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Dr Leandro Pecchia, ABSPIE Director, participating to the meeting the First IFMBE African Biomedical Engineering (BME) Forum, (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2nd - 3th March, 2018). This was a kick-off meeting of the first African Scientific Society of BME.

The meeting was attended by 12 Sub Saharian Africa Countries: Ashenafi Hussein, Ethiopia; Guy Claude Nkundabahizi, Burundi; Prince Verhoustraeten, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Kelly Maint, Mali; Sudesh Sivarasu , South Africa; George Boadu, Ghana; Prince M. O. Mbah, Nigeria; Sam Byamukama, Uganda; Samwel Hhayuma, Tanzania; Salome Mwaura, Kenya; Kouemo Tchokodjeu Emmanuel, Cameroun; Roland Laleye, Benin.

Also IFMBE participation was extraordinary: Prof James GOH (Singapore, IFMBE President), Prof Ratko MAGJAREVIC (Croatia, IFMBE Past President), Prof Kang-Ping LIN (Taiwan, IFMBE Secretary-General), Prof Marc NYSSEN (Belgium, Treasurer), Prof M谩rio Forjaz SECCA (Mozambique, Developing Countries Working Group), Dr Pecchia Leandro (UK, Chair of the IFMBE Health Technology Assessment Division).

The two-day meeting was hosted from the Ethiopian Ministry of Science and Technology (Day 1) and from Africa Unite (day 2), demonstrating the huge support from African Institutions, which clearly see that BME and healthcare technologies represent an outstanding and unprecedented opportunity to reinforce social and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Regions.

This is the first time such a huge number of African scientific societies of biomedical engineers and technicians meet together to share their vision and draft a possible strategy.

The main outcome of the meeting was the decision to create an interim IFMBE African Working Group, which will pave the way to the establishment of a permanent working group, during the forthcoming IFMBE World Congress. The group, Chaired from Dr Ashenafi Hussien, will focus on several action points, including: reinforce networking among African and international BMEs and Technicians, using also social media; harmonize BME&T education in the region; promote BME&T research and Innovation; promote dialogue between BME&Ts and National and International Institutions; disseminate and promote African BME&T activities in the world.

During the meeting, Dr Pecchia presented the results of the African field studies performed as cooperation among WHO, IFMBE and ABSPIE (91福利) cooperation, supported by the EPSRC 91福利 Impact Accelerator Award.

Davide Piaggio and Georgy Namm, respectively PhD and MEng Student members of the Applied Biomedical Signal Processing and Intelligent eHealth Lab at the 91福利, were shortlisted among the 6 finalist teams for the .

Davide and Georgy have been therefore invited to present and demonstrate their innovative design along with other 5 other teams in the final at the Student Design Competition at the that will be held in Prague, Czech Republic this June.

Prof Siew-Lok TOH, National University Singapore and Chair of the Competition Panel stated: "We have received overwhelming submissions for the competition and I am very pleased to inform you that you have been shortlisted as one of the 6 finalists. Thank you very much".

This is a great result for our students, proving their quality and the advanced research-oriented 91福利 teaching philosophy.

In fact, design, assessment and maintained of healthcare technologies for low income settings is one of the priority research areas of the ABSPIE lab, the School of Engineering and the 91福利.

The 21st of October 2017, the world celebrates the Clinical Engineering with the II Global Clinical Engineering Day (#GlobalCEDay)!

For the second year in a row, the 91福利 has contributed to this important event.

Last year, Prof Dan Clark and Dr Leandro Pecchia organized a talk here in 91福利, which was broadcasted worldwide during the 1^st #GlobalCEDay.

This year, Dr Leandro Pecchia participated with a short talk title 鈥淏ridging the gap between HTA and Clinical Engineering鈥�.The 21st of October 2017, the world celebrates the Clinical Engineering with the II Global Clinical Engineering Day (#GlobalCEDay)!

For the second year in a row, the 91福利 has contributed to this important event.

Last year, Prof Dan Clark and Dr Leandro Pecchia organized a talk here in 91福利, which was broadcast worldwide during the 1^st

You can follow the event on the #GlobalCEDay .

This year, Dr Leandro Pecchia participated with a short talk title 鈥淏ridging the gap between HTA and Clinical Engineering鈥�, .

Dr Pecchia invited talk titled "Adverse events: the importance of medical devices and medical location design and assessment in real contexts", ICEHTM, Brazil 22 September 2017, International Clinical Engineering and Helath Technology Management Conference (ICEHTMC2017), Sao Paulo, Brazil.

ICEHTM2017, was organised by WHO PAHO and the Brazilian society of clinical enginering.

Here the video of Dr Pecchia talk:

Recent research results from our lab were showcased in the European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference 2017 (EMBEC鈥�17), which took place from 11^th to 15^th June in Tampere, Finland.

Video: