The Award winner is George Martin, Sc.D., of the SUNY Downstate Medical Center (SMIC) Biomedical Department in Brooklyn, New York. This award honors an individual who is not presently an ACCE member, but is eligible for membership, for their achievements within the field of clinical engineering (CE).
George has B.S. and M.S. Degrees in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic University (Baku, USSR, 1969), and an Sc.D. in control systems from Moscow Mining Academy (USSR, 1977). He was senior scientist at Skochinsky Institute of Mining (USSR) from 1977 to 1989. After immigrating to US, he was test engineer for Frequency Electronics Inc. (Uniondale, NY), before joining SMIC. Over the past fifteen years at SMIC, first as a Senior Biomedical Engineer, and then as a Laboratory CE Supervisor since 2005, George made significant contributions to the success of this important urban medical center. He has provided outstanding services including supervising installations and incoming inspections of medical instrumentation, providing speedy resolution of various equipment malfunctions, while also addressing and resolving various CE and patient safety issues. George has become admired by his peers and highly respected by the hospital staff and patients.
The Award winner is Patrick Lynch MBA CCE, CBET, for his series of articles in the Medical Dealer magazine the past two years and for his many other public and humanitarian CE advocacy efforts such as the creation and running of FMESA.
Pat is the Biomedical Support Specialist for Global Medical Imaging (GMI), in Charlotte, North Carolina. GMI's mission is to lower the cost of high quality healthcare by being a customer-focused OEM alternative in diagnostic ultrasound. Pat's full-time job is to perform altruistic activities to benefit the BME/CE community, GMI's partner in the hospital space. Pat has focused on publishing helpful articles, delivering educational presentations, and assisting in the governance and creation of local biomedical associations. A frequent attendee at annual meetings and a common host at monthly presentations, Pat is on the road visiting hospitals and supporting biomeds at least 100 days per year. Pat goal is that biomeds 10 years from now are creating more value than ever for their employers and that they are not fighting the same battles he fought when he started as a clinical engineer over 35 years ago or as the Director of Clinical Engineering at institutions such as SunHealth/Premier, Northside Hospital, and TriMedx/Ascension Health.
Some of Pat's recent activities include assisting in the creation of new or revitalized biomedical associations in Alabama, SC, Louisiana, Kentucky and Middle Tennessee. His series "Slashing Medical Maintenance Costs" was delivered more than 15 times in 9 states in 2009 and received great reviews. Pat is on the Board of Directors or Advisory Council of 19 Biomedical Associations and is a member of 30 more.
The Award winner is Leslie R. Atles CCE, CBET, for his book A Practicum for Biomedical Engineering & Technology Management Issues, published in 2008, and his various other leadership activities and writings that have promoted improved patient safety of technology in healthcare. His book has been described as providing ".. the industry's most comprehensive collection of management, technology and reference information." His most recent writings have focused on developing a better definition of "life support equipment" as it is used by the various accrediting organizations.
Les has been both an instructor and an Advisory Chair for the Biomedical Technology program at Los Angeles Valley College. During his time there he has constructed simulated ICU and surgical rooms in which to provide students with realistic environments for simulated device incident investigations and other CE scenarios. Les has participated as a member of three clinical healthcare teams in overseas missions in which he specialized in training clinicians as well as the engineers on healthcare safety and HTM. He has worked in the field of BME/CE for the past 35 years. Currently he is director of HTM at Masterplan in Chatsworth, California.
The Award winner is Antonio Hernández EE, PE, for his work to support development of CE and healthcare technology management (HTM) throughout Latin America & The Caribbean (LAC) and globally.
At the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the regional office of World Health Organization (WHO). since 1991, Antonio is Senior Advisor, Health Services Physical Infrastructure & Technology. Currently, in the LAC, he:
- Contributes in development and strengthen of medical device regulatory programs
- Fosters national development and institutional capacity-building in science & health technology (HT)
- Builds bridges between medical & engineering programs through university engineering schools
- Facilitates access to state-of-the-art knowledge and information on HT to professionals
- Promotes and facilitates information and expertise exchange between CE and HTM; and in partnership with ACCE,
- Has organized 41 "Advanced Clinical Engineering and HTM Workshops" in the LAC, and with WHO on other continents
Antonio is editor of several PAHO technical publications on HT and telemedicine; member of the editorial board of the several journals on HT; and frequent speaker in conferences and academic centers in the LAC. He has chaired sessions and presented in conferences of the IEEE/EMBS; AAMI; Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF); HT Forums (Mexico); and AdvaMed Conference
In 1982 joined PAHO as Consultant on Engineering and Maintenance in Ecuador to organize the "National Engineering and Maintenance System" for the Ministry of Health (MoH). In 1985 was transferred to Costa Rica to organize the "National Integrated Maintenance System" for MoH and Social Security. And in 1991 was appointed as a PAHO Regional Advisor in Washington D.C., to coordinate the technical cooperation on Health Services Engineering and Maintenance in the Region of the Americas (LAC). In 1973 started his career in the MoH Colombia as National Director of the Division of Engineering and Maintenance after his graduation in Electronic Engineering from the Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia in 1972. He has studies in the fields of Electronics applied to Medicine, CE, Hospital Engineering, HTM, Health Services Management, and HTA.
