Track Chairs

Radiation Oncology Physics and Dosimetry

Prof Andrew Nisbet
Professor and Head of Department
University College London
United Kingdom

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Dr Martin Fast
Physicist and Associate Professor, Radiotherapy Department
University Medical Center Utrecht
Netherlands

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Dr Martin Fast is a physicist and associate professor in the radiotherapy department of the University Medical Center Utrecht in The Netherlands. Dr Fast’s group develops novel MRI-guided techniques for (real-time) adaptive radiotherapy. He leads the joint AAPM/EFOMP task group on 4D-MRI in Radiotherapy. In addition, Dr Fast spearheads projects on stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation.

Diagnostic Imaging Physics and Dosimetry

Dr Zoe Brady
Chief Physicist (Diagnostic Imaging) and Radiation Safety Officer
Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
Australia

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Zoe Brady (BSc (Hons), PhD, CMPS, FACPSEM) is the Chief Physicist (Diagnostic Imaging) and Radiation Safety Officer at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. She has worked as a clinical physicist for 20 years and has research interests in the risks from low dose ionising radiation exposure and the implications for current medical policy and practice. Zoe holds an honorary research position at the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne where she is involved in dosimetry for one of the largest paediatric cohort studies worldwide to publish risks relating to exposures from computed tomography scans in childhood and adolescence. Additionally, she holds a teaching appointment in the Department of Radiology at the University of Melbourne and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer position with the Department of Neuroscience, Monash University. Zoe is an Associate Editor for the British Journal of Radiology, Chair of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) Diagnostic Imaging Certification Panel and works on various projects in the Asia-Pacific region with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Dr Kai Yang
Investigator and Assistant Professor, Radiology
Mass General Research Institute
United States

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Image Processing/Image Analysis and Quantification

Dimitris Visvikis
Director, Head Team ACTION and Director of Research INSERM
Université de Bretagne Occidentale
France

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Prof Ioannis Sechopoulos
Chair, AXTI Lab
Radboud University Medical Center
Netherlands

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Non-Ionising Imaging Technologies & Safety (Ultrasound, MR, OCT, etc.)

Prof Magdalena Stoeva
Professor
Medical University of Plovdiv
Bulgaria

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Nuclear Medicine, Theranostics and Radionuclide Therapy and Dosimetry

Dr Chai Hong Yeong
Medical Physicist and Professor
Taylor’s University
Malaysia

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Dr Irène Buvat
Head, Inserm Laboratory of Translational Imaging in Oncology
Institut Curie
France

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Irène Buvat obtained her PhD degree in “Nuclear and Particle Physics” from Paris Sud University, France, in 1992 and focused her research on applications of nuclear physics to medical imaging. After spending one year at University College London, UK, and two years at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA, she entered the French “Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique” in 1995.

She is currently the head of the Inserm Laboratory of Translational Imaging in Oncology at Institut Curie in Orsay, France. Her research focuses on the development of quantification methods to make the most of PET data coupled with CT or MRI to understand biological mechanisms and optimize patient management. In particular, she introduced in 2020 a novel PET biomarker for a quantitative characterization of cancer dissemination, that has now been validated in over 2,000 patients.

She was one of the initiators of the collaboration developing the GATE Monte Carlo opensource simulation tool for tomography and radiotherapy applications. She is highly involved in radiomics and artificial intelligence (AI) research to enhance the role of PET in precision medicine. Her lab has developed the user-friendly LIFEx software to facilitate reproducible radiomic studies. She promotes open access to state-of-the-art research material and resource sharing to accelerate the development and validation of AI-based methods.

She is a member of the SNMMI AI task force and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Particle Therapy and Dosimetry

Dr Taku Inaniwa
Group Leader, Treatment Beam Research Group
National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology
Japan

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Taku Inaniwa, Ph.D, is a group leader of treatment beam research group at the Institute for Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) in Japan. His research focuses on developing dose calculation algorithms and biological models used for charged-particle therapy treatment planning. He has contributed more than 100 peer reviewed publications. For his works, he has received several national and international awards. From April 2022, he has concurrently served as a guest professor at Division of Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University.

