The CMBES Newsletter

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C AN ADI AN ME DI CAL AND BI OL O GI CAL E NGI NEE RI NG S OCI E TY
SOCI É TÉ CAN ADI ENNE DE GÉNI E B I OMÉDI CAL
Inside this issue:
GPPs for Members!
2
Upcoming Events
3
Peer Review Update
3
Meet the Executive
4
CMBES Forum
6
Conference Planning
7
CMBES Soapbox
7
Sharing the CMMS...
8
Webinar Series
14
Award at ACCES19
14
CMBEC37 Gatherings
15
CMBEC37 at the Podium
16
CMBEC37 Banquet/Awards
17
CMBEC 37 More Pics
18
Images from AAMI 2014
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EIC Honours Leon
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Katz
CMBES History - Part 2
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CMBES37 Award Winners
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CMBES Awards
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Images at CESO Jan 2014
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Treasurer Update
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CADTH Update
33
World Congress 2015
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ISSN: 1499-4089
Sharing the CMMS...
BC Health Systems Join Forces
History repeats itself in CMBES
Newsletter flashbacks
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CMBES Peer Review
Pg.14
Certificate Awarded at ACCES19
Pg. 14
CMBES Member Emeritus
Named Fellow of the EIC
Leon Katz O.C., O. Ont.
Pg. 22
Meet the New Executive
Pg. 4
A message from
our President!
2015 World Congress
CMBES Executive
Editor: Mike Capuano
Correspondent: Patrick Quesnel
Volume 47 Issue 2
Feature Article
Pg. 5
President: Martin Poulin
Vice President: Mike Capuano
Past-President: Murat Firat
Treasurer: Kyle Eckhardt
Membership: Sarah Kelso
Professional Affairs: Andrew Ibey
Bilingual Affairs: Mohcine El Garch
Conference Planning: Murray Rice
Awards: Dr. Evelyn Morin
Publications: Mohcine El Garch
Executive Secretary: Dawn Wilson
Web Master: Michael Hamilton
Summer 2014
Update
New Standards of Practice
CMBES releases long-awaited update to the CESOP
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CMBES Group Purchase Plans for Members
Apart from the general benefits of membership, the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society, CMBES members also have the opportunity to participate in a Group Purchase Plan. It allows you as
a member to reap the benefits from a Group Purchase Plan immediately. While the savings are group
based, your coverage is always individual. This plan includes key vendors who have great appeal, Staples office supplies, The Personal home and auto insurance and The Willow Design Group. Your membership can realize significant savings on items that usually are a majority of any personal purchase. Stay
tuned – more suppliers to come!
Vendors
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Members are offered a 13% discount on any design projects. The Willow Design Group specializes in
small business website design, including both custom and template design options. Specializing in working with business owners to create affordable, effective web designs to help promote their businesses,
and offering a wide range of design services, The Willow Design Group is here to help you with all your
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To begin your savings and receive a free quote on your design projects, visit their website:
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long as you provide us with 30 days notice. Tel # 1-866-883-9038 | Fax# 1-866-847-6129. mabdulai@pivotalpayments.com .
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Volume 46, Issue 2
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Upcoming Events 2014/15
Webinars for the 2014 Series
Sessions are being scheduled for the Fall. Part 2 on Medical Device Cybersecurity is set for September 19th. Tentative topics also include the new CMBES CE Standards of Practice and also
CMBES Peer Review, 3D Printing, Quality Management, and the latest in Epilepsy Monitoring
and Cardiology.
CMBES Peer Review Update
Based on the CMBES Clinical Engineering Standards of Practice (CESOP), the CMBES Peer Review
is an excellent way for biomedical/clinical engineering centres to obtain recognition for their work and
accomplishments. This on-site multi-discipline review focuses on clinical engineering programs specifically. If you think you are ready to be surveyed, please contact me (capuamik@hhsc.ca) or the secretariat (secretariat@cmbes.ca).
The CMBES Peer Review Committee continues to meet and is currently working on improving the audit process and on the surveyor guidance document. Requests for peer review continue to come in form
various organizations.
Mike Capuano, CBET/CCE; Chair, Peer Review Committee
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Meet the New CMBES Executive!
