Prof. dr. ir. A.F.W. van der Steen
Ton van der Steen received his MSc degree in Applied Physics at the Technical University in Delft in 1989 and his PhD in Medical Sciences in 1994 at the University of Nijmegen. From 1994 to 1996 he was a senior scientist at the Laboratory for Experimental Echocardiography of the Thoraxcentre and since 1997 he is the head of this laboratory. Current research interests are in vulnerable plaque detection, intravascular ultrasound, ultrasound contrast agents and transducer design for special applications, including transesophegeal, three- dimensional and harmonic imaging. He is project leader of a national program on vulnerable plaque visualisation (ICIN32) and was appointed the 2000 NWO PIONIER Technical Sciences for Vulnerable Plaque Detection. In 2000 he was appointed Associate Professor at the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Erasmus University Rotterdam and in 2002 Professor in Biomedical Engineering in Cardiology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands. He is the treasurer of the Dutch Foundation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (DFUGB), the president of the section Ultrasound Techniques of this society and the Dutch representative at the Board of Directors of the European Federation Societies in Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB). He is a member of the scientific committee and/or local organisation of the semi-annual
scientific meetings of the DFUGB, the IEEE Ultrasonics symposiums, the EFSUMB, Ultrasonics International, World Conference of Ultrasonics, Acoustical Imaging and the International Conferences on Ultrasound Biomicroscanning.
Prof. dr. G.A. Truskey
George Truskey serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. He is the Chair of AIMBE's Academic Council, which includes
representatives of the vast majority of the 110 U.S. universities offering educational programs at the graduate or undergraduate level that merge biological and engineering sciences. He has been an AIMBE Fellow since 1999. Dr. Truskey has been a member of the Duke faculty since 1987. He became Chair of Duke's Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2003. While a Professor in the department, he had served as interim chair in 2000-2002. From 1985 until 1987, Dr. Truskey was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical
Engineering at Tufts University. During the same period, he was a Research Fellow in Experimental Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital of Harvard Medical School. Among other honors, he was a Whitaker Health Sciences Predoctoral Fellow at M.I.T., 1982- 1984 and won the Parenteral Drug Association's award for Outstanding Scientific Paper in the Journal of Parenteral Science and Technology in 1987 and
Dr. Truskey is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (where he is a Fellow), the American Chemical Society, the Biomedical Engineering Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research interests include the mechanisms of atherogenesis, cell adhesion, and cell biomechanics. Dr. Truskey holds a B.S.E. in Bioengineering, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania and both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Prof. dr. P.G. Katona
Peter Katona received his BS degree in electrical engineering at the University of Michigan in 1960, and his MS and ScD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962 and 1965, respectively. He was on the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Case
from 1980 to 1988. During 1989-91 he was Program Director for Biomedical Engineering and Aiding the Disabled at the National Science Foundation. In 1991, Dr. Katona joined The Whitaker Foundation as Vice President for Biomedical Engineering. His responsibility was to design and administer grant programs that would enhance and establish educational programs in biomedical engineering at US universities. In July 2000, he was appointed President and CEO, a position he held until the Foundation’s closing in June 2006. He was appointed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University in September 2006. Dr. Katona is the author of over 50 scientific papers on the control of the
cardiovascular and respiratory systems. He is also the author of several papers on biomedical engineering as a profession. He served as president of the Biomedical Engineering Society in 1984-85, and is now a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the cardiovascular section of the American Physiological Society. He served on numerous advisory committees of academic, government, and private organizations. Dr. Katona is the recipient of a
Distinguished Service Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society in 2005, and the Pierre Galletti Award from AIMBE in 2006.
Prof. dr. ir. P.A. Wieringa
Peter Wieringa obtained his MSc at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in 1980. He obtained his PhD at TU Delft on an investigation into blood and oxygen distribution in a capillary network model of the heart muscle, in 1985. From 1987 to 1991 he was a fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and in 1988 he received an International Fogarty Fellowhsip (NIH). From 1988 till 1990 he was trained in microvascular research at the University of Virginia. He continued this research at the TU Delft and the University of Amsterdam. In 1991 he became associate professor at the TU Delft in man-machine systems and studied human supervisory behaviour and reliability of complex systems, including medical. In December of 2000 he became professor and head of the Man-Machine Systems group.
W. Beerepoot
Wouter Beerepoot studies Biomechatronics at the Delft University of Technical (TU Delft). At the moment he is writing his master thesis on the modelling of the eye muscles using a 3D finite element techniques. In 2003-2005 he was a student-assistant at the department of Marketing & Communication of the faculty of Mechanical Engineering.