A/Prof Scott Penfold
Lead Medical Physicist​
Australian Bragg Centre for Proton Therapy and Research
Australia

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A/Prof Scott Penfold is the Lead Medical Physicist of the Australian Bragg Centre for Proton Therapy and Research. Scott is an Affiliate Associate Professor with the University of Adelaide and served as the inaugural Chair of the Particle Therapy Working Group of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) from 2018 – 2023. Scott completed his PhD in Medical Physics through the University of Wollongong in collaboration with Loma Linda University Medical Center in California, in the field of proton computed tomography.

Advanced Technologies in Cancer Research and Treatment, including Nanotechnologies and Robotics

Dr Wayne Beckham
Provincial Medical Physics Leader
BC Cancer Agency
Canada

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Wayne Beckham is the Provincial Medical Physics Leader for BC Cancer, the sole provider of comprehensive cancer care for the province of British Columbia on the west coast of Canada. He served as the Regional Medical Physics Leader and site Radiation Safety Officer for Class II radiation devices and for PET/CT at BC Cancer – Victoria from 1998 – 2023. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Victoria (UVic) and was the UVic/BC Cancer – Victoria Medical Physics accredited Graduate Program founding Director (2003 – 2023). Since 2023 he assumed the role as the Director of BC Cancer’s accredited Medical Physics Residency Training Program, one of the largest in North America. Wayne’s primary research interests involve using leading edge radiation treatment technology to improve patient care. He has authored or co-authored 80 publications in peer reviewed international journals and contributed to over 150 conference presentations. Prior to moving to Canada, he worked 8.5 years as an RT medical physicist in New Zealand and Australia.

He has served in several volunteer roles in national and international organisations. He currently serves on the IOMP Honours and Awards Committee. He was the President of the Canadian Organisation of Medical Physicists from 2020-2022. He served as the President of the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs (CAMPEP) in 2014-2015 and as Registrar of the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine from 2003 to 2009.

Dr Vanessa Panettieri
Senior Medical Physicist
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Australia

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Vanessa Panettieri PhD is an accredited Senior Medical Physicist currently working at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre with 20 years of experience in Radiation Oncology, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University and Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne (Australia). Prior to moving to Australia in 2010 Vanessa has worked as Research Medical Physicist at the Karolinska Hospital in Sweden and Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in the UK, focusing on treatment planning calculations in the context of SBRT and biologically-based clinical trials. Vanessa’s current research interests are in predictive modelling, automated planning and advanced imaging for treatment individualisation.

Modelling and Simulation

A/Prof Magdalena Bazalova-Carter
Associate Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Medical Physics
University of Victoria
Canada

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Magdalena Bazalova-Carter is an Associate Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Medical Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. She received her PhD degree at McGill University and postdoctoral training at Stanford University. Her current research interests include Monte Carlo simulations and experiments of photon-counting CT imaging, robotic x-ray radiotherapy and FLASH radiotherapy. Magdalena received a number of awards, such as the 2018 John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award awarded by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and the 2021 University of Victoria Faculty of Science Research Excellence Award. In 2023, she was inducted into the College of the Royal Society of Canada. She served as a Deputy Editor for Medical Physics in 2021-2023 and in 2024 was elected as a Commissioner of the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU).

Prof Martin Ebert
Director, Physics Research
Department of Health (WA Health)
Australia

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Martin has been engaged in clinical and research medical physics for over 30 years, with the majority of that time being spent in Perth, Western Australia, one of the world’s most isolated cities. Martin has contributed principally to the development of response models for radiotherapy and has focussed heavily on the collection of high-quality data from clinical trials to drive development of translational models. Martin has also worked extensively on the development of tissue microenvironment simulation, as driven by in vitro and pre-clinical experiments.

Radiation Biology and Radiation Protection

Ola Holmberg
Scientific Secretary, Division of Radiation, Transport and Waste Safety, Department of Nuclear Safety and Security
International Atomic Energy Agency
Austria

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Prof Iuliana Toma-Dasu​
Head, Medical Radiation Physics Division
Stockholm University
Sweden

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Patient Safety

Dr Phil Koken
Lecturer
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Netherlands

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After my Ph.D.-defense in December 1993 I started my training as a medical physicist. In September 1996 I joined the Radiation Oncology Department of the Amsterdam UMC. Besides the clinics, I am specialized in TBI treatments and in peripheral dose. I am a lecturer at the VU university and InHolland university. Recently I started working with AI-functionalities to improve the lecturing, student training and examinations.

Since 2021 I am a member of the Dutch Advisory Group for Cancer during Pregnancy. This group of 47 medical experts gives advice to referring medical teams who are looking after a pregnant patient with cancer. In 2023 this group published a book, which I co-edited and co-authored.

