" as component of " Gruppo Tecnico per l'elaborazione di uno schema organizzativo per l'assistenza cardiologica nell'ambito del SIRES-118" He has been reconfirm as representative of University of Naples FEDEICO II and delegate of the Rector of the Directive Council of I.M.TE.S " Istituto Mediterraneo per la Telematica in Sanità" and he has been appointed President of the Technical Scientific Committee of I.M.TE.S.

In 2003 Prof. Marcello Bracale has been elected Fellow of the International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Professional Activities:

He was Vice-President of the "Societa' Generale di Informatica" (SO.GE.I.). From 1990 to 1993 he was Regional President of the "Associazione Italiana Ospedalita' Privata" (AIOP) in Naples. He is a professional consultant of "Clinica Villalba", a private hospital; and of "Technical Data Control", a software house for Informatics Health Care Systems in Naples. He is scientific consultant of FINSIEL for the European Committee and for International and National activities in Telematics Health Care System. He is a member of the International and Italian Electrotechnical Commission-Technical Committee n.62: Electrical Equipment in Medical Practice, Sub-Committee 62D: Electromedical Equipment. He was appointed member of administration council of the CNETO (Centro Nazionale per l’Edilizia e la Tecnica Ospedaliera).

Scientific Activities:

His main fields of scientific and professional interest are: electronical and biological instrumentation; biosignal and data analysis; health care system and management; health telematics and telemedicine. At present he is author and co-author of 393 publications.

He is member of the Editorial Board of the following journals: Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (Peter Peregrinus Ltd, UK), Frontiers of Medical and Biological Engineering (VSP, NL),

Telemedicine and Telecare (Royal society of MEdicine Press, Ltd).

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Last Name               Cornelis

First Name               Jan

Nationality               Belgian

Date of Birth             17-10-1950

Position                   Professor of Electronics, Digital Image Processing and Medical Imaging,

                               Director of the IRIS   research group, Head of Dept. ETRO

Organization            Vrije Universiteit of Brussels, VUB

Department              ETRO, Electronics and Information Processing

Address                   Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel, Belgium

Tel.                         +32 2 6292931, 6292930

Fax.                        +32 2 6292883

E-mail.                    jpcornel@etro.vub.ac.be

DEGREES

Mechanical and Electrotechnical Civil Engineer 1973, VUB

Ph.D. in Applied Sciences 1980 - "Processing of Electrocardiological Signals: Body Surface Potential Mapping"

He is Professor in electronics, medical imaging and digital image processing at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel – VUB, director of the department of Electronics and Informatics – ETRO (http://www.etro.vub.ac.be/) at the Faculty of Engineering Sciences, and coordinator of the research group on image processing and machine vision - IRIS. Current research projects of the IRIS group include: various applications in medical vision, remote sensing, mine- and minefield detection, and design of algorithms and computer architectures for image processing. His current research interest is mainly concentrated in the area of image and video compression. He is also Consultant Professor at Northwestern Polytechnic University, NPU-Xi’an, China.

Since 2001, he got involved in management of research and innovation as Vice-rector for research of VUB, chairman of the VUB research council, chairman of the board for strategic research in support of innovation, Member of the Flemish Scientific Research Council, vice-chairman of the research council of the Brussels Capital Region, Member of the board of directors of the Interuniversity MicroElectronics Centre – IMEC in Leuven, Vice-president of the DISC (Decision, Information, Science, Communication) Institute ‑ the ICT knowledge centre of the Brussels Capital Region, Chairman of the board of directors BI3 (Brussels I3 NV) – the incubation fund of VUB.

Some key publications:

- Medical Image Processing

Wavelet based lossless compression of coronary angiographic images

A. Munteanu, J. Cornelis, P. Cristea.

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 272-281, 1999

A. Katartzis, H. Sahli, J. Cornelis, S. Fotopoulos, G. Panayiotakis, “A Model-based Technique for the Measurement of Skin Thickness in Mammography” Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, vol. 40 (2), pp. 153-162, 2002

- Video processing

A center-biased adaptive search algorithm for block motion estimation,

V. Christopoulos, J. Cornelis.

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 423-426, 2000

I. A. Salomie, A. Munteanu, A. Gavrilescu, G. Lafruit, P. Schelkens, R. Deklerck, J. Cornelis, “Meshgrid – A compact, multi-scalable and animation-friendly surface representation”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 14, no 7, pp. 950-966, July 2004.

