Fueled by cupcakes and rock & roll from BEDrock band, thousands gathered to celebrate the 2018 BMES Annual Meeting. 

Smashing previous records, more than 5,300 people attended the Atlanta meeting. 

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Women in BME Luncheon: Jennifer West

Support the people in your network

For even the most accomplished people, career paths are often less thought out than some might think, said Dr. Jennifer West at the BMES Women in BME Luncheon Friday. At one point, West thought she'd pursue being a veterinarian tech. She ended up pursing biomedical engineering, and is currently a professor at Duke University conducting  biomaterials and tissue engineering research.

Even though careers can take unexpected turns, one thing that should stay constant is building a solid network of colleagues, and supporting those colleagues, West said.

"It is important to support all the people in your network," she said to nearly 500 attendees of the lunch. From acting as a mentor, to nominating colleagues for awards, West stressed the importance of continually nurturing networks. 

 

Athanasiou Award Session and Journal Awards

The inaugural Athanasiou Annals of Biomedical Engineering Student Awards session took place Friday afternoon at the 2018 BMES Annual Meeting. 

The purpose of the Athanasiou endowment is to further the field of biomedical engineering. The initial funding for the endowment came from a generous series of gifts from Kyriacos A Athanasiou and his wife Kiley Athanasiou, who both attended the event. 

Athanasiou is the former editor in chief of the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. The current editor, Stefan Duma, organized today's event.

Earlier in the day, the Society's three journals presented their awards for the most cited, most downloaded and editors' choice awards.  

 

NIH NIBIB Lecture: Lihong V. Wang

The continuing partnership between NIH NIBIB and BMES continued today with Dr. Lihong V. Wang presenting the NIH NIBIB Lecture. 

Wang's talk focused on his imaging research. 

The talk was titled World's Deepest-Penetration and Fastest Cameras: Photoacoustic Tomography and Compressed Ultrafast Photography.