In 1997 I founded the Varian Users Group in Belgium and The Netherlands, which I still chair; I am a member of the national societies of Clinical Physics and of Radiation Oncology, for which I participated in several task groups. I have (co-)authored dozens of papers related to my work.

In my spare time I enjoy doing research on natural and art history, about which I have published several papers in peer-reviewed journals. I am also working on a book related to these subjects. Finally, my photos are published in (inter)national books and magazines.

Prof Kathleen M. Hintenlang
Professor, Radiation Oncology
The Ohio State University
United States

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Dr Kathleen M. Hintenlang earned her graduate degrees in Medical Physics from the University of Florida. She’s developed a broad base of expertise in the practice of medical physics and is ABR certified and licensed in Therapeutic Medical Physics, Diagnostic Medical Physics and Medical Nuclear Physics. Kathleen was employed at UF in Gainesville, FL for eleven years where she worked in diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine and radiation protection, and consulted in radiation therapy. She subsequently joined Robert Boissoneault Oncology Institute, a large private practice radiation oncology group based in Ocala, FL, where she worked as a clinical radiation therapy physicist and RSO for the next twelve years. Kathleen then joined the faculty at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville in Radiation Oncology for three years before she moved to The Ohio State University. Throughout this time Kathleen has been the president of a medical physics consulting company that provided services to a variety of health care facilities. She’s also maintained affiliate faculty appointments in both the College of Medicine and the College of Engineering at UF. Over the course of her career she has been deeply involved with a wide variety of professional activities and has held multiple committee and leadership roles in the AAPM, as well as the ACMP, ABR, ACR, ASTRO, CRCPD, IAEA, IOMP and her local chapters.

Digital Health, Cybersecurity, Telehealth, Digital Therapeutics, Risk Management of Digital Technologies

A/Prof Jorge Henriques
Associate Professor, Informatics Engineering Department
University of Coimbra
Portugal

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Prof Trish Williams
Professor, Digital Health Systems
Flinders University
Australia

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Professor Trish Williams is a leader in research and innovation in digital health. Trish is Cisco Chair and Professor of Digital Health Systems at Flinders University, Director of Flinders Digital Health Research Centre, and Director of Cisco-Flinders Digital Health Design Lab and Digital Health IOT Laboratory. Internationally recognised in her field, Trish applies 40 years of experience in healthcare computing to research and practical outcomes in cybersecurity, health IoT, mobile health, medical devices, governance, patient safety, and health software safety. Trish is a passionate contributor and advocates for digital health informatics standards, Co-Chair HL7 International Security Workgroup and national expert on health informatics, security and medical device ISO standards. She has authored over 140 medical information security and safety publications. When not doing all this, she devotes time to the practical assessment of boutique gin and full-bodied red wine!

In 2021 she was awarded the prestigious Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering fellowship and named one of the 2021 Brilliant Women in Digital Health. In 2024, Cosmos named Trish one of the 50 remarkable and inspirational women in Australian science, recognising her contributions to mentoring, technology development, improving health outcomes using digital health, and introducing new digital processes for healthcare delivery.

3D printing, Metaverse using Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Realities

Dr Mazher Mohammed
Reader of Product Design Engineering
Loughborough University
United Kingdom

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​Dr Mazher Iqbal Mohammed is a Reader of Product Design Engineering within the School of Design and Creative arts at Loughborough University. He graduated from Edinburgh University, UK with a MPhys in Physics before completing his Engineering Doctorate (EngD) in Medical Device Bioengineering at the Centre for Doctoral Training within the Biomedical Engineering Department at Strathclyde University, UK. Dr Mohammed has worked in several prestigious academic institutes across both the UK and Australia, including roles at Heriot Watt University, the Australian National University (ANU) and Deakin University. During this time, he has developed strong interdisciplinary skills working in product design, biomedical engineering, advanced manufacturing, material sciences and biosensing.

