THE ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE
Vision & Mission
Vision
The Academy advances global health by pioneering the convergence of engineering, technology, and medicine through a multidisciplinary approach including physical sciences, life sciences, ethics, law, social sciences and the humanities.
Mission
To promote the innovations of engineering sciences and health engineering for the early prediction, early prevention, early diagnosis, early intervention, early treatment and early rehabilitation of diseases, to foster a better dialogue between "the two cultures": medicine on one side and engineering on the other for the advancement of global health, to promote the health equity and strive to improve health for all, to provide global leadership for professional development and to benefit humanity by disseminating knowledge, setting standards, and recognizing excellence.
History
History
Establishment
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Academies
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Milestones
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Advancement
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Organization
Structure
The Board of Directors (BoD) of the Academy shall be composed of the President who shall serve as the Chairman of the BoD, the 5 Vice-Presidents, the Immediate Past-President, and the Executive Director who reports to the President/the BoD and runs the daily operation. The BoD shall direct the affairs of the Academy and implement plans to carry out the objectives of the Academy. All issues of governance must have the approval of the BoD. Members of the BoD of the Academy shall be elected for a term of three years and renewed for one more term.
The Council shall consist of the Academy President, Vice-Presidents, Immediate Past-President, Executive Director, at least 15 members of the elected academy councilors, and 3 members of the International Advisory Committee.
The BoD shall be the body that deals with the issues of concerns on the research and education, professional activities, and other technical aspects on mentoring the future advancements of health engineering and biomedical technology.
International Advisory Committee shall be the body that deals with the issues to help the Academy to cultivate sustained international collaborations, and help to develop and implement strategies to enhance the success of the Academy to accomplish its objectives.
AEM is governed by ...
Our Officers
Our Fellows
M. JAMAL DEEN
Professor and Senior Canada Research Chair in Information Technology, McMaster University, Canada
ZHIPEI LIANG
Professor of Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
NITISH THAKOR
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, US
RATKO MAGJAREVIĆ
Professor, Department of Electronic Systems and Information Processing,
University of Zagreb, Croatia
CHRISTIAN ROUX
Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation,
Institut Mines-Télécom, France
NIGEL LOVELL
Head of Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia
SHUMING NIE
Professor of Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
DONG SUN
Chair Professor Professor of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
BRADLEY NELSON
Head of Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
PETER E. LOBIE
Co-Director of the Precision Medicine and Healthcare Research Center, Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute
GUANG-ZHONG YANG
Director of the Hamlyn Centre, Imperial College, UK
ALISON NOBLE
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Oxford University, UK
MAY WANG
Director of Biocomputing and Bioinformatics Core, Emory-Georgia Tech, Georgia
ANDREW LAINE
Director of the Heffner Biomedical Imaging Lab, Columbia University, USA
SHANKAR SUBRAMANIAM
Chair and Professor of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, USA
BIN HE
Department Head of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
JIANWEI ZHANG
Director of Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems,
University of Hamburg, Germany
XIAOCHUAN PAN
Professor of Radiology, Radiation and Cellular Oncology, the University of Chicago
