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| | 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
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 Wang
B, Bittleman K, & Kerwin R, Panel Discussion:
FDA
Third-Party Device Servicing Report Follow-up, AAMI Annual Meeting,
June 2019
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Wang
B & Pandit P, Reduce Costs and Downtime with Artificial Intelligence-Enabled
Predictive Maintenance, AAMI Annual Meeting, June 2019
Presentations
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Wang
B, Evidence-Based Maintenance, 41 Congreso Nacional de Ingeniería Biomédica,
León - Mexico, 18-20 de Octubre, 2018
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Wang B, Benchmarking Your Clinical
Engineering Program, NCBA Annual Conference, Aug 23, 2018
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Wang B, Fake News, Alternate Facts and
Legends in CE/HTM, 2018 NCBA Annual Conference, Aug 22, 2018
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Wang B, Fake News, Alternate Facts and
Legends in CE/HTM, 2018 CEAI Conference, August 15-16, 2018, Oakbrook
Terrace IL
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Wang
B, Bittleman K, Grimes S & Kerwin R, Panel Discussion: How To
React to FDA’s Report and Possible ANPR on Device Servicing?, AAMI Annual Meeting, June 2018
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Wang B, Evidence-Based Maintenance, CMBEC41/ACCES23, Charlottetown, PEI -
Canada, May 8-11, 2018
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Wang B, Management of
Medical Equipment: Planning and Maintenance,
National Cheng Kung University Medical College - Tainan, April 12, and
National Taiwan University - Taipei, April 13, 2018
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Wang B,
Current status of FDA review of device servicing regulation and Risk
management and incident investigations, Food and Drug Administration of
Taiwan (TFDA), April 11, 2018
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Wang
B, Evidence-Based Maintenance (Keynote Address), BioClinic 3,
Beirut-Lebanon, October 26, 2017
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Fedele J & Wang B,
Fake News, Alternate Facts and Legends in Clinical
Engineering, MD Expo – Fall 2017, Orlando FL, October 7, 2017
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Wang
B, Application of Quality, Risk & Asset Management Principles to Clinical
Engineering, Second Int'l Clinical Engineering & Health Technology
Management Conference, São Paulo-Brazil, Sept 23, 2017
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Wang
B, Fake News, Alternate Facts and Legends in Clinical Engineering
(Keynote Address), 2017 Colorado Association of Biomedical Equipment
Technicians Symposium, Aurora CO, Aug 11, 2017
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Wang
B, Proving Safety & Effectiveness of Your HTM Program to Accreditation
Organizations and Regulatory Agencies, AAMI Annual Meeting, June 2017
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Wang
B, Review of Evidence of Service-Related Incidents Caused by Medical
Equipment,
AAMI Annual
Meeting, June 2017
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Wang
B, Evidence Based Maintenance – Are we there yet? XVII National Congress of
the Italian Clinical Engineering Association (Associazione Italiana
Ingegneri Clinici – AIIC), Genoa-italy, April 6-8, 2017
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Wang
B, Future challenges and solutions in Health Technology Management. XVII
National Congress of the Italian Clinical Engineering Association
(Associazione Italiana Ingegneri Clinici – AIIC), Genoa-italy, April 6-8,
2017
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Wang B.
Presentations at
National Taiwan University, Changhua Christian Hospital, National Cheng
Kung University's
College of Medicine, and Taiwan FDA. July 2016
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Wang
B, Equipment Maintenance & Equipment Management workshops, 6th
CEAI (CE Assoc Illinois) Conference, Aug 19-20, 2015, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
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Wang
B,
Clinical Engineering Best Practice and Benchmarking, World
Congress Med Phys & Biomed Engineering, Toronto, Canada, June 12, 2015
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Wang
B, Principles of Clinical Engineering, delivered as part of the
"Flying Over the Hump" HTM lectures in
four major Chinese cities (Chongqing, Guangzhou, Jinan, and Wenzhou), as an
invited faculty by the Clinical Engineering Branch of the Chinese Biomedical
Engineering Society, May 2015
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Wang B & Fedele J,
A Practical
Approach — How to comply with the revised equipment management standards
issued by CMS and TJC, MD Expo 2015, Nashville TN, March 31, 2015
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Wang B, CMS Revised Equipment Management Standards,
keynote address, 2015 Annual Conference
of the Indiana Biomedical Society, Indianapolis IN, January 24, 2015
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Wang B & Fedele J, How to
Comply with the Revised Equipment Management standards issued by CMS and TJC?,
MD Expo 2014, Orlando FL,
Oct 2, 2014
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Wang B,
The American Medical
Equipment Service Market - Experience and Lessons Learned, The First Chinese
International Congress of Clinical Eng & Information Technology, WuXi,
China, Sept. 26, 2014
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Wang B, Clinical Engineers’ role in Global Health,
International Symposium of Biomedical Engineering, Inst. Tecn. De Monterrey,
Monterrey City-Mexico, April 24-26 of 2014
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Wang B, Equipment Maintenance & Equipment Management workshops, Tec-Saúde/ACEW
Florianópolis-SC, Brazil, Oct. 8-10, 2013
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Wang B, Clinical Engineering Productivity Benchmarking, North Carolina
Biomed Association (NCBA) Annual Conference, Sept. 6, 2013
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Wang B & Fedele J,
Evidence-based Maintenance: Comparison of OEM versus hospital – developed
maintenance procedures and schedules, MD Expo 2013, Reston VA, April 3, 2013
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Wang B, Incorporación Estratégica de Tecnología
Médica. 8o Foro Nacional de Technologías para la Salud.
