BHI 2018 Organizing Committee

Conference Co-Chairs

Dimitrios I.Fotiadis, JBHI EiC, Univ of Ioannina, Greece
Julien Penders, Bloomlife, USA
May D. Wang, Georgia Tech and Emory Univ, USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Jie Liang, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Constantinos S. Pattichis, Univ of Cyprus, Cyprus
Georgia Tourassi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

HIMSS-EMBS Liaison Co-Chairs

Elliot Sloane, Center for Healthcare Infor Res & Policy, USA
Stephen Wong, Houston Methodist Hosp & Cornell Univ, USA

Special Session Chairs

Konstantina Nikita, National Tech Univ of Athens, Greece
Bahram Parvin, Univ of Nevada, USA

Workshop Chairs

Omer T. Inan, Georgia Tech, USA
Guoliang Fan, Oklahoma State Univ, USA

Rapid Fire Chairs

David Clifton, Univ of Oxford, UK
Misha Pavel, Northeastern Univ, USA

Financial Chair

Yufei Huang, Univ of Texas at San Antonio, USA

International Program Committee Chair

Metin Akay, Univ of Houston, USA

Women Activities Chairs

Maria Teresa Arrendondo, Univ Politecnia Madrid, Spain
Holly Jimison, Northeastern Univ, USA

Steering Committee

Guang-Zhong Yang, Chair, Imperial College London, UK
Stephen Wong, BHI-TC Chair, Houston Methodist, USA
Andrew Laine, BHI-TC Chair Elect, Columbia Univ, USA
Yuan-Ting Zhang, Chinese Univ of Hong Kong, China
Steffen Leonhardt, Helmholtz Institut Aachen, Germany
Konstantina Nikita, National Tech Univ of Athens, Greece
Carmen Poon, Chinese Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Technical Program Committee

Oliver Amft, Univ of Passau, Germany
Amir Amini, Univ of Louisville, USA
Wei Chen, Fudan University, China
David Clifton, Univ of Oxford, UK
Jessilyn Dunn, Stanford Univ, USA
Bjoern Michael Eskofier , FAU, Germany
Themis Exarchos, Unit of Med Tech & Intel Inf Syst, Greece
Guoliang Fan, Oklahoma State Univ, USA
Adam Hoover, Clemson Univ, USA
Omer T. Inan, Georgia Tech, USA
Steffen Leonhardt, Univ of Oxford, UK
Benny Lo, Imperial College London, UK
Esteban Pino, Univ de Concepcion, Chile
Carmen Poon, Chinese Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Matthias Reumann, IBM Research – Zurich, Switzerland
Toshiyo Tamura, Waseda Univ, Japan
Manolis Tsiknakis, TEI of Crete, Greece
Hui Yang, Pennsylvania State Univ, USA
Jinfeng Zhang, Florida State Univ, USA
Pang Zhibo, Autom SolutABB AB, Corp Res, Sweden
Xue Zong, Houston Methodist/Cornell Univ., UK
Reyer Zwiggelaar, Aberystwyth Univ,UK

BHI International Program Committee

Metin Akay, Chair (Department of BME, University of Houston, US)
Amir Amini (University of Louisville, US)
Roberto Janniel Lavarello Montero (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru)
Paolo Bonato (Harvard Medical School, US)
Estaban Pino (University of Concepcion, Chile)
Nigel Lovell (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Mohamad Khalil ( Lebanese University, Lebanon)
Caroline McGregor (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Ahmed Metwally ( University of Illinois at Chicago, US)
Emil Jovanov (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)
Constantinos Pattichis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Anna Bianchi (Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy)
Donna Hudson (UCSF School of Medicine, USA)
Toshiyo Tamura (Waseda University, Japan)
Wei Chen (Fudan University, China)
Ewaryst Tkacz (Silesian University of Technology, Poland)
Fernando Seoane Martinez (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Carole Carey (C3-Carey Consultants, LLC, US)

EMBS Staff Members

Laura J. Wolf, IEEE EMB, USA
Scott Woodhouse, IEEE EMB, USA