Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society A,,'ards 2002

There were no nominations this year for the 2002EMBS Outstancing Chapter Award.

AWARDEES

geographic doman. Among the doamentationconsidered in seleding the winrWng d\apter willbe meeting reports and newsletters. The award ispresented to the Chapter, ~ose ExecutiveCommittee determines ~im in<i\lidua msnberof the mapter will travel to the Society's AnnualInternational Conference to receive theaward on behaf of the d\apter.

NOMINAll0N: The awardee will be seleded bythe Member and Chapter Adivities Committee ofthe EMB Soaety. No nomination is needed.

RECOGNI110N: RemburS8nent of up to $1,500(intercominental travel) or $1,000(intracontinental travel) for transportation andhotel accommodations at the EMBS AnnualInternational Conference. The Chapter will berecognized at the conference's awardspresentation cersnony.

2001: No Nominations2000: No Nominations1999: Twin Cities1998: Baltimore Chapter1997: Houston Chapter1994: Dayton Chapter1993: Mexico Chapter1992: Santa Clara Valley (California) Cha~er

DESCRIPTION: For achievement in deliveringservices to members of an EMBS chapter duringthe previous calendar year.

CRITERIA: A sin~e EMBS Chapter will beselected eadl year. based on the quality andquantity of the services provided to EMBSmembers in that Cha~er's

Tha-e were no awardees for the 2002 EMBS Student Design Ccmpetition Award.

DESCRIPTION: For outstanding studentad1iev8nent on a level of internationalcompetition in the field of BiomedicalEngineering.

CRITERIA: The three most outstanding studentcompetitors at the Annual InternationalConference of the EMBSwili be recognizedbased on the quality and presentation of the i rresearch at tha. Conference.

2001AWAlRtDEt£S

1- place: Ack'ian Chen Instlute ct Bk>medalEngineering Hidden Markov Model Classificationof My~lectrK; Signals in Speech

NOMINATlON: Student EMBS members whohave submitted their papers to the student papercanpetition at the Annual InternationaConference of the IEEE EMBS, and who havealready been recognized as an EMBS WtitakerFoundation Student Open Competition Finalist oras an EMBS Whitaker Foundation StudentRegion Finalist. are automatically considered forthis award.

~ place: Jaime Heiss UniversOad de ChileClassification of Sleep Stages in Infants: a NeuroFuzzy Approach

3rd place Tie:

Ersin Bayram Wake Forest University Sd1OO ofMedicine ConfK:ience Based Anisotropic FHteringof Magnetic Resonance Images

Stam Lohman Delft Univer:siy d TechnobgyA Digital Signal Processor for CkJppier RadarSensing of Vital Signs

Sasak U/ker MkJdle East Technical UniversityImp/ementat'on of a Data ACXIuisit,On System forContad.less Conductivity Imaging RECOGNI1l0N: Cash awards m $300. $200.

and $100 respectively for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd placewinners.

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Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Awards 2002

2002 PI!N~Im

Region 6 Wojciech K. Timoszyk University ofCalifornia, Irvine Second Generation Robotk;Systems for StLKiying Rodent LocomotionFollowing Spinal Cord Injury

Region 1 Harold Bien SUNY at Stony BrookCardiac Cell Networks on Elastic Mk;rogroovedScaffolds

Region 2 Fariyal Ahmed University of PennsylvaniaControlled Release and Stealthy Circulation ofPolymersomes

Region 7 Christina Cately Car1eton UniversityDesign of a Health Care Architecture for MedicalData Interoperability and Application Integration

Region 9 Bernd Afessnan Graz University ofT edlnology A New Spatk>temporal Regularizatk>nMethod for Estimating the CardiacTransmembrane Potential

Region 3 Mark Wachowiak University of LouisvilleGeneralized Mutuallnfonnatk>n Similarity Metrics forMultimodal Biomedical Image Registratk>n

Region 4 Zachary Hilt Purdue UniversityA Biomems Sensor Platform Based on a Cantileverwith a Precisely Pattemed EnvironmentaHy SensitiveHydrogel

Region 10 Van S... Nanyang TechnologicalUniversity Cardiac Rhythm Tracking inEJectrocardiographk; Signals by MorphologK;a1Transform-Based Singularity DetectorRegion 5 Kathryn Simpson Rice University

Quantkation of S. Aureus Adhesk>n to FibronedinUsing Optical Tweezers

2002 PI1f.:4LI.5vrS

Jonathan Brown Louisiana Tech UniversityNanoengineered Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules asFluorescent Potassium Ion Sensors