President
Past President
Vice President
Mike Capuano, CBET, CCE
Manager, Biomedical Technology
Hamilton Health Sciences
Hamilton, ON
E-mail
Martin Poulin, M.Eng., P.Eng.
Manager, Biomedical Engineering VIHA
Vancouver Island Health Authority
Victoria, BC
E-mail
Murat Firat, MSc., P.Eng., CCE
University Health Network
Manager, Medical Engineering Department
Toronto, ON
E-mail
Treasurer
Professional Affairs
Kyle Eckhardt MEng
Clinical Engineer
Health Sciences Centre,
Winnipeg, MB
E-mail
Andrew Ibey,
Director, Clinical Engineering
St. Paul’s Hospital,
Vancouver, BC
E-mail
Membership
Sarah Kelso
Regional Manager, Clinical
Engineering Program
Winnipeg, MB
E-mail
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Publications
Mohcine El Garch, B.ing., M. Sc.
Healthcare Technology
Project Manager
Groupe Biomédical Montérégie
Montreal, QC
E-mail
Awards
Evelyn Morin, PhD
Professor, Dept of Electrical &
Computer Engineering, Queen's
University, Kingston, ON
E-mail
Conference Planning
Murray Rice, MHSc, PEng
Imaging Group Services Manager
Department of Medical Engineering
Mount Sinai Hospital and the University Health Network
E-mail
A message from new president, Martin Poulin!
Greetings/Salut CMBES Members,
The new executive for 2014-2016 have been transitioning over the last few months and settling into their new or changed
roles. We will be working shortly on this year’s goals and objectives. These goals and objectives will draw from the Strategic Plan initiatives established in 2010. One of the primary objectives achieved by the previous executive was to set up an
electronic platform to more effectively manage our membership including automated communication, online payments and
structured report generation. I wish to extend a big thanks to Murat Firat and Michael Hamilton for their work choosing and
setting up our new membership communication platform. It has had some bumps, but we continue to affect repairs when
required.
The other big change this past AGM was the creation of the new Associate Member category. After much consultation
with CMBES members on how to reach out to the non-managerial /non-supervisory Biomedical Engineering community,
we have created this new Associate Member category. This new membership category is being offered at the low rate of
$45 to encourage Biomedical Engineering Technologists in the hospital environment or medical device support industry to
become members. The CMBES vision is to be the national Society and professional home for medical and biological engineering in Canada and we cannot do that effectively without the participation of frontline technologists. So, if you are a
manager/supervisor, please encourage your staff to become members and get involved. This membership category is also
open to individuals living outside of Canada or those members who are unemployed or who are on unpaid leave from their
regular employment or studies (e.g. family leave). Associate members shall retain voting privileges, but shall not hold office in the Executive.
The other news is that we now have an International Outreach committee that is doing work with our Ghana biomedical
engineering colleagues, which may be of interest to some of you thinking to apply your skills overseas in a philanthropic
role.
This newsletter expands on some of the initiatives and activities of the society, so please enjoy the read. If you would
like to get more involved with the society, please feel free to contact any of the executive for opportunities.
Martin Poulin, M.Eng, P.Eng.
CMBES Secretariat, 1485 Laperriere Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1Z 7S8, Tel: 613.728.1759, secretariat@cmbes.ca
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Check out the Forum!
Go to cmbes.ca and log into your account. The discussion board promotes networking with peers similar to a
Listserv but more comprehensive. It supports categories established by the CMBES to allow focused discussions.
Conference Planning
by Murray Rice, Conference Planning Chair
Future Conference Locations
Our national Conference is held in locations across Canada from year to year.
The schedule of future Conferences is:
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2015 CMBEC38, Toronto, ON [2015 World Congress] June 7-12, 2015
2016 CMBEC39, Calgary, AB
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CMBES Soapbox
Viewpoints on Soapbox may not
reflect those of the CMBES.
New Membership Category:
It’s time to open things up!
By Mike Capuano, CBET, CCE
CMBES Vice President
After several years of basically static CMBES membership numbers and limited representation from the clinical
engineering community, the CMBES Executive have approved
a new membership category to attract potential members that
occupy largely non-leadership roles. The category comes with a
significantly reduced annual membership fee of $45 (from
$130). This is expected to draw interest from those who, historically, were not able to obtain employer support for the cost
of joining CMBES. With this new rate, employer support or
paying for it personally becomes much more feasible. The new
category rate will be trialed for 3 years in order to determine the
effects and/or benefits of this strategy.
