Collaborative biomedical engineering for open-source medical technologies

Sabato 1 e domenica 2 settembre si tiene al Centro "Le Benedettine" la conferenza internazionale "Collaborative biomedical engineering for open-source medical technologies", organizzata dal Centro Piaggio.

Le due giornate sono l'evento di apertura della Summer School "Open medical device design", parte di UBORA , un progetto che ha lo scopo di sviluppare strategie per sostenere la ricerca sulle forme sostenibili di assistenza sanitaria, realizzate attraverso la progettazione collaborativa a livello globale.

Programma

Day 1

13.30
Registration

14.30
Opening Cerimony

15.00-16.30 | Session 1
Open source medical devices: design, prototyping, tools and R&D

16.30
Coffee Break

17.00-18.30 | Session 2
Teaching methodologies on new fabrication technologies, and design approaches in the context of BME

19.00
Welcome party

Day 2

9.00-10.30 | Session 3
Needs assessment in low resources settings and high-income countries towards open source design

10.30
Coffee Break

11.00-12.30 | Session 4
Open source medical technologies for accessible and equitable healthcare

14.00
Closure

Speakers

Victor Konde,  United Nation Economic Commission for Africa, Ethiopia

Andres Diaz Landata, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

June Madete,  Kenyatta University, Kenya

Philippa Makobore, Uganda Industrial Research Institue, Uganda

John Gershenson, Penn State University, US

Leandro Pecchia, University of Warwick, UK

Alessandro Tognetti, University of Pisa, Italy

Gaetano Valenza, University of Pisa, Italy