Daniel Mocanu Boston University BiventricularDefibrillation with Sequential Shocks UsingPatient-Derived Computatk>nal Models

John L. Tan Johns Hopkins Feel the Force: Usingan Array of Posts to Map Single Cell GeneratedTraction Forces

Jan Lammerding Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology Quantitative Measurements of Activeand Passive Mechanical Properties of AdultCardiac Myocytes

We; He RutgersRecognitk>n forAnalyzing System

University Nudeus ShapeAn Automated Hematology Paul Yoo Case Western Reserve University

Selective Stimulatk)n of the Hypogbssal Nerve: AFine Approach to Treating Obstructive SleepApnea

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Engineering in Medicine and Biolog)' Society Awards 2002

Barry C. Brusso, Chicago, ILFor leadership in industrial applicationsof environmental, health and life safety systems.

John A~hony D'Andrea, San Antonio, TXFor contributions to human RFsafe-exposure standards.

Nlco De Roolj, Neuch8tel, SwitzerlandFor contributions to microelectricaVmechanicalsystems and technology transfer to themarket{iace

Janie Mclawhorn Fouke, East Lansing, MIFor contributions to the theories of and instrumentationfor obstructive pulmonary disorders

Henrietta L Gallana, Montreal, CanadaFor leadership in understanding biological controlsystems and for the development of transient identificationmethods in the modeling of ocUar reflexes.

Allen W. Glisson, University, MSFor contributions to the development of numericalsolution methods in electromagnetic scattering bycomfiex surfaces.

M~y Howard Loew, Washington, DCFor contributions to medical image ana/aysis, patternrecongnition. and digital image processing

Chi-Sang Poon, Cambridge, MAFor contributions to the apfiication of enfineeringsystems theory to biomedical modeling.

Milan Sonk., Iowa City, IAFor contributions to medical image analysis andcomputer vision

AndrewY.J. Szeto, San Diego, CAFor contributions to rehatNlitation enfineering

Masao W..hlzu, Kyoto, JapanFor contributions to the application of electric fields tothe manipulation of molecules and cells for a%g;calresearr;h.

George Robert Wodlcka, West Lafayette, INFor contributions to biomedical acoustic research andits apPication to clinical diagnosis and therapy

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Engineering in Medicine and Biology Societ)' A\\'ards 2002

m he 2001 EMBS Early Career Ad1ievement Award is

Dorin Panescu received the B.S. degree in Eledronics andTeI~urjcations from the Polyted1nic Institute, Timisoara,Romania, in 1985, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electricaland Computer En~neering from the University of Wisoonsin atMadison, in 1991 and 1993, respectively. Dr. Panescu is a SeniorDirector of Researd1 and Development with the CardiacElectrophysiology Division of Boston Sdentific in San Jose,Califomia, where he is developing devices for radiofrequencyablation, cardiac mapping, 3-D catheter navigation and 2-D and3-D ultrasound ima~ng. From 1993 - 1996, he was a SeniorReseard1 and Development Engineer with EP Technologies,Sunnyvale, Califoma, where he contributed to the developmentof cardiac mapping and ablation devices. From 1991 - 1993 hewas a Researd1 Assistant with the University of WiS(X)nsin -Madison where he wor1<ed on large 3-D finite element models forcarciac padng and defioollation, developed electrical models forthe skin, and designed CMOS and GaAs VlSI drcuits. From1987 - 1990 he was a Senior Researd1 and DevelopmentEngineer with the Institute for Automation, Cluj-Napoca,Romania. where he designed data acquisition syst8ns. From1985 - 1987 he was a Produdion Manager with the ElectricInstrlment Enterprise, Timisoara, Romania, where he supervisedthe production of temperature regulators and electronictad1om~ers.