The new category (Associate Member) comes after
several years of consideration and, more recently, a similar action taken by AAMI to create a new category which allows non
-leadership candidates a less expensive option to join.
The Associate Member rate will also apply to all
members outside of Canada (international rate). We hope this
will attract additional membership as well. The CMBES feels
that by increasing membership, we hope to increase the knowl-
edge pool and foster new ideas. Attracting more volunteers for
committees and various initiatives is also anticipated.
There are potentially hundreds of individuals that work
in biomedical engineering as BMETS including those working
for several vendors and/or manufacturers in Canada. With bigger numbers comes a stronger voice. We encourage those who
have considered joining CMBES previously to now reconsider.
Those who are just learning about us, your timing is perfect,;
consider joining the CMBES as an Associate Member.
Benefits to Associate Members are the same as with
full membership. They include reduced rates for conferences
and webinars, special access to the CMBES Website (bylaws,
newsletter, membership directory, etc), and discounts on job
postings, CMBES publications, and CMBES store items.
Associate Members will also have voting privileges.
By this we hope to increase interest in the society and its future
direction.
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Feature Article
BC Hospitals Lead the Way to
a Shared CMMS
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New Edition of the Clinical Engineering
Standards of Practice (CESOP)
Now Available
Literally years went into the making of this highly anticipated
document which includes dozens of updates and revisions to
the 2007 edition CESOP. The CMBES wishes to thank all of
the members of the development committee as follows: Bill
Gentles (Chair), Anthony Chan, Marc d'Entremont, Tim
Rode, Bob Dony, Glen Hughes, John Inch , Kelly Kobe, Darrel Nilsson, Mario R. Ramirez, Chris Rouire, Gurpreet Saini,
and Gnahoua Zoabli. The new standards now feature over 70
standards of which contain numerous updates. Although
some modernization and realignment has occurred based on
new developments in healthcare, the release continues to
maintain a direct focus on Clinical engineering programs and
their objectives. The original Clinical Engineering Standards
of Practice for Canada was published in 1998. It was recognized that for this Standards of Practice document to remain
relevant to Canadian Clinical Engineers, it must undergo periodic reviews and updating. A second edition was published in
2007. The work on the 2014 edition began in February of
2013. A working draft was presented at the CMBES conference in Ottawa on May 24, 2013. Input from the conference
was used to revise the working draft. It
was then circulated to the full membership for another round of comments.
The final document was presented to
the membership for approval by electronic ballot after being presented at a
workshop at the CMBES conference in
Vancouver on May 23, 2014. The resulting votes were Yes=24 and No=0.
This third edition cancels and replaces
previous editions. The revised Standards of Practice document is available to members at no
charge. The cost for non-members remains unchanged from
the previous document. All organizations considering peer
review would require a copy of this document. To order a
copy of the Standards in PDF format, go to the CMBES web
site at www.cmbes.ca.
Presenting the 2014 CMBES Clinical Engineering Standards of Practice at CMBEC37 in Vancouver. Dr. Bill Gentles speaks
along with Dr. Gnahoua Zoabli, Mario Ramirez, Kelly Kobe, Tim Rode, and Dr. Anthony Chan.
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CMBES Webinar Series
Webinar Schedule for 2013/14:
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6.
7.
8.
Early Warning Monitoring Systems in Non-critical Care Settings - October 18, 2013
Medical Device Cybersecurity - Risks and Legal Review (Part 1) - November 8, 2013
CSA Standards: An Update for Clinical Engineering - December 6, 2013
CMEPP: An Alternative to OEM Contracts - Cancelled
Closed-Loop Infusion Systems Series - March 28, April 11, April 25, 2014
Medical Device Cybersecurity - (Part 2) - September 19, 2014
The New CMBES Clinical Engineering Standards of Practice - Date to be Announced
3D Printing, Can it Help Clinical Engineering? - Date to be Announced
Missed a Webinar? Download it from the Store at www.cmbes.ca.
Membership and registrant discounts apply.
