Federal Funding Opportunities for Bioengineering
Organizer and Chair: Semahat S. Demir, Ph.D, National Science Foundation
Saturday, Sept 2, 2006; 2.00 PM - 3.30 PM

Successful Grant Proposal Writing
Organizer and Chair: Semahat S. Demir, Ph.D, National Science Foundation
Sunday, Sept 3, 2006; 9.00 AM - 10.30 AM

Critical (Medical) Information Protection: a privacy/ security and information assurance debate
Organizers: G. Coatrieux¹, L. Kun²
(1) LaTIM, INSERM U650, Dpt. ITI, GET-ENST Bretagne, France
(2) IRM College - National Defense University.
Saturday, September 2, 2006; 10.45 AM-12.15 PM

Coordination of Physiological Rhythms
Organizers: Dirk Hoyer, PhD (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany)  and Jean Clairambault, PhD (INRIA Rocquencourt, France)
Wednesday, August 30, 2006; 1.00 PM - 5.30 PM

Advances  in Medical Infrared Imaging  
Organizers: Nicholas A. Diakides, Advanced Concepts Analysis, Inc., USA
Wednesday, August 30, 2006; 1.00 PM - 2.30 PM

Industry-Academia Interaction
Organizers: Dorin Panescu, Chair, Technical Committee on Therapeutic Systems and Technologies, IEEE
Wednesday, August 30, 2006: 1.00 PM - 4.15 PM

Special Forum on EMBS Publications
Organizer: Bin He, University of Minnesota
Thursday, August 31, 2006; 2.00 PM - 3.30 PM

Recent Advances in Multi-Modality Vascular Imaging
Organizer: Dr Jasjit S. Suri, Idaho State University
Thursday, August 31, 2006; 2.00 PM - 3.30 PM

System Theory in Medical Diagnostic Devices
Organizer: Gail Baura, PhD, Vice President, Research, CardioDynamics
Wednesday, August 30, 2006: 1.00 PM - 2.30 PM

Biomedical Information Network:  Networking and Wireless Integration of Medical Devices on a Common and Shared Infrastructure.
Workshop Organizers: Paul Frisch, Ph.D. (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
Wednesday, August 30, 2006: 1.00 PM - 4.30 PM

The MyHeart Project - Fighting Cardiovascular Diseases by Prevention and Early Diagnosis
Organizer: Joerg Habetha,  Philips Research Laboratories, Aachen, Germany
Wednesday, August 30, 2006; 2.45 PM – 4.15 PM

New Techniques in Rehabilitation
Organizer: Jules Dewald, Northwestern University
Wednesday, August 30, 2006: 1.00 PM - 2.30 PM

Technical issues of Image registration in PET-CT and SPECT-CT systems
Organizers: Lionel S. Zuckier, M.D.  (New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ), Pat Zanzonico, PhD.  (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY)
Thursday, August 31, 2006; 2.00 PM - 3.30 PM

Special Session: Information-Based Support Technologies for Persons with Visual Disabilities
Organizer: Tetsuya Watanabe (Nat. Inst. of Special Education, Japan) and Michio
Miyakawa (Niigata Univ., Japan)
Chair: Michio Miyakawa, Ph.D., Center for Transdisciplinary Research, Niigata
University, Japan
Session Date and Time: TBA
Saturday, September 2, 2006; 3.45 PM-5.15PM

Special Session:Nerve stimulation as a clinical rehabilitation technique
Organizers:Thomas Sinkjaer, Ph.D. and Dejan Popovic, Ph.D., Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction (SMI), Aalborg University, Denmark
Date and Time: TBA