Dr Mohammed leads the Product Design Engineering Group, and his research interests focus on Design for Health and Wellbeing, working at the intersection of healthcare, sustainability, and equitable design to advance solutions which positively impacting human development and longevity. He has published over 50 peer reviewed publications and is co-author of the leading textbook ‘Medical Modeling: The Application of Advanced Design and Additive Manufacturing Techniques in Medicine’. Dr Mohammed is particularly interested in leveraging disruptive technologies such as additive manufacturing, nature inspired design and data driven processes to develop innovative and practical solutions in healthcare, across diagnostic, prosthetics, surgical systems and rehabilitation technologies.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, AI Clinical Implementation

Prof Ehsan Samei
Professor, Radiology, Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Medical Physics
Duke University
United States

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Ehsan Samei is the Reed and Martha Rice Distinguished Professor at Duke University where he holds five departmental affiliations. He directs the NIH-sponsored Center for Virtual Imaging Trials (CVIT) and co-directs the FDA-sponsored Triangle Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (Triangle-CERSI). His expertise includes clinical physics, quantitative imaging, and relevant use of AI. His passion is to position medical physics and in silico methods to generate and accelerate patient-centric care, and do so through innovative design and compassionate practice. He has authored over 400 referred papers and four books, is a fellow of five professional societies, and was the recipient of the 2022 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award by the International Organization of Medical Physics. He is the founder of the Medical Physics 3.0 initiative.

Prof Habib Zaidi
Chief Physicist and Head, PET Instrumentation & Neuroimaging Laboratory
Geneva University Hospital
Switzerland

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Habib Zaidi is Chief physicist and head of the PET Instrumentation & Neuroimaging Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital and full Professor at the medical school of the University of Geneva. He is also a Professor at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), the University of Southern Denmark (Denmark) and Óbuda University (Hungary). His research is supported by the Swiss National Foundation, the European Commission, private foundations and industry (Total 11M+ US$) and centres on hybrid imaging instrumentation (PET/CT and PET/MRI), computational modelling and radiation dosimetry and deep learning. He was guest editor for 14 special issues of peer-reviewed journals and serves and serves as founding Editor-in-Chief (scientific) of the British Journal of Radiology (BJR)|Open, Deputy Editor for Medical Physics and is on the editorial board of leading journals in medical physics and medical imaging. He has been elevated to the grade of fellow of the IEEE, AIMBE, AAPM, IOMP, AAIA and the BIR. His academic accomplishments in the area of quantitative PET imaging have been well recognized by his peers since he is a recipient of many awards and distinctions among which the prestigious (100’000$) 2010 Kuwait Prize of Applied Sciences (known as the Middle Eastern Nobel Prize). Prof. Zaidi has been an invited speaker of over 245 keynote lectures and talks at an International level, has authored over 435+ peer-reviewed articles (h-index=79, >23’300+ citations) in prominent journals and is the editor of four textbooks.

Health Technology Assessment and Global Health

Dr Cari Borrás
Consultant
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
United States

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Cari (Caridad) Borrás obtained a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Barcelona, having done a thesis research project on the dosimetry and embryological effects of Astatine-211 at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA, USA, as a Fulbright scholar. The American Board of Radiology certified her in Radiological Physics, and the American Board of Medical Physics in Medical Health Physics. She has worked as a radiological physicist in Barcelona, Spain; Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; Recife, Brazil; and Washington DC, where for 15 years she was responsible for the Radiological Health Program of the Pan American / World Health Organization and where she currently holds an adjunct faculty position at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and works as a consultant. She is a member and has served on several AAPM, ACR, HPS, IOMP, and IUPESM committees. She has organized and/or participated in more than 300 international courses/workshops, written over 100 publications, and edited/coedited three books on radiology services and radiation safety, the latest one on radiotheranostics. She is a Fellow of the ACR, AAPM, IOMP, HPS, and IUPESM, and has received awards/recognitions from SEFM, AAPM, IOMP, ALFIM, ACCE, ACR, ABR, and IUPESM.

Biosignals Processing

Prof David Grayden
Clifford Chair of Neural Engineering
Graeme Clark Institute for Biomedical Engineering
Australia

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Professor David B. Grayden is Clifford Chair of Neural Engineering in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology and the Graeme Clark Institute for Biomedical Engineering. He is Director of the ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies and Co-Director of the Victorian Medtech Skills and Devices Hub. Prof Grayden’s main research interests are in understanding how the brain processes information, how best to present information to the brain using medical bionics, such as the bionic ear and bionic eye, and how to record information from the brain, such as for brain-machine interfaces. He is also conducting research in epileptic seizure prediction and electrical stimulation to prevent or stop epileptic seizures. Prof Grayden teaches BioDesign Innovation in collaboration with the Melbourne Business School.

