| | Please find below a list of presentations that I will make and made in different parts of the world, mostly since 1988, in reverse chronological order. This list is incomplete and I will try to add as I find time. Upcoming Presentations  |  Adv. Clinical Engng. Workshop, Florianopolis, Brazil, November 27 - December 1, 2006 |
Prior Presentations | Revised JCAHO Standards and their impacts on Clinical Engineering, AAMI Conference & Expo, June 24-26, 2006, Washington, DC | | Clinical Engineering Benchmarking, 29th Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 1-3, 2006 | | Clinical Engineering Benchmarking: Failure rate as an indicator, NCBA 27th Annual Symposium & Expo, Pinehurst, NC, December 2005 | | Medical Equipment Management in the United States: Lessons learned in 30 years, keynote address at the 2005 International Forum on Safety and Quality Control of Medical Devices and the Annual Meeting of Clinical Medical Engineering Society of Shanghai Medical Association, Shanghai, China, Oct. 21, 2005 (http://www.tech-ex.com/jsp/streaming/equipment/exhibition/safety_2005/home.jsp) | | Conferência de Serviço Tecser, June 16, 2005, as part of Hospitalar 2005 expo in Sao Paulo, Brazil | | Planejamento e Incorporação de novas Tecnologias: uma necessidade na viabilização e no crescimento sustentado de Unidades Assistenciais, Seminário de Engenharia Clínica, XV Congresso Brasileiro de Engenharia e Arquitetura Hospitalar e VI Congresso Internacional de Engenharia e Arquitetura Hospitalar, June 16, 2005, Sao Paulo, Brazil | | Update on Revised JCAHO Standards and How They Impact Clinical Engineering, AAMI Conference & Expo, May 14-17, 2005, Tampa, FL | | | | Performance Metrics for Medical Equipment Management Programs, CEMC Technology Management Subcommittee Mid-Year Tele-Conference - Jan. 31, 2005 | | JCAHO Roundtable: 2004 Clinical Engineering Standards: What's new, what was proposed and what happened, NCBA 26th Annual Symposium & Expo, Pinehurst, NC, December 7, 2004 | | JCAHO 2004 Standards: Proposed Revisions to the Clinical Engineering Standards, AAMI Annual Conference & Expo, Boston, June 7, 2004 | | Drafting EC Standards for JCAHO, CEMC Technology Management Subcommittee Mid-Year Tele-Conference - March 5, 2004 | | Attributes Sampling Applied to Clinical Equipment Inspections, ACCE Teleconference, Dec. 18, 2003 | | Future of Clinical Engineering in Industry: A Rental Company’s Perspective, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering - WC 2003, Sydney - Australia, August 24-29, 2003 (presented by Jim Wear) | | Attributes Sampling Applied to Medical Equipment Inspections, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering - WC 2003, Sydney - Australia, August 24-29, 2003 (presented by Jim Wear) | | Statistical Sampling Applied to Clinical Equipment Inspections - attributes sampling, AAMI Conf. & Expo 2003, Long Beach CA, June14-17, 2003 | | Acquisition Strategies for Medical Technology, International Forum for Promoting Safe and Affordable Medical Technologies in Developing Countries, May 19 – 20, 2003, The World Bank, Washington, D.C. | | Technology Policy for Health Care System: Assessment, Planning, and Acquisition, The Second Joint Meeting of the IEEE-EMBS and BMES, Houston, TX - 23-26 October 2002 | | Repair or Replace? The Hospital CFO's Point of View, ACCE Teleconference, Sept. 19, 2002 | | Adv. Clinical Engng. Workshop, Guayaquil - Ecuador, Sept. 9-13, 2002 | Safety & Performance Inspections | | Example of a statewide CE program | | Quality Assurance and Voluntary Standards in USA | | Repair, Replacement & Retirement Criteria |
| | Quality Management for a Nationwide Fleet of Rental Biomedical Equipment, NYSSRC-SEC, Great Neck, NY 7/18/02 (abstract) | | Quality as a tool for Risk Reduction: Example from a service company, AAMI Conf. & Expo 2002, Minneapolis, MN, 6/1-4/2002 | | HealthTech 2002, Baltimore, MD, 4/21-23/2002 | B. Wang & D. Simmons, What ISO 9001:2000 means to remarketers and servicers | | J. Dyro, R. Daken & B. Wang, Clinical Engineering in Emergency Preparedness |