Dorin Panescu

AWARDEES

Dr. Panescu is an inventor or oo-inventor on over 100 issued USpatents related to catheters, hardware and software for medicaimaging, diagnosis and therapies. In his career, he had directlyconbitxJted to the develoJXnent and to the sua:essful release fordinical use of several produds. These produds indude long-tipcatheters and high-power radiofrequency systsns used for thetreatment of atrial flutter, m~ti-electrode multi-channelradiofrequency systems for use during carciac surgery, multi-electrode catheters and 3-D mapping and navigation systsns forthe mapping of focal complex tachycardias and systsns forintracardiac ultrasound 3-D imaging. For his contributions tocarciac lesion sdence, Boston Saentific awarded him the JohnAbele Science and Ted1nology Award in 2001. He is an author orco-author on over 80 publications related to radiofrequencydevices, 3-D imaging, 3-D mapping, paang, defibrillation, analog,digital and VlSI arcuit design and digital signal processing

2001: David Beebe2000: James Collins1999: Zhi-Pei Liang1997: Melin Akay1996: Joan E. Sanders1995: Atam Dhawan1993: Rory A. Cooper1992: Yitzhak Mendelson1991: Blake Hannaford1990: Janie M. Fouke1988: Yongmin Kim1986: George V. Kondraske1985: Kirk Shung

CRITERIA: The award is presented annually to anindividual who has made significant contributionstechnologically or theoretically to the field of BiomedicalEngineering within teriAyears cK completion of his or herhighest degree. These contributions must representmeritorious achievement, exemplary technical contribution,or educational contribution to the field as evidenced byinnovative research, design, product development, patentsor publications. attend an awards presentation ceremony.The awardee will be invited to pu~ish a feature artide inthe EMB Magazine.

Dr. Panescu serves on the review board of several joumals,inducing IEEE Transadions in Biomedical Engineering, IEEETransadions on Infonnation Technaogy in BioMedidne andPhysiol~ca Measurenent. He setVed as a menber of theIEEE-EMBS Mninistrative Committee from 1997 to 1998 and asa Co-Char of the Cardiovascular Systens Theme at the IEEE-EMBS Conference, Chicago, 1997.

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..L presented to Dorin Panescu for:For groundbreaking research in ratIo freqcefK;y (RF)

cardiac catheter alNation, the invention alx1 development ofcardiac alNation map~ng systems, alx1 systems of mcAti{ieelectrodes.

Engineering in Medicine and Biolog)' Society Awards 2002

T he 2001 EMBS Service Award is ~esented to SwamyLaxminarayan for:

For outstanding and extraOldinary oontrlbuoons and~rv'K:es in launching the IEEE TransacOOns oninformaoon Technobgy in Bt>med'K;ine as theFounding Editor-in-Chief and broa~ning the scope ofactivities in EMBS.

Swamy Laxminarayan has held several senior positions both inindustry and academia. These have induded serving as theChief Information Officer at the Nationa Lolis U~versity,Director of the Pharmaceutica and Health Care InformationServices at NextGen Intemet (the premier Internet organizationthat spun off fr~ the NSF sponsored John von NeumanNational Supefconputer Center in Princeton), progran Directorof Bi~edical Engineering and Researdl C~puting andProgram Director of Cornputationa Biology at the University ofMedidne and Dentistry in New Jersey, V~Chair of Advarr.edMedical Imaging Center, Dredcx- of Clinical Computing at theMontefiore Hospital and Medical Center and the Albert EinsteinCollege of Medidne in New York, Drector of the VocaITec HighTech Corporate University in New Jersey, and the DW-ector ofthe Bay Networks Authorized Center in Princeton. He has alsoserved as an Adjund Professor of Bi~edical Engineering atthe New Jersey Institute of Technology, a Clinical AssociateProfessor of Health Informatics, Visiting Professor at theUniversity of Bmo in Czech Republic and an HonoraryProfessor of Health Sdences at Tsinghua University in China.He is currently a senior faculty member at the I nstitute of RuralHealth in Idaho.

Swam)' Laxminarayan

AWARDEES 2001: Metin Akay2000: Jack Iverson1999: Jean Louis Coatrieux1998: Susan M. Blanchard1996: Michael R. Neuman1995: Charles Robinson1994: Barry Feinberg1992: Swamy Laxminarayan1990: Alvin Wald1983: Eli Fromme