Peer Review Certificate Awarded
at ACCES19 in Charletown
CMBES Peer Review continues to be an objective for clinical
engineering centres in Canada. The team was invited to review the Health Technology and Data Management program at Eastern Health in St. John’s in October of 2013.
Eastern Health operates all health care facilities on the Avalon, Burin and Bonavista Peninsulas. They have 925 acute
care beds, including 87 critical care beds, in 17 facilities. The
peer review focused on 3 sites, Health Sciences Centre (St.
John’s), St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital (St. John’s), and Carbonear General (Carbonear). The Biomed program consists of
over 25 staff. The CMBES Certificate of Peer Review was
presented at the ACCES19 conference in Charletown which
took place in June of 2014. ACCES is the Atlantic Canada
Clinical Engineering Society.
EH Regional Biomed Mgr, Fraser Fry and CTO, Ron
Johnson accept the Certificate for CMBES Peer Review at
the ACCES19 banquet in Charletown.
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CMBEC37 [Gatherings]
Executive Committee Meeting
Martin presents gift to keynote speaker
Jennifer Arntorp of Sorin Canada.
Tony, Mario, & Jean promote WC2015.
ECRI VP, Jim Keller Speaks.
WC2015 booth activists.
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CMBEC37 - Clinical Engineering
Program at the Podium
Kelly Kobe
Tim Rode
Andrew Ibey
Navtej Virdi
Marie-Ange Janvier
Kyle Eckhardt
Rachel Zhang
Gnahoua Zoabli
Doug King
John Zienaa
Sharzad Mirzazadeh
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CMBEC37 - Banquet and Awards
Sincere thanks from Gord.
CMBEC37 Chair Martin Poulin acknowledges organizing committee.
Presenters on ‘Improving the effectiveness of Device Donations’
Martin Poulin (incoming President)
looks on as Murat Firat (outgoing
President) addresses audience.
Gord McConnell accepts Outstanding Biomedical Engineer
Award from Martin Poulin.
Anthony Chan presents Outstanding
BMET to Adam Majewski (right).
CMBES President, Murat Firat presents certificates of appreciation to all volunteers.
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CMBEC37 - More Pics
These photos were taken by Treasurer, Kyle Eckhardt. To view or download more photos, Click Here.
From the CMBES Secretariat Office, Anne Stacey and
Dawn Wilson of the Willow Group stand in front of a Beluga whale at the Aquarium Banquet Centre.
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CMBEC37 - More Pics
These photos were taken by Treasurer, Kyle Eckhardt. To view or download more photos, Click Here.
Martin Poulin provides opening remarks at a keynote session.
Past President, Murat Firat.
Free H. Willy, M.Sc., PhD, P.Eng, CCE
Physician/EHR Consultant, Dr. Christina Vuksic stresses the importance of the electronic
health record during her keynote presentation.
Cai Long of Women and Children’s Hospital in
Vancouver places his exhibit passport in the ballot box.
The CMBES
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Images from AAMI 2014 in
Philadelphia
Maria Cvach from Johns Hopkins speaks on Alarms Management issues.
Harken Memorial Lecture and Awards Luncheon
Ken Maddock of Baylor Health Care (TX) takes questions after talk
on AAMI’s ‘Medical Device Supportability Leading Practices publication.’
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Members take side trip to
ECRI Institute
Founder Dr. Joel Nobel’s Resuscitation Table on display
ECRI’s Stacey Turnbull
and Bill Gentles
ECRI Institute engineer with Bill, John, and Mike
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Leon Katz, O.C., O. Ont., Member Emeritus of the CMBES,
named a Fellow of The Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC)
(15 March, 2014)
The Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), of
which the CMBES is a member, includes as its goals
to promote awareness of the history of engineering in
Canada; enhance the recording of engineers’ contributions to the nation's development; develop and
promote continuing education; initiate and facilitate
interdisciplinary activities and services; lead member
societies in defining and building the future of engineering; and to advocate the values and benefits of
engineering.
On 15 March, 2014, five senior medals recipients, including Commander Chris Hadfield, were
presented at the 2014 Awards Gala in recognition of
their outstanding achievement or service to the engineering profession.