| | Tendencies of Technology Management Models, 3rd Symposium of Hospital Technology, 3/22/2002, São Paulo, Brazil (via televideoconference) | | ISO 9000 as an alternative to FDA regulation for medical equipment servicers and remarketers, Int'l Conf. on ISO 9000, Las Vegas, 2/25-27/2002 (see Abstracts) | | SAFHE & CEASA National Biennial Conference & Exhibition, Sun City, So. Africa, 10/3-5/2001: | First and Third World Clinical Engineering (keynote speech) | | Strategic Planning for Clinical Engineering Departments (workshop) |
| | Adv. Clinical Engng. Workshop for Portuguese-speaking countries, Sao Paulo, Brazil, June/4-6/2001: | Strategic Planning for Health Equipment | | Financial Management of Service Support | | Accreditation, Quality Standards, and QA Program for Equipment | | Preventive Maintenance: Criteria for Inclusion of Equipment and Frequency Determination |
| | Adv. Clinical Engng. Workshop, Kathmandu, Nepal, 4/9-13/2001: | Health Equipment Policy for Sao Paulo, Brazil | | Strategic Planning for Health Equipment | | Health Technology Assessment | | Planning, Selection & Procurement of Health Equipment |
| | The future of Clinical & Biomedical Engineering Profession (keynote address), Virginia Biomedical Assoc. Annual Meeting, Sept. 2000 (picture) | | HealthTech 2000, Dallas, TX, 4/30-5/3/2000 | How Can Clinical Engineering Help Further Reduce Medical Errors? | | JCAHO EC Standards: Interpretation Challenges & Improvements Needed |
| | World Congr Med Phy Biomed Eng, Chicago, IL, 7/22-28/2000 | Quality Management for a Nationwide Rental Fleet | | An Improved Method for Including Equipment in the Technology Management Program and Determining its Inspection Frequency |
| | Equipment Donation Guidelines, Adv. Clinical Engng. Workshop for participants from Eastern Europe and Latin America, Am. College of Clinical Engng., Chicago, IL. 7/22/00 | | The use of technology in nursing, 7th Nursing Technology Conference, São Paulo, Brazil. April 4-7, 2000. | | Management Aspects of Hospital Technology Incorporation: Management Strategies (via televideoconference), 1st Symposium of Hospital Technology for Clinicians, São Paulo, Brazil, June 26, 2000. | | Adv. Health Techn. Mgmt Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa, 11/8-12/1999 | Budgeting and Financial Reporting | | Quality Assurance and Improvement | | Technology Mgmt Policy for Sao Paulo State Brazil |
| | Nuevas Técnicas de Gestión del Manten. Hosp., Lima, Peru, 5/27-28/99 | Maintenance Quality Assurance: Example from a Rental Company | | Regulation of Medical Devices by FDA |
| | FDA's Proposed Regulation of Servicers: The Sequel, HealthTech '99, Baltimore, MD, 4/26/99 | | CD-Rom: Perspective from a Nationwide Rental Company, AAMI 1998 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 6/2/98 | | FDA's Proposed Regulation of Servicers, HealthTech '98, Nashville, TN, 5/6/98 | | Int'l Health Techn. Forum, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 11/3/97 | Electromagnetic Interference on Medical Devices, | | Regulation of Medical Devices by FDA |
| | AAMI 32nd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 6/7-10/1997 | B. Patel, B. Wang & E.B. Sloane, Monitoring Product Performance Reports (PPR) to Improve Rental Equipment Quality | | B. Wang & E.B. Sloane, Management of a Nationwide Rental Fleet |
| | Quality Assurance for a National Rental Fleet, Adv. CE Workshop, Washington, DC, 6/6/97 | | E.B. Sloane & B. Wang (co-chairs), Migration of technology from health care institutions to home care settings, AAMI 31st Annual Meet & Expo, 6/1-5, Philadelphia, PA 1996 | | B. Wang, Advance Clinical Engineering Workshop, Orbis International/ACCE (several modules), Beijing, China, Nov. 1995 (picture) (report) | | AAMI 30th Ann. Meet., 1995 | E.B. Sloane & B. Wang, Technology migration from the hospital - Perspectives from an equipment rental company | | E.B. Sloane & B. Wang, Increasing the awareness of liability issues in the subacute care facility |