As an educator, researd1er and ted1nologist, Prof.Laxminarayan has been involved in ~ornedical engineering andinfOnT1ation ted1nology applications in meaane and health carefor over 25 years and has ptj)lished extensively in internationaljoumals, bo<*s and conferences. His expertise are in the areasof biomedical information technology, high performancecomputing, cigital signals and image processing, bioinformaticsand physiological syst811S analysis. He is the co-author of thebook on State-of-the-Arl PDE and Level Sets AlgorithmicApproaches to Stalk; and Mott>n Imagery Segmentaoon whichhas been recently pubished by KloUWef' Pu~ications. Other~ing books indude Angiography Imaging: State-of-the-ArlAcquisitt>n, Image Processing and ApplK:att>ns Using MagneticResonance. Computer Tomography, Uffrasound and X-rays andEmerging Mobik3 E-Heaffh Systems He is the Founding Editor-in-Ctief and Edlor Emeritus of the IEEE Transactions onInformation Techooogy in Biomediane. His contributions to thefield have earned him numerous national and internationalawards. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical andBiOlogK:a E~neering, a recipient d'the IEEE 3rd MillenniumMedal and a recipient of the Puri(ynje award from the Czech.A£ademy of Medical Soaeties. He can be reached ats .n.laJan naravMa>:ieee. ora

CRITERIA: The award is presented only to individualswho have made significant service contributions to theEMB Society. These contributions must representuncommon dedication, and a record of exemplary serviceto the EMB society. The work cited could have appearedin the form of service as an EMBS Officer, AdCommember, editor, associate editor or sodety member.

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Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Awards 2002

T he 2001 EMBS Career Award is presented to Willis J.Tompkins for:

For a melitorious career in bk>medk;al engineeringeducaoon as exemplified by excellence in classroomteaching, promotk>n of design and hands-onexperience in the learning process, and publicatk>n oftextbooks.

Willis J. Tompkins received the B.S. and M.S. degrees inelectrica engineering from the University of Maine at Orono in1963 and 1965, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree inbiomedical electronic engineering from the University ofPennsylvania in 1973.

He is currently Professor of Biomedical Engineering andElectrical and Computer Engineering at the University ofWisconsin-Madison, where he has been on the faculty since1974. He previously served for five years as Chair of theDepartment d" Electrical and Computer Engineering. Histeaching specialty is on the topic of computers in medicine, anarea in wt1ch he has developed two courses. One of these twocourses, he has evolved and taught for 29 consecutive years.He has received several teaching awards including theUniversity of Wisconsin Chancellor's Award for Excellence inTeaching. His research interests indude development ofmicroprocessor-based medical instrumentation, on-linebiomedical computing, and real-time computer processing ofelectrocardiograms.

AWARDEES

Dr. Tompkins has published more than 240 journal papers,book chapters, and conference articles. He has served asresearch advisor for more than 90 M.S. and Ph.D. graduates.

He has published four textbooks: 1) BkJmedk:a1 Digital SignalProcessing, Prentice Hall, 1993; 2) Design of Microcomputer-Based MedicallnstrumentatkJn, Prentice Hall, 1981 (wth J. G.Webster); 3) Intelfacing Sensors to the IBM PC, Prentice Hall,1988 (with J. G. Webster); and 4) Eledront: Devices forRehabilitatkJn, Chapman Hall, 1985 (with J. G. Webster, A. M.Cook, and G. C. Vanderheiden).

Dr. Tompkins is a FellCNI of the IEEE and a Founding Fellow ofthe AlMBE. He is a past President of the IEEE EMBS and isalso a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the Associationfor the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, theBiomedical Engineering Society, and the American Sodety forEngineering Education. He is a Registered ProfessionalEngineer in Wisconsin.

Willis J. Tompkins

2001: John G. Webster2000: Max Schaldach1999: Fernand A. Roberge1997: J. Lawrence Katz1996: Max E. Va/entinuzzl1995: Floyd Dunn1994: Wilson Greatbatch1993: John M. Reid1992: Edwin L. Carstensen1991: Walter Welkowitz1990: Richard J. Johns1988: R. Stualt Mackay1987: Otto Schmitt1986: Lesl/eA. Geddes1985: David B. Gese/owitz1979: Robelt Plonsey"1974: Dean L Frankl/n"1973: Donald F. Childers "1968: Wilson Greatbatch "1967: Hennan Schwan"1963: Otto Schmitt "1961: Britton Chance"1956: Edward F. MacNichor*recipient of the William J Morlock MemorialAward

CRITERIA: The award is presented annually to an individual who has madesignificant contributions through a distinguished career of twenty years ormore in the iekj of Biomedical Engineering, as an educMor, researcher,deieloper or administrmor. These contributioos must represent meritoriousachievement and exemplary technical, educatiooal, or administrativeaccomplishment in the field. Any past or present member of the IEEE andEMBS who has not been a voting member of AdCom in the past two yearsis eli~ble. Before 1980, the award was designated es the WiUiam J. MorlockMemorial Award.

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