J. Barbarien, A. Munteanu, F. Verdicchio, Y. Andreopoulos, J. Cornelis, P. Schelkens, “Scalable Motion Vector Coding” Electronics Letters, July 2004, Vol.40, Issue 15, pp. 932-934

- Mathematical modelling – inverse problems

The multipole approach to the inverse problem in electrocardiology: convergence of the multipole equivalent generator on the inhomogeneous body conductor

Patrick De Muynck, Jan Cornelis, L. Titomir.

Journal of the Society for Mathematical Biology, 62, 543-583 (1998)

- Image Compression

Lossless Integer Wavelet Transform

Steven Dewitte, Jan Cornelis.

IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 4 No. 6, pp. 158-160 (1997)

- Analog Circuit design

A novel charge amplifying technique

Johan Wulleman, Jan Cornelis

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research (SectionA-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT), 406 (3), 507-511 (1998)

- Image Reconstruction

Reconstruction of MR Images from Data Acquired on a General Non-Regular Grid by Pseudoinverse Calculation

R. Van De Walle, H. Barret, K. Myers, M. Altbach, B. Desplanques, A. Gmitro, J. Cornelis, I. Lemahieu

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol.9, No 12, pp. 1160-1167 (2000)

Image Analysis

A Model-Based Approach to the Automatic Extraction of Linear Features from Airborne Images

Antonis KATARTZIS, Hichem SAHLI, Veselin PIZURICA, Jan CORNELIS

IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 39 (9), 2073-2079 (2001)

Humanitarian Demining

H. Sahli, A.M.Bottoms, J. Cornelis (Editors) EUDEM2-SCOT-2003, “International Conference on Requirements and Technologies for the Detection, Removal and Neutralization of Landmines and UXO”, Volumes 1&2, 15-18 September 2003 – VUB, Brussels, Belgium

Curriculum

Vitae

Last Name               Ivan

First Name               Buliev

Nationality               Bulgarian

Date of Birth             1968

Organization            Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria

E-mail.                    ivangbuliev@gmail.com

DEGREES

M.Sc. Electronics, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria

M.Sc. Thesis: System for control of a three-coordinate robot

M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece

M.Sc. Thesis: Research, Design and Construction of an Audiometric Device

Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece

Ph.D. Thesis: Simulation and design of a C-arm based tomographic system for heart imaging

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

Digital signal- and image processing, Medical imaging, Control systems, Applied electronics

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED JOURNAL

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH PEER REVIEWED

Curriculum

Vitae

Last Name               Stagni

First Name               Rita

Nationality               Italian

Date of Birth             1974

Position                   Assistant Professor

Organization            University of Bologna

Department              Electronics, Informatics, and Computer Science

Address                   DEIS

                               Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136, Bologna, Italy

Tel.                         +39 051 2093841, +39 0547 339240

Fax.                        +39 051 2093073

E-mail                     rita.stagni@unibo.it

DEGREES

M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Ph.D. , Biomedical Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

Musculoskeletal Biomechanics

Human joint modelling

Instrumentation and protocols for human motion analysis

Functional evaluation of human motion

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED JOURNAL (number):

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH PEER REVIEWED

BOOK CHAPTERS

Curriculum

Vitae

Last name               Bliznakov

First name               Zhivko

Nationality               Bulgarian

Date of Birth             02/12/1973

Position                   Postdoctoral researcher

Organization            University of Patras

Address                   Laboratory of Medical Physics

Tel.                         +30-2610-997702

E-mail                     jivko@upatras.gr

DEGREES

Diploma Engineer in Electrical Engineering

MSc in Biomedical Engineering

PhD in Biomedical Engineering

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

Clinical Engineering

Biomedical Technology

Medical Informatics

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED JOURNALS

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

MAIN ACTIVITIES / DISTINCTIONS

Technology Management in Hospitals

Medical Devices Vigilance, Patient Safety, Adverse Incidents and Recalls

Medical Equipment Management Systems

Medical Software Applications

Database Management

Curriculum

Vitae

Last Name               Santos

First Name               Andrès

Nationality               Spanish

Date of Birth             1958

Position                   Associate Professor

Organization            Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Department              Ingeniería Electrónica