Antonio has membership in: ACCE, Board Member (2001-2005); ISTAHC / HTAi; ASHE; National Capital Health Care Engineering Society (NCHES); NFPA; AAMI; IEEE/EMBS; and the Bioengineering Society of Colombia. His awards: PAHO Director Award. 2000; Healthcare Facilities Engineering Excellence Coin, NCHES, 2000; CE Excellence Coin, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 2000; AAMI/Institute for Technology and Healthcare Clinical Applications Award, Tampa Florida 2005; Honorable Mention Senate of Republic of Colombia for ‘Contributions to the CE / BME Development in the Country" Bogota, Colombia 2005 & 2008; PAHO Special Recognition" for valuable contribution to improving the health and well-being of the people of the Americas" 2006; Colombian Association of Hospitals and Clinics (H&C) and CES University Recognition for organizing the 8th Colombian Conference of H&C, Bogota 2008; Special Citation from FDA/CDRH, 2008.
The Award winner is Caroline A. Campbell MS CCE, notably for her years of leadership on the US Board of Examiners for CE Certification, and its parent entity, the Healthcare Technology Certification Commission.
Caroline received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University in 1987 and a Masters in Electrical Engineering with Medical Specialty from George Washington University in 1996. While living in the DC area, she enjoyed participating in the FDA and AHA lobby group that worked with the FCC to create the Wireless Medical Telemetry Service. She has been fortunate to lead talented groups at the Washington Hospital Center in DC and at St. Vincent Health in Indianapolis as the Director of Clinical Engineering.
Caroline has led a group of highly motivated individuals to create a highly defensible CE certification program. In that program, 78 individuals have been tested in the last 6 years. The program is constantly rejuvenated through periodically surveying the CE community to determine the body of knowledge and by development of new questions. Eligibility criteria for clinical engineers have evolved in synchrony with the recommendations of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying, a nonprofit organization comprised of licensing boards. The result is a program that is as dynamic yet as rigorous as CE itself.
The Award winner is Gary A. Evans MSEE, CCE, for his writings on Clinical Engineering staffing models in 2009, and his history of many professional development efforts in areas of certification, teaching/mentoring, and cost of ownership.
Gary has been director of Clinical Engineering, WakeMed Health & Hospitals, Raleigh, North Carolina, since 1999. He received his MS Engineering, Technology in Healthcare, Washington University in 1973 and BSEE, Syracuse University in 1971. He has served in the CE field for 37 years, and Chaired the US CE Board of Examiners from 2007-2009.
Winner: Sharareh Taghipour, PhD Candidate, Centre for Maintenance Optimization and Reliability Engineering, University of Toronto. Reliability Analysis of Maintenance Data for Medical Devices.
Runner-up: Wallace Wee, Clinical Engineering, University of Toronto. Methodology for visualization and perfusion analysis of 4D dynamic contrast-enhanced CT imaging.
The Award winner is Professor Saide Jorge Calil, Ph.D., Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, for his many years of training and leading Clinical Engineering (CE) efforts in Brazil, and for his leadership in clinical and biomedical engineering regionally and globally.
Dr. Calil received his Bachelors in EE at Mackenzie University in 1970, his Masters in Medical Electronics (Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, University of London, UK) in 1980, and his Doctorate in BME (Department of Medical Engineering & Physics King's College Medical School - University of London, UK) in 1984. As former Director of the Center for Biomedical (1987-1995), one of the leading CE centers in the country, and advisor of the Brazilian MoH, he helped on the development of the program to organize the first CE training courses (1990). He developed and coordinates a CE training course at UNICAMP since 1992 (that has placed more than 400 CEs in the health market) and coordinated 2 ACEW courses in Brazil on Risk Management.
