1. Introduction

Through enthusiastic dedication of our executive board members and eager participation of our members, the Biomedical Division (BMD) has been gone through a fruitful year of 2009 and 2010.

Foreseeing the blooming demand for Medical Devices due to global aging trend and widespread of contagious diseases but the insufficient supply of BioMedical Engineers, the BMD has organized or co-organized numerous activities in collaboration with industry & universities and in financial assistance of Government in:

1.    supporting local biomedical engineering research and experimentation;

2.    supporting product design, development and commercialisation;

3.    advising the regulatory development with government & regulatory bodies;

4.    running technical training, regulatory workshops and visits.

5.    attracting and convincing more young students to pursue this prospectus profession,

The BMD has contributed best effort to serve and safe guard our society, hospitals, medical centres, medical device industry, academia and all other related stakeholders.   

Over this Session, the BMD has successfully applied for the funding under Professional Services Development Assistance Scheme (PSDAS) of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau (CEDB), which is the fourth successful PSDAS approved project of the Division. With the project titled “To Enhance the Professional Competence of Biomedical Engineers in Medical Technology and Knowledge in Medical Device Regulatory Matters in order to Capture the New Opportunities under the Expanded CEPA Framework”, new elements of regulatory affairs are introduced, in order to enhance the competitiveness of local biomedical engineers in the global medical device market by facilitating the popularization of medical device regulatory matters and application of international medical-related standards. The three major project deliverables include a 1-day Industrial Symposium on Advanced Bio-optics and Related Medical Device Regulatory Considerations, three 1-week Exhibitions in Pearl River Delta (PRD) and an International Conference on Biomedical Engineering in 2010, while the 1-day Symposium has been successfully completed on 16 April 2010 in Hong Kong Productivity Council. In addition, technical and regulatory seminars such as Biomedical Engineering & Scheme A Presentation at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Professional Development of Biomedical Engineer seminar, Green ethics and engineers seminar, Continuous Professional Development via Experience sharing in successful marketing promotion strategy from conceptual design to real product, Virtual Reality Applications for Healthcare Industry and Clinical Trial Basics for Engineers, Entering the Age of Technology - the Engineer's Role in Medical Device Regulation seminar and eHealth Forum have also been implemented within this Session period.

I treasure the enthusiastic support from HKIE’s headquarter and other Divisions, and particularly for the dedicated collaboration of all our Committee Members and relevant stakeholders, without their timelessly support together with professional contribution, none of the activities would ever be achieved and succeeded during this 1-year period. In the following year, the BMD Division will continue to promote high quality continue professional training to existing biomedical engineers, to attract young and talented high school graduates to join into this good prospected profession, and to provide excellent services to the hospitals, medical centers and to safe guard the general public’s benefit and interest. I step down with great confidence that the new Chairman and Committee members will lead the Division to next era of sustainable growth benefiting our biomedical engineering profession, industry and community.

Thank you all.

2. Division Activities

List of Committee Members for Session 2009 and 2010