Keynote Speaker
Bertil Andersson, Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
Professor Bertil Andersson is a plant biochemist of international reputation and is the author of over 300 papers in photosynthesis research, biological membranes, protein and membrane purification and light stress in plants.
He was educated at Umeå and Lund Universities in Sweden. He started his research career at Umeå after which he became a Professor of Biochemistry and later Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences at the University of Stockholm. In 1999 he was the Rector (President) of Linköping University, Sweden until the end of 2003. In 2004 he joined the European Science Foundation in Strasbourg as its Chief Executive.
From 1989 to 1997, he was member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry (Chair 1997), later becoming a member of the Nobel Foundation (2000-2006) and he is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Nobel Foundation.
He continues to hold academic appointments as Professor of Biochemistry at Linköping University and Adjunct Professor at Umeå University. He is also a visiting Professor and a Fellow of Imperial College London.
Bertil Andersson has been a member of the boards of several Swedish and international foundations and learned societies, including a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Australian Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea and holds honorary doctorates from several universities.
He is also a research adviser to the Swedish government and was, between 2004 and 2007, the Vice President of the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB) of the European Commission. He has also been an adviser to business activities in the area of biotechnology and pharma.
He was appointed Provost of Nanyang Technological University in April 2007.
Amsterdam
José PS Henriques,
Academic Medical Center
Dr José PS Henriques (1966) gained his medical degree in 1992 from the University of Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in Medicine of the University of Groningen. He completed his Cardiology training at the Hospital de Weezenlanden in Zwolle and fellowship of Interventional Cardiology in Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam, where he currently is the Head of the catherization laboratory. |
Japan
Setsuo Takatani
Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Setsuo Takatani is currently Vice President and Professor at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan. He is one of the founders of ISRBP society in 1993 in Houston, served as the Secretary General, board members, and organised the 13th ISRBP in Tokyo in year 2005 as Congress President. He has contributed to development of various clinical rotary blood pumps including Nikkiso pump, Kyocera Gyro pump and currently working on commercialisation of mag-lev centrifugal pump MedTech Dispo and paediatric centrifugal pump TinyPump having ultra-small prime volume of 5ml. |
Australia
Kaitlyn Lam
Royal Perth Hospital
Dr Kaitlyn Lam trained in Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant at Royal Perth Hospital and recently completed an Echocardiography/MRI Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research interest has been focused on the use of echocardiography to assess right ventricular function in heart failure patients. |
Tomonori Tsukiya
National Cardiovascular Centre
Dr Tomonori Tsukiya is the group leader in the Department of Artificial Organs, National
Cardiovascular Center of Japan. He graduated from Kyoto University, Dept. Mechanical Engineering in 1993. He obtained his PhD, in Engineering from Graduate School of Kyoto University in 1997. His academic interests are on Fluid Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. |
Austria
Francesco Moscato
Medical University of Vienna
Francesco Moscato graduated in 2004 at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Calabria (Italy). He received there his PhD in 2008 with a dissertation on the interaction of the cardiovascular system and rotary blood pumps. He has been working since 2006 at the Center for Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Medical University of Vienna (Austria), where he is currently employed as Post-Doctorial Fellow. |
Yukiko Yamada
Tokyo Women’s Medical University
Graduated from Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Women’s Medical University (TWMU) in 2004. Joined the specialty of cardiovascular surgery at TWMU in 2006. Since 2007, researching on implantable LVAD. |
Heinrich Schima
Medical University of Vienna
Prof. Dr.Ing. Heinrich Schima: born 1957; Study of Electronics and Control, at the Technical University Vienna; PhD.Thesis 1985 cum laude; Since 1985 in the Artificial Heart Program of the Med. Univ. Vienna, Austria; Focusing on technical aspects of clinical application, monitoring and physiological adaptive control of blood pumps. Past President of ISRBP, President elect of ESAO. |
Takashi Yamane
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Dr Takashi Yamane, AIST, Japan, is a research scientist in the field of medical engineering in artificial heart. He has patents in monopivot centrifugal pump and in hydrodynamic bearing pump, which are planned to be products in Japan. He also developed flow visualisation technique to evaluate blood cell stresses. He established guidelines for MCS and has now another position in reviewing the medical devices. His works are not only in engineering but also in administration. |
Georg Wieselthaler
Medical University of Vienna
Bio unavailable at time of print |
USA
Reynolds M Delgado III
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
Bio unavailable at time of print |
Belgium
Bart Meyns
Gasthuisberg University Hospital
Bart Meyns is a Professor and Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Gasthuisberg University Hospital (Katholieke Universiteit), Leuven, Belgium. In addition to his medical degree, Dr. Meyns received a Ph.D in 1997 with his thesis, “Ventricular Support with Miniature Rotary Blood Pumps” and a degree in hospital management with the thesis “International Cooperation in Pediatric Surgery”. His primary interests are clinical applications of mechanical support systems, experimental research in mechanical support and congenital heart surgery. |
Brian W Duncan
