The Whitaker Foundation
 Biomedical Engineering Education Summit
 December, 2000

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 Welcome

Burtt Holmes - "Welcome to the Attendees"
Chairman, Governing Committee
The Whitaker Foundation

Audio Only  (5:20 Minutes)

John Linehan "It's the Best of Times"
Vice President, Biomedical Engineering Programs
The Whitaker Foundation

Audio Only  (9:12 Minutes)

 Plenary Session I

Doug Lauffenburger - "Bioengineering: The New Discipline"
Professor and Co-Director, Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Health
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Peter Katona - "BME Education: Philosophical Foundations"
President
The Whitaker Foundation

320 x 240 or 640 x 480   (13:25 Minutes)

Kristina Ropella - "Real-World BME: Engaging the Students"
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Marquette University

320 x 240 or 640 x 480   (23:19 Minutes)

Paul Matsudaira - "Teaching Biology to Engineers"
Professor of Biology and Bioengineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

320 x 240 or 640 x 480   (23:32 Minutes)

Mitch Litt - "BME Laboratories"
Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania

320 x 240 or 640 x 480   (7:37 Minutes)

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Rosa Lynn Pinkus - "Ethical Issues"
Associate Director, Center for Bioethics and Health Law
University of Pittsburgh

320 x 240 or 640 x 480   (13:60 Minutes)

Plenary Session II - What Biomedical Engineers Do Now and Will Do in the Future -
The Industry and Clinical Perspective

Becky Bergman
Vice President, Materials and Biosciences Center
Medtronic, Inc.

320 x 240 or 640 x 480   (11:18 Minutes)

Vince DeCaprio
President, Drug Delivery Technologies
Becton Dickinson and Company

320 x 240 or 640 x 480   (14:20 Minutes)

Scott Donnelly
Senior Vice President
General Electric Corporate Research and Development

320 x 240 or 640 x 480   (10:02 Minutes)

Plenary Session III - New Opportunities for BMEs at the Frontiers of Technology

Robert Nerem - "Cell and Tissue Engineering"
Parker Petit Professor and Director of IBB
Georgia Institute of Technology

320 x 240 or 640 x 480   (8:26 Minutes)

Mark Burns - "Microengineering in a Biological World"
Associate Professor of Chemical and Bioengineering
University of Michigan

320 x 240 or 640 x 480   (12:25 Minutes)

Thomas Budinger - "Bioimaging"
Professor and Chairman of Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley

320 x 240 or 640 x 480   (21:05 Minutes)

Yoram Rudy - "Computational Biology"
M. Frank and Margaret C. Rudy Professor of Cardiac Bioelectricity
Case Western Reserve University

320 x 240 or 640 x 480   (16:27 Minutes)

Bernhard Palsson "Functional Genomics"
Professor of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego

320 x 240 or 640 x 480   (18:14 Minutes)

Plenary Session IV - Building Infrastructure for Successful BME Education

Donald P. Giddens
Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr. Chair
Georgia Tech/Emory BME Department
Georgia Institute of Technology - Emory University

320 x 240 or 640 x 480   (14:52 Minutes)

Clinton T. Rubin
Professor and Director
Program in Biomedical Engineering and Center for Biotechnology
State University of New York, Stony Brook

320 x 240 or 640 x 480   (16:09 Minutes)

Matthew O'Donnell
Professor and Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan

320 x 240 or 640 x 480   (16:24 Minutes)