He is author of three books and several chapters on HTM, the first to produce didactic material for this area in Brazil. He has supervised around 24 theses (Masters and Ph.D.) on Biomedical/Clinical Engineering. Since 1987, he is advisor for the MoH, the National Health Surveillance Agency (similar to FDA-USA) and the Ministry of Education. He also works as consultant for several scientific supporting agencies around the country. He fomented the creation of the Brazilian CE Association (ABECLIN) and was one of its co-founders.
His interaction between Clinical Engineering and Medical Equipment Industry in Brazil was recognized by the Award "Walter Schmidt" from the Brazilian Association of Health Marketing (2005). After six years serving as elected member of the IFMBE / Clinical Engineering Division (2003-2009), he is presently serving as one of the two co-opted members. He is also an elected member of the Administrative Council of IFMBE for the period (2006-2012) and chairman of the Working Group on Developing Countries. His experience in the CE field helped to organize and coordinate 2 workshops that resulted in a basic curriculum (endorsed by ABECLIN) that is presently used by all CE training courses in Brazil.
This is a new Award created by ORBIS International www.orbis.org and ACCE, given to the organization demonstrating significant improvements in national health technology management (HTM) structure/outcomes since ACCE and partners conducted Advanced Clinical Engineering Workshops (ACEW) in their countries.
The inaugural winner is CENGETS- PUCP, in Lima, Peru. Health Technopole CENGETS- PUCP is the National Center for Clinical Engineering and Health Technology Management, serving the Ministry of Health, based out of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. CENGETS- PUCP is co-led by Luis Vilcahuamán, clinical engineer, and Rossana Rivas, health economist, since 2005.
Since ACEWs in Lima in 2002 and 2007, improvement efforts cited by ACCE ACEW leaders Frank Painter, Tobey Clark, Antonio Hernandez, and Ismael Cordero of ORBIS International include: wider establishment of CE and HTM in Peruvian hospitals, a collaboration with University of Vermont for bilingual online course development in medical technology, and several hospital CE/HTM internships in Lima and Cusco, and others. CENGETS HTM and HTA collaborations with the US CE community and key global partners have steadily expanded since 2005. These partnerships have produced a series of events that have helped establish CENGETS as a national and regional resource, acknowledged by Health Ministries of 6 countries and PAHO, including:
- Co-organizing several international activities including capacity building and supporting institutionalization of CE, HTM, HTR and HTA in Peru and for other countries of Latin America region
- Improving Peruvian knowledge of the best CE, HTM, and HTA global practices through a sustained technology transfer (education, trainings, methods, etc.) with a key collaborators' network
- Training and Education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels on CE, HTM and HTA topics in the context of multidisciplinary and global models
- Five month CE internships for five PUCP students at the University of Vermont over the past three years resulting in capacity building in Peru
Luis has a Masters Degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina UFSC (Brazil), and an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from PUCP. He has directed the Biomedical Engineering Masters program at PUCP since 1998. Luis is a specialist in CE, HTM, and HTA, is an international PAHO consultant in HT;, researcher in Telemedicine, Physical Therapy, Technology Development and Process Management for health organizations, and collaborator for the project: "Medical Equipment Technology & Clinical Engineering Bilingual Online Course", sponsored by Pan American Health and Education Foundation-PAHEF and University of Vermont (USA). He is also co-author with Rossana Rivas of: "Clinical Engineering and Healthcare Technology Management: Advances and Proposals", publication sponsored by PAHO (Peru); is collaborator with MoH Peru, the national Social Security System, and the Andean Health Regional Commission-ORAS-CONHU.
Rossana's professional background includes a Masters in Law and Political Science applied to Management of Health & Social Organizations, distinction in Leadership, Management and Strategy of Health & Social Organizations; Uiversitè Jean Moulin-Lyon III, France, MBA studies from University del Pacifico, Peru, Political Science Masters Studies at PUCP, a Bachelors in Economics, National Mayor de San Marcos University, Peru, and Advanced Program in Health Studies at the Public Health School, University of Louvain, Belgium. She is an expert in HTM, and a professor and researcher at PUCP and the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, as well as a global liaison for collaboration with MoH Peru, the national Social Security System, and the Andean Health Regional Commission-ORAS-CONHU. She developed a professional exchange based on HTM, Innovation, Leadership and Business Planning with research laboratories of Sociology, Economics, Law, and Engineering Schools of French universities since 2004.
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