Address                   ETSI Telecomunicación

                               Cuidad Universitaria

                               E-28040 Madrid, Spain

Tel.                         +34 91 3366827

Fax                         +34 91 3367323

E-mail                     andres@die.upm.es

DEGREES

M. Eng. Telecommunication, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Ph.D. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Ph.D. Thesis: Real -Time Multivoice Text-to-Speech Conversion System

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

Medical image analysis and processing (mainly cardiac ultrasound and functional imaging), Biomedical signal processing, Biomedical engineering

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED JOURNAL (number)

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH PEER REVIEWED

BOOKS

MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES

-  IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. And Signal Proc. Soc.

-  European Society for Engineering and Medicine (ESEM)

-  Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering (included in Int. Fed. Med. Biol. Eng. IFMBE)

MAIN ACTIVITIES / DISTINCTIONS

International Research Fellow at SRI International (California-USA). 1987-88.

Director of a postgraduate course on Design of Electronic Systems (Univ. Politécnica Madrid). 1992-94.

Co-ordinator of several national and international projects on medical image processing.

Curriculum

Vitae

Last Name               Nyssen

First Name               Edgard

Nationality               Belgian

Date of Birth             1953

Position                   Lecturer

Organization            Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Department              Electronics and Information Processing

Address                   Pleinlaan 2, B – 1050, Brussels, Belgium

Tel.                         +32 2 629 2930 (secretariat)

Fax.                        +32 2 629 2883

E-mail                     ehnyssen@etro.vub.ac.be

DEGREES

M.Sc. Mechanics and Electronics Engineering (option: Electrotechnique), VUB, Belgium;

Postgraduate degree in Computer Science, VUB, Belgium;

Ph.D. Applied Sciences, VUB, Belgium.

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

Pattern recognition, software engineering, statistical data analysis.

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED JOURNAL (number, preceding January 2006)

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH PEER REVIEWED (preceding January 2006)

BOOKS

3 (course notes at the VUB)

MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES

IEEE Computer Society;

MAIN ACTIVITIES / DISTINCTIONS

Treasurer of the organizing committee of the "2nd International Conference on Visual Psychophysics and Medical Imaging" (VUB - Brussels July 2-3, 1981);

Member of the conference board of the "North Sea Conference on Biomedical Engineering - 90" (University of Antwerp, Nov. 19-22, 1990);

Secretary of the Belgian UNIX systems Users Group (BUUG), affiliated to EurOpen (European Forum for Open Systems) (1991-1994);

Secretariat management of the Belgian National Research Fund's Research Community on Image Processing Systems, starting from September 1997 till December 2005;

Member of the program committee of the international workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR) since 2000;

External Referee of the committee for Technical Sciences for the Czech Science Foundation since 2001;

Coordinator of the postgraduate training program on Biomedical Engineering at the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel since october 2003;

Member of the organising committee and the steering committee of the Conference on “Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems” - 2004 (Brussels, Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2004).

Curriculum

Vitae

Last Name Koutsouris

First Name             Dimitris

Nationality              Greek

Organization           National Technical University of Athens

http://www.ece.ntua.gr/index.php?option=com_dep&task=profile&id=17&Itemid=62&lang=en

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Vitae

Last Name Cristea

First Name               Paul Dan

Nationality               Romanian

Date of Birth             13-02-1941

Position                                  Professor of Electrotechnics, Faculty of Control Systems and Computer Science

Organization            "Politehnica" University of Bucharest

Department              Biomedical Engineering Center

Address                   Splaiul Independenþei no. 313,

                               060041 Bucharest, Romania

Tel.                         +40 21 316 95 69

Fax.                        +40 21 316 95 68

E-mail.                    pcristea@dsp.pub.ro

DEGREES

Graduate of Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest (now, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest), Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Physics Engineering Division (as head of the series 1962), University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics (1969). PhD in Technical Physics, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest (1970).

