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PROGRAM
Friday, February 2, 2007, 8:00AM to 4:00PM
National Research Council, Building M-50, Auditorium,
1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa
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08:00-08:30 |
Registration and
Continental Breakfast
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08:30-08:35
08:35-08:40 |
Organizers Introductory and Welcoming Remarks
Objectives, program overview, house announcements
v Dr.
Branislav Djokic, P.Eng.,
IEEE Ottawa Section Past Chair, Senior Researcher, Institute for
National Measurement Standards, National Research Council of
Canada
v Dr.
Wahab Almuhtadi,
P.Eng.,
IEEE Ottawa
Section Chair,
Professor, Photonics Engineering, Algonquin
College, Ottawa
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08:40-08:45 |
Welcoming Remarks
v Dr.
James McLaren, Director General, Institute for
National Measurement Standards, National Research Council of
Canada
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08:45-09:05 |
Opening Address
v Dr.
Roman Szumski,
Vice-President, Life Sciences, National Research Council of
Canada
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09:05-09:35 |
Keynote
Address:
Medical Devices and Blood Pressure Measurement Technology
v Dr. Tofy
Mussivand, Chair and Director of Cardiovascular
Devices Division, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Professor, Surgery and Engineering, Medical Devices Program,
University of Ottawa and Carleton University
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09:35-09:40 |
Message from the
Moderator: The Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Biomedical
Engineering Initiatives and Programs
v Dr.
Rafik Goubran,
Acting Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Carleton
University, Ottawa
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09:40-10:00 |
IEEE Standardization of Blood Pressure
Measurement Initiative
v Dr.
Voicu Groza, Professor, School of Information
Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa
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10:00-10:15 |
Networking Refreshment Break
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10:15-10:35 |
Health Canada's
role in regulation and standards for blood pressure instruments
v Dr.
Philip D. Neufeld,
Manager of the Device Surveillance Division of the Medical
Devices Bureau, Health Canada
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10:35-11:05 |
The Measurement
Problem in Medicine: The Case of Hypertension
v Dr.
Radu Leca, CTO, Biosign Technologies Inc., Toronto
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11:05-11:40 |
Modeling the Human Cardiovascular system
v Dr. Aneta
Stefanovska,
Lancaster
University,
Lancaster,
UK
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11:40-12:00 |
Morning Plenary Session
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12:00-13:00 |
Lunch
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13:00-13:30 |
Photonics Methods for
Imaging Blood Flow and Oxygen Delivery
v Dr.
Michael Sowa,
Senior research officer and leader of the Optical Spectroscopy Group,
Institute for Biodiagnostics (IBD), National Research Council of
Canada's (NRC),
Winnipeg
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13:30-13:50 |
Physiological Basis of Oscillometric Blood
pressure Measurement
v Jiri
Jilek, MS, King/Drew Medical Center, Los Angeles, US
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13:50-14:20 |
Medical
Standards for Medical Data Communication: IEEE 1073 and HL7
v Dr.
ir. Nick Goga, Royal University of Groningen, the
Netherlands
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14:20-14:35 |
Networking Refreshment Break
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14:35-14:50
14:50-15:05 |
Technological Challenges in
Developing Motion & Noise Tolerant Automated Blood Pressure
Devices
v Dr.
Stergios Stergiopoulos,
Chief Scientist CANAMET Inc., Defence Research and Development
Canada
v Dr.
Uri Sagman , MD, FRCPC,
Executive Director, The Canadian NanoBusiness Alliance
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15:05-15:35 |
Determination of
Ventricular Pressure and Ventricular Load in the Presence of an Aortic
stenosis
v Dr.
Lyes Kadem,
Dept. of Mechanical and
Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal
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15:35-15:55 |
Afternoon Plenary Session
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15:55-16:00 |
Closing Remarks
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