Dr Atif Shahzad
Assistant Professor, Medical Technologies and Research Lead, Medical Sensors and Wearable Technology
University of Birmingham
United Kingdom

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Dr Atif Shahzad is Assistant Professor of Medical Technologies and Research Lead for Medical Sensors and Wearable Technology at the Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Birmingham. His multidisciplinary research focuses on addressing critical healthcare challenges by developing and translating innovative technologies into clinical practice.

Dr Shahzad’s work integrates electromagnetic imaging, bio-sensing, and medical signal processing to create patient-centred solutions for unmet clinical needs. He has collaborated extensively with industry partners, contributing to the development and commercialisation of cutting-edge medical devices ranging from wearable telemetry systems to advanced bio-electronic sensors. These innovations have had a transformative impact on healthcare, enabling improved diagnostics, personalised treatments, and remote patient monitoring.

Beyond research, Dr Shahzad has made significant contributions to national policies and standards. He played a pivotal role in shaping Ireland’s AI strategy and roadmap, participated in the national task force for a joint COVID-19 response, and contributed to clinical guidelines for device-based therapies. His extensive research output includes over 75 published articles, reflecting his dedication to advancing knowledge and improving clinical practice through evidence-based innovation.

Biomechanics, Rehabilitation and Prosthetics and Assistive Technologies

A/Prof David Hobbs
Associate Professor, Teaching and Research
Flinders University
Australia

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David has bachelor degrees in Physics (1992-1994) and Biomedical Engineering (1996-2000), with First Class Honours, and a PhD (2010-2018, in Rehabilitation Engineering) from Flinders University. He has extensive experience as a Rehabilitation Engineer in the field of disability, rehabilitation engineering and assistive technologies, and is an Associate Professor and academic staff member within the College of Science and Engineering and a researcher within the Medical Device Research Institute (MDRI) at Flinders University.

David’s professional honours to date include being awarded a Churchill Fellowship in the field of rehabilitation engineering and Universal Design (2003); Engineers Australia’s Young Professional Engineer of the Year (2004); Engineers Australia’s Top 100 Most Influential Engineers (2005); and a Fulbright Professional Scholarship in the field of paediatric rehabilitation engineering (2008). David is also a Fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust), the Professional Association for all Engineers in Australia.

David has experience working in rehabilitation engineering research and industry institutions in Australia, England, Canada and the United States, holds a patent for his PhD work, and has twice won first prize in the College of Biomedical Engineers’ Better Technology Awards for novel assistive technologies. He is an invited TEDx speaker, has delivered numerous invited and keynote presentations, and he has represented Australia at two Global Research, Innovation, and Education in Assistive Technology Summit events at the WHO in Geneva.

David is also the Course Coordinator/Director of Studies for the Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Science Degree Programs at Flinders University.

Prof Alex Mihailidis
Associate Vice-President for International Partnerships
University of Toronto
Canada

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Minimum Invasive Surgery, Robotics, Image Guided Therapies, Endoscopy

Prof Hongliang Ren
Professor
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

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Micro- and Nanosystems, Active Implants, Biosensors

Prof Omid Kavehei
Professor and Deputy Head of School of Biomedical Engineering for Research
University of Sydney
Australia

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Omid Kavehei is a Full Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Sydney and the Deputy Head of the School of Biomedical Engineering. He was a Visiting Project Scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2014. He was an Australian Government’s Endeavor Research Fellow, a SOAR Fellow at the University of Sydney in 2019, and an awardee of the 2021 Ramaciotti Awards for Biomedical Research. In 2021 and 2022, he was awarded the Dean of Engineering and Vice-Chancellor Excellence Awards in Research and Teaching at the University of Sydney, respectively. He is a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts and a Fellow of Engineers Australia. He is the co-founder of deteQt Pty Ltd, and Brainconnect Pty Ltd. BrainConnect is a neurotechnology startup, and DeteQt is working on the next generation of miniaturised quantum magnetic sensors.

Neuroengineering, Neural Systems

Prof Anthony Burkitt
Chair, Bio Signals and Bio-Systems
University of Melbourne
Australia

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Biomaterials, Cellular and Tissue Engineering, Artificial Organs

Prof Jun Li
Professor
National University of Singapore
Singapore

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Prof Jun Li earned his PhD in macromolecular science from Osaka University in 1995 and has been a Professor at the National University of Singapore since 2015. His research focuses on synthetic and bio-based polymers, their supramolecular self-assemblies, and smart materials, including hydrogels, micelles, and nanoparticles, aimed at applications in nanomedicine, tissue engineering, and sustainability. He has published over 220 papers with an h-index of 72 and over 16,900 citations. Prof. Li holds 12 patents, has edited one research book, and authored five book chapters. He has chaired eight international symposia in his field and secured over S$10 million in funding as Principal Investigator. Additionally, he has graduated 22 PhD students and is currently supervising eight.

