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Reports
 Two
day National Workshop on Medical Imaging (NWMI’10)
Two-day
Workshop on MEMS - Biomedical Applications (MEMS’09)
A
brief report on the
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
NCBME - 2004
held at GITAM, Visakhapatnam between 23 & 24 December
2004 and
sponsored by the Biomedical Engineering Society of India.
First
Day 23-12-04
The
Inaugural function was started with prayer at 10.00 AM in the Central
Library auditorium. At the outset Prof. P. Ramesh, Chairman NCBME-2004
welcomed the gathering and explained the theme of the conference
namely “Development of economically feasible compact Gadgets
to take the Expensive Medical Technology to the doorstep of the
poorest of the poor of our great Nation”. This was followed
by the lighting of the lamp and inauguration of NCBME-2004 by Prof
S. R. Kasturi of TIFR, Bombay. He has spoken briefly about the application
of NMR and MRI in medicine and biology. Prof. A.G.Ramakrishnan (IISc
Bangalore), President of the Bio-Medical Engineering Society of
India (BMESI) explained the role of the Biomedical Engineer in the
service of humanity. He stressed that a country of our size needs
many National Research and Development Centres and Institutions
for promoting Bio-Medical Engineering Research. He mentioned that,
except Defence Bioengineering and Electromedical Laboratory (DEBEL),
Bangalore and Sri Chithirai Tirunal Institute, Trivandrum, there
are no Institutions dedicated to research in BME.
Dr.
M.V.V.S.Murthi, President of GITAM, while presiding over the function
gave a call to the Bio-Medical community to educate the people on
the importance of Bio-Medical Engineering. He has also assured that
he will do his best to impress upon the government on the need to
establish more R&D laboratories for Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. M.V.V.S.Murthi released a CD on “PC based Instrumentation”,
An e-book authored by Prof. P. Ramesh. This covers the PC hardware,
software, interfacing A/D and D/A Converters to the PC for data
Acquisition and analysis. Economically feasible PC based Bio-Medical
Instruments needed in the health care were also covered in this
E-book.
Dr. M.V.V.S.Murthi also released a text book on “Electronic
Devices and Circuits” authored by Prof. C.Dharmaraj and Sri
B.Tirumala Krishna. This was published by Pearson Education and
covers all the fundamentals of the Electronic devices and Circuits,
which are useful to the undergraduate students. Dr. M.V.V.S.Murthi
appreciated the efforts put in by the authors in writing these books
and appealed to the teaching community of GITAM to follow suit.
Prof.
Gopalakrishna Prabhu (MIT,Manipal), Secretary Bio-Medical Engineering
Society of India proposed a Vote of Thanks bringing the inaugural
function to an end.
BMESI
Meeting
A meeting of the members of the Biomedical Engineering Society of
India was held before lunch and passed the following resolutions
1. The Next Conference of the Bio-Medical Engineering Society of
India will be held at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore.
Prof. M.Mukunda Rao will host the Conference.
2. It is also proposed to promote the activities of the Bio-Medical
Engineering Society of India by conducting one conference in a year
by identifying the sponsor institution.
After lunch break, two parallel sessions were held, one in the Central
Library Auditorium and the other in Ambedkar Seminar Hall. The sessions
ended at 05:30 PM.
CULTURAL
PROGRAMME
The
cultural programme which was held at 06:00 PM in the Balayogi Kalapranganam,
started with a Classical Music Concert by Prof. Shankar Bhattacharya
on Sarod, Shri Indrajit Banerjee on Sitar and Shri Gowri Shankar
on Tabala. All the three are well known all India Radio artists
and have performed at several prestigious institutions in India
and abroad. It was very much appreciated by the audience including
the youngsters. This was followed by a variety entertainment programme
by the students. This started with a classical dance by Miss. Karuna
(III/IV ECE) which was in fact the best part of the students’
programme. Many students performed western dances which were appreciated
by the delegates. The programme ended at 08:30 PM followed by dinner,
which was sponsored by Sri V.Ramesh of Bhima’s Canteen, GITAM.
SECOND DAY 24-12-04
The second day’s programme started at 09:30 AM with the Key
note address by Prof. S.K. Guha, Chair Professor, School of Medical
Science and Technology, IIT, Kharagpur. During his lecture on ‘Biomedical
Engineering in the Service of Humanity’ he explained about
the male Contraceptive INJECTION which was developed and patented
by him. This is a very effective and simple injection (without any
side effects) with the contraceptive action lasting for more than
a decade. This will be very useful in population control which is
the need of the hour for India.
After
tea break (10.30 AM), two parallel sessions started simultaneously
in the Central Library auditorium and Ambedkar seminar hall. The
parallel sessions resumed again at 02.00 PM after lunch break and
continued till 03.30 PM.
VALEDICTORY FUNCTION:
The valedictory function was held at 04.00 PM in the Central Library
auditorium. After prayer, Prof P.Ramesh, Chairman, NCBME-2004 welcomed
the gathering and briefly explained about the two day deliberations.
Dr E.Pedaveeraju, Professor and Head of the department of gastroenterology
delivered the valedictory address. He has chronologically explained
the development of GASTROSCOPY, stressing the most recent diagnostic
procedures. It was in fact a very interesting lecture appreciated
by one and all. Prof S.R.Kasturi of TIFR Bombay presided over the
function and gave the concluding remarks. Dr M.V.V.S.Murthi, President,
GITAM felicitated Prof S.K.Guha, a great Biomedical Engineer of
our nation. Dr M.V.V.S. Murthi also gave away mementoes to Dr E.
Pedaveeraju and Prof. S.R.Kasturi.
Prof
S.K.Guha thanked Dr.M.V.V.S.Murthi for his felicitations and appreciated
the initiative taken by him in developing GITAM to its present status.
He also suggested to kick start a project “Technology for
the health care of the masses” to develop economically feasible
gadgets to take technology to the door step of the rural population
of INDIA. Work in this direction has already started and a brief
report is enclosed as a follow up to this.
Prof
D.Elizabeth Rani, Head of the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation
proposed a vote of thanks. The two day conference ended with the
national anthem.
A
word from the chairman, NCBME-2004.
In all, 10 sessions were conducted during the conference. Each session
started with an Invited Talk by an eminent scientist. Thus, a total
of about 65 scientific papers were presented during the conference
(for details visit us at : www.gitam.edu , NCBME-2004).
I was able to conduct the conference successfully due to the full
autonomy (financial and other) granted by Dr. M.V.V.S.Murthi, President,
GITAM for which I will ever be thankful to him.
I
am sure that the project proposed by Prof. S.K. Guha (of IIT,Kharagpur)
namely, “Technology for the health care of the masses”
will successfully be completed with the support promised by Prof.
S.R.Kasturi of TIFR, Bombay, Prof. A.G.Ramakrishnan of IISc, Bangalore,
Prof. G.K.Prabhu of MIT, Manipal, Prof. M.Mukunda Rao of VIT, Vellore,
Prof. Shankar Bhattacharya of Texas A& M University, Texas and
Dr. V.Ramachandran of the IT Services of the City of Detroit, Detroit.
I will be failing in my duty if I do not thank our principal Prof.
V.V. Kutumba Rao for his encouragement.
Puvvada
Ramesh
CHAIRMAN, NCBME-2004 E-mail: puvvadar@yahoo.com
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