Eighteen engineers, including Ottawa resident Leon Katz, O.C., O. Ont., were inducted as
Fellows of EIC for their exceptional contributions
to engineering in Canada.
A Biomedical engineer, Leon Katz devoted
his career to improving patient care and safety.
One of the first to specialize in clinical medicine, Katz invented, innovated, and hand-built a wide
range of hospital instruments: Canada’s first heartlung pump for open heart surgeries; first fetal heart
monitor; infant incubator; scanner-printer to detect
radioactive iodine uptake in thyroid disease; highspeed contrast injector for angiography. Then, he
frequently operated these new devices during clinical
procedures!
Operating his own original heart-lung bypass
machine, Katz was the Perfusionist for Canada's first
successful open-heart surgery, and for thousands of
subsequent surgeries.
At Health Canada, he established new legislation for medical devices.
One outstanding contribution, affecting millions worldwide, was his discovery and correction of
the backflow hazard from evacuated blood collection
tubes used to gather blood samples.
Leon Katz is an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has been honoured with the Order of Ontario,
the Living Legend Award from the World Society of
Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons, and as “Member Emeritus” of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society, of which he was a founder and is now
the first EIC Fellow.
Newsletter Flashback: 1
October 1988 - Vol. 23, No. 2
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October 1991 - Vol. 26, No. 2
September 1994 - Vol. 29, No. 2
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September 1994 - Vol. 29, No. 2
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CMBEC37 Paper Award Winners
First: Gillian Cook, BIOMECHANICAL OPTIMIZATION OF THE ANGLE AND
POSITION FOR SURGICAL IMPLANTATION OF THE DEPUY SILENT HIP IMPLANT
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Second: Jing Xu, NON-INVASIVE FLOW CONTRAST IMAGING OF BLOOD VESSELS
IN HUMAN RETINA
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Third (tie): Samantha Grist, 3D CELL CULTURE WITH INTEGRATED OXYGEN CONTROL AND MEASUREMENT
Third (tie): Melissa Barazandegan, SELF-ASSESSMENT OF INSULIN SENSITIVITY
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Main Research Award: Nick MacKinnon, MULTIMODE IMAGING APPLIED TOWARD
DIAGNOSIS OF SKIN CANCER
Elevate your profile - become a CMBES
committee member!
The CMBES executive is interested in building our committees. If you think you have the
right stuff, have a desire to contribute, and want become part of a dynamic team; then
this is for you. Contact the CMBES Secretariat or any of the executive members if you
are interested in any of the following portfolios:
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Membership
Awards
Professional Affairs (Peer Review, CE/Biomed Week, Standards of Practice)
Publications and Marketing
Future Conference Planning
Conference Organizing Committees
CMBES Secretariat, 1485 Laperriere Avenue, Ottawa, ON
K1Z 7S8, Tel: 613.728.1759, secretariat@cmbes.ca
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CMBES AWARDS
Awards Chair
Evelyn Morin
The Awards Committee workings on CMBES 2015 Awards.
The CMBES Award Categories are:
Outstanding Canadian Biomedical Engineer
This CMBES Award was established in 1989 and is presented to a Canadian biomedical engineer who has made outstanding contributions in the field of biomedical engineering. Such achievements can be in the form of scientific or technical developments as well as a broad-spectrum of areas such as leadership, service and organizational skills that contributed
to the improvement of health care delivery in Canada, or prominence in organizations concerned with biomedical engineering at the national or international level. Achievements for consideration shall have taken place during the three years immediately preceding the award year.
A potential candidate must be a professional engineer who is a member in good standing of CMBES and actively engaged
in biomedical engineering activity in Canada. The award will be presented annually at the CMBES Conference. This award
will be made only if a worthy candidate is proposed.
Outstanding Canadian BMET
This CMBES Award was established in 1982 and is presented to a Canadian BMET to recognize excellence in the field of
biomedical engineering technology. This award is presented to a technician or technologist who has distinguished him or
herself in one or more of the following areas:
scientific or technical abilities
exceptional service and/or technical skills
outstanding contributions to the improvement of health care technology
notoriety in the profession of biomedical engineering technology at the national and/or international level.