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

• Signal and Image Digital Processing,

• Genomic Signals,

• Neural Networks,

• Circuit and Signal Theory,

• E-Learning,

• Evolutionary Intelligent Agents,

• Discrete Event Dynamic Systems,

• Computerized Medical Equipment,

• Industrial Measurement Equipment,

• Advanced Electrical Batteries.

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED JOURNALS (number)

39, 11 patents, over 50 research contracts

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH PEER REVIEW

BOOKS

MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES

• Senior Member of the IEEE Society (1992),

• Member of the American Physical Society (1975),

• Member of the Romanian Scientists Association (1983),

• Founding Member of the FULBRIGHT Association (1991),

• Founding Member of the INTERNET Association (1992),

• Founding Member of the Black Sea Union for Applied Electromagnetism (1993), head of the Romanian Section,

• Founding Member of the MULTIMEDIA Association (2000),

• Founding Member of the BIOINFORMATICS Society (2002),

• Member of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2003

MAIN ACTIVITIES / DISTINCTIONS

Teaching activity at the Polytechnic Institute of  Bucharest, sequentially holding all the academic positions, from Assistant (1962) to full Professor (1990);

Vice-Rector of the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest (1990-1992);

Adviser of the Secretary of State at the Department of Science, Ministry of Education and Science (1990 - 1992);

Scientific adviser for Master and Ph.D theses in the fields of Electrical Engineering and Electronics;

"Constantin Miculescu" - Romanian Academy Award for Scientific Research in Experimental Physics, for the work on the Photovoltaic Effect in Semiconductor Thin Films (1981),

"Traian Vuia" - Romanian Academy Award for Research in Technical Sciences, for the work on the Electrochemical Batteries with Thermal Triggering (1989).

Last name               Valchinov

First name               Emil

Nationality               Bulgarian

Date of Birth             06 April 1972

Position                   Postdoctoral researcher

Organization            Department of Medical Physics

Address                   Department of Medical Physics, University of Patras, 26 500 Patras, GREECE

Tel.                         +30 2610 996 114

E-mail                     emil@upatras.gr

DEGREES

M.Sc. Degree in Electronics

Ph.D. Degree in Biomedical Engineering

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

- Biopotential amplifiers, electrodes and sensors

- Biomedical instrumentation

- Medical lasers

- Electrical safety of medical devices

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED JOURNALS

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

MAIN ACTIVITIES / DISTINCTIONS

1. Design and Development of Biomedical Instrumentation:

-          Biomedical Electrodes and Sensors

-          Biopotential Amplifiers

-          Wireless Monitoring Technologies

-          Data Acquisition Systems

-          Medical Lasers

-          Electrical Safety Testers and Analyzers

2. Electrical Safety and Quality Control of Medical Devices

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Vitae

Last name               Kekomaki

First name               Martti

Nationality               Finnish

Date of Birth             29.04.1940

Position                   Professor of Healthcare Administration and Management, retired

Organization            (University of Helsinki, Dept. of Public Health)

Address                   Humalistonkatu 17 as 11, FIN 00250 Helsinki, Finland

Tel.                         +358-50-358 1448

E-mail                     martti.kekomaki@fimnet.fi

DEGREES

M.D.(1965), Ph.D. (1969), M.S.(AdmMed, UWis, Madison) (1989)

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

International Health Policy, Health Economics, Evaluation of Health Care Technology

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFERRED JOURNALS

(Between 1965-2005) some 130

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

More numerous

BOOKS

None during recent years

MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES

No more active

MAIN ACTIVITIES / DISTINCTIONS

Teaching health economics in ca. 8 different national programs; columnist and editor in Finnish professional journals etc.

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