Prof Andrea O’Connor
Shanahan Chair in Frontier Medical Solutions and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor
University of Melbourne
Australia

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Professor Andrea O’Connor, PhD, FIChemE, FBSE is the Shanahan Chair in Frontier Medical Solutions and a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne and the Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery. She is a co-Director of the Victorian Medtech Skills and Device Hub and leads the Tissue Engineering Group in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Her research focuses on design, synthesis and fabrication of biomaterials, development of antimicrobial nanomaterials, and scale-up of tissue engineering. She teaches biomedical engineering subjects including Tissue Engineering and Stem Cells. Prof. O’Connor collaborates with clinicians, scientists, hospitals, medical research institutes and medical device companies to address unmet clinical needs.

Innovations in Medical Device Design and Development

Prof Cheng-Kung Cheng
Chair Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China

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Professor Cheng-Kung Cheng is the Chair Professor at the School of Biomedical Engineering, Director of the Imaging, Computational, and Systems Biomedicine Division, and Director of the Engineering Research Center for Digital Medicine of the Ministry of Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was the President of the World Association for Chinese Biomedical Engineers(WACBE 2022-2024), President of the Chinese-speaking Orthopaedic Society (CSOS 2009-2012) and a Council Member of the World Congress Biomechanics (WCB 2002-2014), etc.
Professor Cheng is also the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Medicine in Novel Technology and Devices, Co-Executive-Editor-in-Chief of Med-X; and serve as Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member of Medical Engineering & Physics, SPINE, Clinical Biomechanics, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, and Journal of Orthopaedic Translation, etc.

He is an elected fellow of both AIMBE and IAMBE. He received the Excellence in Clinical Science Award from the Orthopaedic Research Society of the USA and the Overseas Chinese Contribution Award from the Chinese Orthopaedic Association.

Professor Cheng’s primary research focuses on musculoskeletal biomechanics, orthopaedic implants, and innovative surgical technologies.

Paul Junor
President
Society for Medical & Biological Engineering
Australia

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Clinical Engineering

Prof Fabiola Martinez
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Mexico

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Prof Sudesh Sivarasu
DSI/NRF South African Research (SARChI) Chair, Biomedical Engineering & Innovation; Director, UCT’s Biomedical Engineering Research Centre
University of Cape Town
South Africa

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Professor Sudesh Sivarasu holds the DSI/NRF South African Research (SARChI) Chair in Biomedical Engineering & Innovation and is the Director of UCT’s Biomedical Engineering Research Centre. He is a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Cape Town, Department of Human Biology. He is the creator of the innovative FrugalBiodesign™ methodology and has established award-winning labs under UCT MedTech, producing ground-breaking medical technologies. His research focuses on developing health technologies for low-resource settings, and he has supervised over 85 students in their post-graduate academic journey. Dr Sivarasu has an extensive patent portfolio with over 67 patent applications across various countries, and his innovation has led to the launch of 4 start-up companies from UCT’s MedTech laboratories and several open-source innovations used in over 16 countries. He was part of the South African National Ventilator Project, which led to the production of 20,000 ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is leading the efforts on medical devices for future pandemics within the recently formed National Institute for Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention (NIP3). Dr. Sivarasu is an accomplished author with over 125 peer-reviewed publications and has received numerous awards, including the UCT Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Innovation, NSTF TW Khambule Award and 22 other awards in 4 different continents. He is an elected member of the Global Young Academy (GYA) and South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS), to which he served on the Exco and as a Co-Chair. Sivarasu edited the textbook on ‘Medical Device Innovation for Africa’.

BME and MP Education, Training and Professional Development, Accreditation, and Certification

Prof Chris Trauernicht
Head of Medical Physics
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

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Dr Martha Zequera
Professor
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Colombia

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Prof Martha Zequera is a IFMBE AC member, Chair Education & Accreditation Committee (E&A) and Students and Recents Graduates Working Group (S&RG-WG), Electronics Department, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia.