A nominee must be a certified BMET or eligible for certification as a BMET and must be a member in good standing of
CMBES. The nominee must be actively engaged in some form of biomedical engineering technology in Canada. Achievements for consideration shall have taken place during the three years immediately preceding the award year. The award
will be made only if a worthy candidate is proposed and will be presented annually at the CMBES Conference.
Early Career Achievement Award
This CMBES Award, established in 2007, is intended to recognize young professionals who have demonstrated outstanding performance and achievement in the early stages of their career. To be eligible for this award a candidate must be
a member in good standing of CMBES, who graduated from a College or University program related to biomedical engineering in the broadest sense and has been working in the field for a maximum of 5 years. This award will be presented to
an individual who has consistently demonstrated exceptional skills in such areas as: client services, technical performance,
sophisticated scientific or technology development. The award will be made only if a worthy candidate is proposed and
will be presented annually at the CMBES Conference
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Special Membership Recognition/Honours
Special Membership status is awarded only to distinguished individuals who have made significant contributions to the profession of biomedical engineering and to CMBES in particular. Special Membership status are awarded in the following
three categories:
Fellow
A fellowship may be conferred by the CMBES Executive, upon recommendation of the Awards Committee, to a member of
the CMBES with an exceptional record of accomplishments and service to biomedical engineering whether in practice, development or research. The accomplishments shall have contributed to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology, and in so doing, bringing significant value to CMBES and the profession. The candidate shall have
been a full member of the CMBES for a minimum of 10 Years. Fellows, upon retirement are exempt from paying fees and
retain their privileges in CMBES.
Emeritus
Emeritus status is conferred by the Executive, upon recommendation of the Awards Committee, to an experienced and distinguished member of CMBES, who has substantially retired, for outstanding achievement and contributions throughout his
or her career. This honour recognizes individual excellence and years of exceptional dedication, leadership, loyalty and
service to the profession. Society Emeritus members are exempt from paying membership fees, but are no longer voting
members.
Honorary Member
Honorary membership is a significant honour bestowed by the Executive, upon recommendation of the Awards Committee
to an extraordinary individual, who is not a member of CMBES, but has distinguished him or herself by contributing to the
objectives of the Society or has performed meritorious service on behalf of the Society. Honorary Members do not pay dues
nor do they have voting rights in the Society.
We are also perusing the possibility of new award categories. If you have any suggestions for any additional
awards please contact me.
The Awards Committee is also looking for volunteers, as we have a couple of vacancies. We typically meet
monthly on-line via Go To Meeting. Meetings can last from 30 to 60 minutes.
If you have any suggestions or wish to volunteer please click on Evelyn Morin.
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Images from CESO Conference,
St. Michaels Hospital, January 2014
Vince Lam (left), Mgr, Clin. Eng. at St. Mike’s presents with colleague from the SMH IS department.
CESO President, Bill Gentles address attendees.
CESO Conference Exhibit Hall
Jeremy Jennison (Hamilton Health Sciences)
tries out Intuitive’s daVinci console simulator.
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Images from CESO Conference,
St. Michaels Hospital, January 2014
Paper Presentation Award Winners
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Treasurer Update
by Kyle Eckhardt, M.Eng
Dear Colleagues,
I hope you all had an enjoyable summer and were able to spend time outdoors with family and friends. My summer was incredible. Lots of weekend getaways all across the province, weddings, cottages, biking, camping, climbing, swimming. Manitoba has lots to offer. I hope we will have an opportunity in the near future to host a conference in Winnipeg so we
can show you first hand how much the prairies have to offer.
From the Treasury side of things, the draft 2013 audited financial statements have been voted on. For the first time in over a
decade CMBES has a new auditor, KHM Chartered Accountants, an accounting firm. There were many changes to how our
statements were audited. It was a learning curve for me. They helped us eliminate a longstanding liability on our books
(RESNA) and updated the petty cash account. They also are taking a different approach reporting annual revenue. Income received for conferences in the next fiscal year is being deferred to that year where it was not in the past. These
new processes caused delays in finalizing the audited statements and prevented membership from voting on the statements at
CMBEC 37 in Vancouver.
Onto CMBEC 37, although the conference was a tremendous success from an education and networking perspective, I am
sad to report that the conference fell short of its income targets. The cause was similar to last years missed target. Overall registration numbers met their targets but there were fewer full conference registrations than predicted. Daily registrations dominated
conference attendance for the second year in a row. I will be investigating the root cause of this with the Executive this fall in an
attempt to create a more financially viable conference in 2016.
