Day/Date

Time

Thursday

11 August 2005

Friday

12 August 2005

0800-0900

Registration

0900-0930

Opening Ceremony

Welcome Address

¨          Organising Chairman

Denny Lie

Opening Address

¨          Guest of Honour,

Prof Su Guaning, President , NTU

Symposium – Medical Informatics 1

(0900-0945)

¨          Medical informatics in the new millennium

KC Lun

(0945-1015)

¨          IT in clinical healthcare administration

Wong Merng Koon

Chair: Wong Merng Koon

0930-1030

Plenary Lecture 1

Systems integration in genomics and biomedicine

Edison Liu

Chair: Soo Khee Chee

1030-1100

Tea Break and Exhibition

(1015 – 1045)

Tea Break and Exhibition

1100-1200

Plenary Lecture 2

Research in Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

Jackie Ying

Chair: Michael Khor

Symposium – Medical Informatics 2

(1045-1115)

¨          Nursing IT

Tan Siok Bee

(1115-1145)

¨          Using reconfigurable architectures for biomedical computation

Bertil Schmidt

Chair: Wong Merng Koon

1200-1315

Showcase of NTU-SGH Joint Projects

¨          Biomedical Chip for Diseases Diagnosis Via Cell Biophysic Properties

Liu Ai Qun

¨          Adult bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells for cardiac tissue engineering

Philip Wong

¨          Rapid Portable System for Screening Tuberculosis

Lim Chu Sing

¨          A bilayered scaffold for the development of composite skin construct

Alvin Chua & Leong Meng Fatt

¨          Piezoelectric ventricular assist pump

Ma Jan

Chair: Tay Boon Keng

(1145-1215)

Lunch Symposium

Biotechnological inventions & intellectual property; A challenge for patent law(s)

Gianfranco Matteucci

Chair: Philip Wong

(1215 – 1315)

Lunch

1315-1400

Lunch

(1315-1340)

Moderated Poster Session

Moderators: Ang Wei Tech/Png Hong Hock

1400-1500

Plenary Lecture 3

distributed diagnosis and home healthcare (D2H2)

Tjin Swee Chuan

Chair: Chan Yew Weng

(1315-1415)

Free Paper 3 (Medical Informatics/Medical Signal Processing)

Chair: Kwek Leong Chuan & Philip Wong

(1415-1455)

Free Papers 4 (Advanced Biomaterials/Modelling/Tissue Engineering)

Chair: Frank Fuss & Guo Chang Ming

1500-1610

Free Papers 1 (Biomechanics)

Chair: Kwoh Chee Keong & Denny Lie

(1455-1525)

Tea Break and Exhibition

(1525-1625)

Free Papers 5 (Nursing)

Chair: Kaldip Kaur & Cheam Boon See

1610-1630

Tea Break and Exhibition

1630-1740

Free Papers 2 (Diagnostics)

Chair: Lim Chu Sing & Mathew Sebastian

(1625 – 1630)

Closing Remarks

Co-Chairman

Kwoh Chee Keong

1740

End of Day 1

(1630)

End of Symposium