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Dr. Duncan is the Medical Director for Cleveland Clinic's Emerging Businesses. In addition, Dr. Duncan has Staff appointments in Cleveland Clinic's Departments of Paediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Biomedical Engineering and Transplant Center. Dr. Duncan is an expert in paediatric mechanical circulatory support and is the Principal Investigator for the NIH-funded PediPump paediatric VAD development project. |
Germany
Andreas Arndt
Berlin Heart GmbH
Andreas Arndt received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering in 1994 and his Ph.D. degree in control engineering in 2009, both from the University of Rostock, Germany. After a research stay at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, from 1994 to 1995, he joined Berlin Heart, Germany, in 1996. He is currently Head of electronics and control systems development. |
Aly El-Banayosy
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Dr. Aly El- Banayosy is a professor of Medicine and Surgery at The Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center specialising in the post operative management of open heart surgery patients, VADs and ECMO. In August 2008 he became the Medical Director of the Heart and Vascular Institute Intensive Care Unit and the Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support program at The Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. He has in 10 months quadrupled the VAD patient population and has been an ECMO program that is unrivaled in the United States . His previous tenure was at the Heart Center North Rhine-Westphalia at the Ruhr University in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. |
Hendrik Heinz
Berlin Heart GmbH
Bio unavailable at time of print |
Mark J Gartner
Ension, Inc
Mark Gartner received Master of Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in both Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering and a MBA in 1999. Dr. Gartner began his career in 1988 as a Clinical Bioengineer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Gartner co-founded Ension, Inc. in 2001 where currently serves President and oversees all design and engineering activities. |
Johannes Mueller
Berlin Heart GmbH
Bio unavailable at time of print |
Torre A Guillermo
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Methodist DeBakey Heart Center, The Methodist Hospital
Bio unavailable at time of print |
Armin J Reininger
University Clinic Munich
Prof. Dr. med. Armin J. Reininger, M.D., Ph.D is attached to Transfusion Medicine / Hemostaseology University Clinic Munich, Germany, since 2001. Prior to that he was attached to The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA from 1999 to 2001 and MGH-Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA in 1999. He received the Gotthard-Schettler-Preis prize in 2007 and Merit Award from The American Society of Hematology in 2003. |
James Kirklin
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Bio unavailable at time of print |
Thorsten Siess
ABIOMED Europe GmbH
Dr. Thorsten Siess received a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Aachen Technical University, Germany and a Ph.D. degree in 1998 from the TU Aachen. He started his professional career 1992 as a scientific member at the Helmholtz Institute Aachen as a co-worker to Helmut Reul. At Helmholtz he was involved in the design of rotary pumps ranging from extracorporeal centrifugals to long term implantable ventricular assist devices. During this time he developed the technology, which served as a platform for the entire Impella product portfolio. As a co-founder of the Impella Company in 1998 he worked as Manager R&D and CTO. In May 2005 ABIOMED, Inc., Danvers acquired the Impella CardioSystems AG and Dr. Siess was appointed to join ABIOMED as its CTO. |
James Lee
WorldHeart Inc.
Mr. James Lee is the Director of Engineering with over 30 years at WorldHeart Incorporated. Mr. Lee has been a key consensus standard contributor with contributions to the original ASIAO/STS reliability recommendation, the AAMI MCSD TIR, and the latest reliability recommendation update. Mr. Lee has served as Co-Chair of the AAMI MCSD TC and Chair of the NCTI reliability subcommittee. |
France
Pascal LePrince
Pitié-Salpétrière
Bio unavailable at time of print |
James Long
INTEGRIS Advanced Cardiac Care
James W. Long, MD, PhD currently serves as Director of INTEGRIS Advanced Cardiac Care in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. As a cardiothoracic surgeon his work with advanced heart failure has included high risk heart surgery, advanced Mechanical Circulatory Support and heart transplantation. He has been a leader with initiatives to improve outcomes, quality of life and cost effectiveness. |
Japan
Kou Imachi
University of Tokyo
Waseda University
Tohoku University
Osaka Institute of Technology
Kou Imachi, a Mechanical Engineering graduate, Kyoto University, received Ph.D. in Medical Science from Univ. of Tokyo in 1981. He was Professor of Institute of Medical Electronics and Biomedical Engineering, Graduate School of Medicine, Univ. of Tokyo, from 1993. He retired in 2004 and moved to Tohoku Univ. Biomedical Engineering Research Organization, at Sendai, Japan until 2009. Now he is Emeritus Professor of Univ. of Tokyo, Guest Professor of Waseda University, Tohoku University and Osaka Institute of Technology. His professional research areas are artificial organs (artificial heart, artificial valve), biomaterials, medical devices. He published more than 400 original papers. |
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Yoshiyuki Taenaka
Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine
National Cardiovascular Centre
Professor Taenaka is the current President of International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps and Past-President, International Federation for Artificial Organs. He graduated from Osaka University Medical School in 1976. He held the position of Director, Department of Artificial Organs, National Cardiovascular Center (NCVC), Osaka, from 1995 to 2007. Currently he is a Professor of Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, since 1999 and Deputy Director, Research Institute, NCVC, since 2007. |
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