A final note on CMBEC 37, I took many pictures at the event and have posted them onto the web. Please feel free to have a
look and download any that are of interest.
https://picasaweb.google.com/102701075170571555529/CMBEC37?
authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCPPX0OWT9b7l6QE&feat=directlink
For our next conference, The World Congress, the Finance Committee has been on break for July and August. Before we
went on break we presented a budget to the conference chairs and host sponsors. With the budget approved, meetings will resume shortly as we prepare for registration to open later this fall. I will have more updates for you in the next newsletter. As an
aside, please consider submitting a "velfie" to the website. www.wc2015.org
Finally, webinars are back this fall starting with the second part of the Cyber Security series. Check out what is available at
www.cmbes.ca.
I wish you all a sunny warm September. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me .
Thank you for reading and bye for now.
Kyle Eckhardt, MEng
E-mail
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A Word from CADTH...
CADTH — A Source of Evidence for Biomedical Engineers
When assessing biological and medical systems, CMBES members may find themselves asking where they can go for the
latest evidence-based information and resources on medical device technologies to inform their work.
It may come as a surprise to many that this information exists close by — at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH). As an independent, not-for-profit organization, CADTH produces credible, impartial advice and provides evidence-based information about the effectiveness and efficiency of health technologies (devices and
equipment, medical and surgical procedures, drug and vaccines).
Some CMBES members may already be familiar with CADTH by having attended past workshops, stopping by CADTH
information booths at CMBES conferences, or having connected with CADTH Liaison Officers at the local level for support on specific projects.
Through the CADTH website, visitors can access CADTH’s findings, recommendations, and intervention tools, many of
which would be of interest to biomedical engineers.
Projects in progress:
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Smart Infusion Pump use in Hospitalized Patients: Clinical Safety and Guidelines
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Single-Use Medical Devices Reprocessed by Third Party/Licenced Reprocessors:
Patient Benefits and Harms, Cost-Effectiveness, and Guidelines

Positive Emission Tomography in Neurology and Cardiology: Guidelines and Recommendations
These reports and more are available as open access at www.cadth.ca. CMBES members are also welcome to contact
CADTH at requests@cadth.ca, or via their jurisdictional CADTH Liaison Officer (www.cadth.ca/en/services/liaisonofficer), to discuss evidence needs and request support.
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Update on 2015 World Congress in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Toronto June 7 to 12, 2015.
Congress organizing activities for WC2015 are well under way. The Conference Organizing
Committee (COC) has met every single week since October and continues to coordinate
hundreds of aspects leading up to the Congress date of June 7, 2015. These include 2 live
meetings in Toronto at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre so far. Subcommittees are also
working hard to bring success to this significant event. These include the Scientific Program,
, International Advisory, Publicity, Continuing Education, Sponsorship, and Finance committees. These include members from around the world. Checking out the website is a must
(www.wc2015.org). Try your hand at submitting a ‘velfie.’ You could win your own free registration to the Congress or a $200 or $100 credit towards registration. WC2015 will have
hundreds of sessions, keynotes, and workshops presented by scientists and engineers from
around the globe. Attendance is expected to be over 2000. Awarded by the IUPESM
(International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine), the CMBES and
COMP (Canadian Organization of Medical physicists) have partnered to organize this spectacular event.
Check out the Velfies!
WC2015 Youtube channel
Here’s one that looks at servicing
a linear accelerator!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=4Tg1puitGdk
A velfie from our WC2015 Cochairs Drs. Tony Easty and David
Jaffray.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?fe
ature=player_detailpage&v=NTo7
AhrLgAw
Sponsorship/Exhibit Package
Submitted by Mike Capuano, COC Treasurer, WC2015
CANADIAN MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
SOCIETY
SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DE GÉNIE BIOMÉDICAL
Thanks to our sponsors:
Links:
CMEPP
InfuSystem
CANADIAN MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
SOCIETY
SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DE GÉNIE BIOMÉDICAL
Thanks to our sponsors:
Links:
CMEPP
InfuSystem

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