Monday, September 20th
		Edmund Y. S. Chao, PhD Presentation Title: The Contributions of Mechanical Engineers in Orthopaedic Devices Design, Testing & Application Dr. Edmund Y. S. Chao is currently an Emeritus Professor at the Mayo Clinic & Johns Hopkins University; Clinical Professor at UC Irvine; Chair Professor at National Chang-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Senior Medical Consultant at Aspen Medical Products Inc., Irvine, CA; Senior Medical Consultant at Show-Chuan Health Care System, Chang-Hua, Taiwan; and President at BJED Consulting, LLC Dr. Chao entered Deere & Co. as a senior engineer working on simulation and analysis of agricultural and earth-moving equipment using both analog and digital computers from 1964 to 1967. He served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanics and Hydraulics at the University of Iowa. Then, he moved to the Mayo Clinic and created its first Biomechanics Laboratory there while serving as a Consultant in Orthopaedics and Professor of Bioengineering from 1972-1992. In 1993, he took an early retirement from Mayo and moved to the Johns Hopkins University as a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and started a new biomechanics research program and was appointed the Vice Chair of Research in the Department. He holds adjunct appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Hopkins. He retired there in 2005 and moved to California serving as a voluntary Clinical Professor at UC Irvine. He is the president of BJED Consulting, LLC. Dr. Chao received his BS degree from the National Taiwan University in 1960 and the MS degree from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1964. He worked for three years before entered the University of Iowa and pursued his PhD in Applied Mechanics from 1968-1971.
Tuesday, September 21
		Shu Chien, Ph.D. Presentation Title: Role of Hemodynamic Factors in Vascular Diseases and Device Design Shu Chien received his medical degree from National Taiwan University and Ph.D. (Physiology) from Columbia University. He was a faculty at Columbia Physiology till 1988, when he came to University of California, San Diego, where he was Founding Chair of the Department of Bioengineering and is Y.C. Fung Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine and Director of the Institute of Engineering in Medicine. In the UC System, he is University Professor and Director of the Bioengineering Institute of California. Chien has made seminal contributions to advancing the integrative approach of research at the interface of biology, medicine and engineering. His primary areas of research are cardiovascular regulation, molecular and cellular bioengineering, and endothelial cell mechanotransduction. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the ALZA Award, Daggs Award, Galletti Award, Landis Award, Poiseuille Medal, Melville Medal (twice), Founders Award of the National Academy of Engineering, and Taiwan’s Presidential Science Prize. Chien has been Presidents of the American Physiological Society, International Society of Biorheology, Microcirculatory Society, and Biomedical Engineering Society, as well as the Federation of Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB) and American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Chien is Member of all three U.S. National Academies (National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine), as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Member of Academia Sinica in Taiwan and a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.