Centro Nacional de Excelencia Technológica en Salud, Ciudad de Mexico,
Mexico, Nov 8, 2012 (link)
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Wang B, Evidence-Based Medical Equipment
Maintenance Management, 3rd Chilean Biomedical Engineering Meeting - Tercera
Jornadas Chilenas de Ingeniería Biomédica, Sept 26-28, 2012, Viña del Mar -
Chile (link)
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Wang B, Lies, damned lies and statistics,
presented at the session A Comparison of Healthcare Technology Benchmarking
Products, AAMI Annual Conference, June 4, 2012.
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Wang B, An estimate of the sentinel events caused
by maintenance omissions, presented at the session Understanding the Impact
of the New CMS Maintenance Rule, AAMI Annual Conference, June 3, 2012
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Wang B & Fedele J,
A
Continued Look at Maintenance Effectiveness,
MD Expo Spring 2012, April 12,
2012
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Evidence-Based Maintenance: How to
Evaluate the Effectiveness of your Maintenance Strategies,
Intermountain Clinical Instrumentaion
Society (ICIS) Quarterly Meeting, May 5, 2011.
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Wang B & Fedele J,
Implementing Maintenance
Effectiveness, MD Expo 2011,
Napa, CA, March 26, 2011
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- Wang B &
Poplin B,
Large Scale Medical Equipment
Maintenance: Experience of the Largest American Independent Service
Organization,11th
Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Eng Sub-Society of the Chinese Medical
Society & Clinical Eng Digital Medicine Conference, Shanghai, Sept.
9-11, 2010
- Evidence-Based Maintenance: How to
Evaluate the Effectiveness of Your Maintenance Strategies? 15th Annual
Atlantic Canada Clinical Engineering
Conference, Moncton - Canada, April 28, 2010
- Evidence-Based Maintenance,
ACCE Teleconference, Dec 17,
2009
- Participated in the Second Technical
Advisory Group Meeting on Health Technology, Nov 8-9, 2009, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
- Invited Member of Panel Discussion on
Regulatory Issues & Medical Ethics Concerns at
Transitioning Global Health Technologies from Labs to LDCs, Rice
University, Nov 6, 2009
- First Indo-US Advanced Clinical
Engineering Workshop, Thiruvananthapuram, India - Oct 5-9, 2009 (academic
leader)
- Medical Equipment Maintenance
Management, parts I, II, and III
- Clinical Engineering Benchmarking
- Evidence-Based Maintenance: To PM or
not to PM, You Decide!
AAMI-2009, June
6-8, 2009, Baltimore MD.
- Evidence-Based Maintenance, 18th
Annual Meeting of the Indiana
Biomedical Society, Jan 17, 2009
- "Comparação quantitativa de serviços
de Engª Clínica" - IV Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Eng.
Clínica-ABEClin, Salvador BA - Brasil, Nov. 19, 2008
- Evidence-Based Maintenance,
2008 MD Expo,
Orlando FL, Oct. 25, 2008
- Evidence-based medical equipment
maintenance management, 25th Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Association of
Wisconsin (http://www.baw.org/), Green
Bay, WI, Oct. 8, 2008
- Evidence-Based Maintenance: To PM or
not to PM? You Decide!, 2008
CABMET Symposium - Keynote Address, Colorado Association of Biomedical
Technicians - CABMET, Aug. 16, 2008
- Theory and Practice of a Statistical
Sampling Maintenance Strategy, AAMI Annual Conference & Expo, San Jose, June
1, 2008
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JCAHO Roundtable:
Evidence Based Medical
Equipment Maintenance,
NCBA 29th Annual
Symposium & Expo, Pinehurst, NC, December 4, 2007
- Evidence-Based Medical Equipment
Maintenance, New Jersey Biomedical Engineering Society, Robert Wood Johnson
Hospital, New Brunswick, November 6, 2007
- Adv. Clinical Engng. Workshop,
Florianopolis, Brazil, November 27 - December 1, 2006
- Evidence-based equipment
maintenance management
- Maintenance management
performance monitoring and improvement
- 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
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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
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- Performance Metrics for Medical
Equipment Management Programs, CEMC Technology Management Subcommittee
Mid-Year Tele-Conference - Jan. 31, 2005
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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Reunión sobre Sistemas de Información para el Mantenimiento de Equipos
Médicos", Pan-American Health Organization (PAHP/WHO), Camaguey, Cuba,
5/6-16/1989
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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
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Health Equipment Planning and Procurement: Experience from a Developing
Country, Proc. p. 194
- Clinical Engineering in Brazil,
Proc. p. 196
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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)
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IV Mediterranean
Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering, Sevilla - Spain, 1986
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Netto, E.J. &
Wang, B., A Radiometer for Phototherapy,
pp. 708-711
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Mühlen, S.S. &
Wang, B., A Percutaneous Ultrasonic Lithotriptor,
pp. 705-707
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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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