| | B. Wang, Equipment acquisition, and life-cycle maintenance and costing, Proc. 10th National Conf. Medical Technology Management, ASHE, Atlanta, Georgia, 1994, pp. 304-325 | | World Congr. Med. Phys. Biomed. Engng, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1994 | E.J. Netto, J.J. Peterson & B. Wang, Fiber-optic sensor-based instrumentation for gastric pH measurement, Proc. p. 158 | | E.B. Sloane, B. Wang & R.L. Morris, Quality assurance program for a large, distributed fleet of medical equipment, Proc. p. 258 | | B. Wang, C. Toro, E.M. Wassermann, T.A. Zeffiro, R.W. Thatcher & M. Hallett, Integration of electrophysiological data and brain images, Proc. p. 620 |
| | E.B. Sloane & B. Wang, Liability issues in home health care, AAMI 29th Ann. Meet., 1994 | | B. Wang, The impact of Government medical device regulation in healthcare: Perspective of a rental company, Michigan Society for Clinical Engineering (MSCE) Symposium, Feb. 1994 | | B. Wang, Equipment planning and selection, AAMI 28th Ann. Meet., 1993 | | Adv. Clin. Engng Workshop, WHO/PAHO/IFMBE/ACCE, 5/8-6/6/1993, Boston, MA (member of organizing committee and taught several modules) | | B. Wang, Maintenance and cost of medical equipment in hospitals, World Congr. Med. Phys. Biomed. Engng., Kyoto, Japan, 1991 | | Advanced Clinical Engineering Workshop, PAHO/IFMBE/ACCE, May 15-June 7, Washington, 1991 (member of organizing committee and taught several modules) | | B. Wang & C.P. Cândido, A computerized health equipment management system, Proc. VI Conf. Medical Informatics - MEDINFO, Beijing, China, pp. 1172-1175, 1989 | | V Mediterranean Conf. Med. Biol. Engng.,1989 | V.L.S.N. Button & B. Wang, An optical pattern stimulator for evoked potential, Proc. pp. 182-183, | | H.S. Lopes, E.J. Netto & B. Wang, A microprocessor-based phototherapy monitoring station, Proc. pp. 298-299 |
| | Reunión sobre Sistemas de Información para el Mantenimiento de Equipos Médicos", Pan-American Health Organization (PAHP/WHO), Camaguey, Cuba, 5/6-16/1989 | | Training of Clinical Engineers (workshop member), International Certification Commission-World Health Organization, AAMI 24th Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, 5/13-17/1989 | | Interregional Meeting on Manpower Development and Training for Health Care Equipment Management, Maintenance and Repair, WHO/Health Secretariat of Sao Paulo/State Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, 1989 (local host) | | Databases for planning and procurement of health equipment, Proc. IEEE-EMBS 10th Ann. Int'l Conf., New Orleans, pp. 1877-1878, 1988 | | World Congr. Medical Phys. & Biomed. Engng, San Antonio, TX, 1988 | Health Equipment Planning and Procurement: Experience from a Developing Country, Proc. p. 194 | | Clinical Engineering in Brazil, Proc. p. 196 |
| | Maintenance and Repair of Health Care Equipment in Brazil, Interregional Meeting on Maintenance and Repair of Health Care Equipment, WHO, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1986 | | International Conference of Medical Device Regulatory Authorities, PAHO/WHO/US-FDA, Washington, DC, USA, 1986 (as the Brazilian representative) | | IV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering, Sevilla - Spain, 1986 | Netto, E.J. & Wang, B., A Radiometer for Phototherapy, pp. 708-711 | | Mühlen, S.S. & Wang, B., A Percutaneous Ultrasonic Lithotriptor, pp. 705-707 |
| | Wang, B. & Bellentani, I.F., Maintenance of Medical Equipment: Experience from a Developing Country, Proc. 9th. International Congress of Hospital Engineering, Barcelona, Espanha, 1986 | | Seminario Iberoamericano de la Industria de Productos Sanitarios, PAHO/ World Health Organization-WHO/Spanish Government, Madrid, Spain, 1985 (member of Brazilian delegation) | | Inter-American Conference on Health Technology Assessment, Pan-American Health Organization - PAHO/CNPq, Brasilia, Brazil, 1983 | | Conference on "Appropriate Health Care Technology Transfer to Developing Countries", Project HOPE, Millwood, VA, 1982 (as the Brazilian representative) (report: Appropriate health care technology transfer to developing countries, L B Russell, Health Affairs, Summer 1982; 1(3): 133-141) |
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