Global Health/Post-Pandemic/Preparedness

Prof Leandro Pecchia
Chair, Biomedical Engineering
University Campus Bio-Medico
Italy

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Leandro Pecchia is Chair of Biomedical Engineering at the University Campus Bio-Medico (UCBM) in Rome, Italy, which according to the Times High Education World University Ranking (THE WUR) is among the top 15% for Research. At UCBM, he is the Rector Delegate for Internationalization and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and directs the “Intelligent technologies for health and wellbeing”. Since December 2021, the Italian Minister of Health appointed Prof Leandro Pecchia as one of the three medical device experts of the Technical and Clinical Committee of the Ministry of Health.

From 2020 to September 2023, he worked as Innovation Manager for the World Health Organization (WHO), Emergency program (WHE) Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) unit.

Since September 2013, he has been professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Warwick, UK, where he still co-direct the Applied Biomedical Signal Processing and Intelligent eHealth Lab (ABSPIE). From 2010 to 2013, he worked with the University of Sheffield and the University of Nottingham, in the UK.

Prof Pecchia is a leading partner in several European research projects focusing on IA and IoT for healthcare remote monitoring (e.g., Large Scale Pilot Manager of the GATEKEEPEP project) and the use of AI and robots to improve hospital efficiency and safety (e.g., Pilot Manager of the ODIN project). Since he moved in Italy in 2022, he was involved in National projects on medical robots (Fit4MedRob) and on the use of AI for rare diseases (heart, eye and cancer).

Prof Pecchia authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers on journals, books and conferences in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, medical devices, biomedical signal processing, Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Internet of Things and machine learning applied to active and healthy ageing and management of chronic diseases.

Prof Pecchia is the Secretary General of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), and NGO in official relations with the WHO, and the Past President of the European scientific society of biomedical engineering (EAMBES). In the past, he served the international community of biomedical engineers as Secretary General (2018-22) of the International scientific society of medical physics and biomedical engineering (IUPESM), Treasurer (2018-25) of the IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division, and IFMBE Healthcare Technology Assessment Division Chair (2015-18) and Treasurer (2012-15).

Women, Diversity and Inclusivity in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

Prof Loredana Marcu
Professor
University of Oradea
Romania

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Loredana Marcu is Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Oradea, Romania and Adjunct Professor at School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia. She is a radiotherapy medical physicist, being educated and trained in Adelaide, South Australia, where she also worked as a TEAP (Training Education and Accreditation Program) preceptor supervising and coordinating the medical physics training and education of the junior physicists in South Australia. Loredana is the current chair of the Women Subcommittee (IOMP), co-chair of Women in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering committee (IUPESM) and past-chair of the European and International Matters committee (EFOMP).

Her 25 years teaching experience at both Australian and Romanian universities has materialised in 16 books/book chapters published on physics, radiobiology and teaching methodologies. She has over 200 peer-reviewed publications and conference presentation. Her current research interests cover in silico modelling of tumour growth and response to treatment, targeted therapies, the radiobiology of head and neck cancer, the risk of second cancer after radiotherapy and the role of tumour microenvironment in treatment resistance. Dr. Marcu is the recipient of the “Boyce Worthley award 2006” given by the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine for her achievements in the areas of radiobiology and medical physics.

A/Prof Lenka Lhotská
Associate Professor, Department of Natural Sciences
Czech Technical University
Czech Republic

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Lenka Lhotská, PhD, MIEEE, IUPESM Fellow, graduated as Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CVUT), Czech Republic and got PhD degree in Cybernetics from CVUT. Currently she is distinguished researcher at the Cognitive Systems and Neurosciences Department at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics and associate professor at the Department of Natural Sciences of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, CVUT.

Her research focus: Knowledge-based systems, application of artificial intelligence (AI) methods to medicine, digital signal processing, machine learning, semantic interoperability, mobile technologies in healthcare, electronic health record. She is scientific secretary of the Czech Society for Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics, National representative in IFMBE, chair of European region of the Council of Societies of IFMBE, member of the WiMBE WG of IFMBE, chair of the Women in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering TG of IUPESM, chair of the Working Group Personal Portable Devices of European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and member of the EFMI Council, and National representative in International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (IsfTeH). She was co-chair of the IUPESM World Congress 2018 and member of the PC EMBEC 2005, regularly she is PC member of conferences on AI and ICT in health care.