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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>I would like to extend a personal invitation to your faculty, and your students to attend the <a href="http://healthinnov.embs.org/2012conf/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>2012 IEEE Health Innovation Conference</span></a>, to be held in the Texas Medical Center on November 7-9. The conference is co-sponsored by IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) Society and The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, and is devoted to the exploration of the intersection of engineering, medicine, and health.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Emphasis will be placed on novel innovations that have a foreseeable impact on human health and disease. We invite participation by physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals, engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, industrial leaders, government agencies and policy makers.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>The conference theme is Translational Engineering in Health & Medicine: the intersection of the lab, the clinic and the community, and some of the tracks will be:</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Imaging</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Nano Medicine</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Data Mining</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Applied Metabolomics</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Global Health</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Aerospace</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Ideation and Commercialization</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Harsh Environments</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Our keynote and plenary speakers include:</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Dr. Roderic Pettigrew of the NIH;</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Dr. Matt O’Donnell, Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington;</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Dr. Albert J. Sinusas, Professor of Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology at Yale University, Director of Cardiovascular Imaging at Yale New Haven Hospital, Director of the Yale Translational Research Imaging Center; and</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Rick Valencia, Vice-President for Wireless Health & General Manager of Qualcomm Life, Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>In addition, the conference will feature:</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience an <a href="http://healthinnov.embs.org/2012conf/commercializing-med-tech/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>IDEO design workshop</span></a>,</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>An elevator pitch competition judged by venture capitalists</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>A global health forum</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>A commercialization forum </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Papers<br>We are providing Texas residents with an extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the conference. Accepted papers may also be considered for publication in The IEEE Journal on Translational Engineering in Health & Medicine (to be launched in March 2013). To take advantage of the Texas-resident extended deadline, send an email to: <a href="mailto:kmcarthur@tmhs.org"><span style='color:#1155CC'>kmcarthur@tmhs.org</span></a>.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Student Discounts</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Texas students are also eligible for a limited number of student scholarships for free or reduced registration. Interested students should send an email to Kara McArthur, <a href="mailto:kmcarthur@tmhs.org"><span style='color:#1155CC'>kmcarthur@tmhs.org</span></a>.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>I believe Texas is at the forefront of innovation in healthcare engineering, and I would really like to showcase our talent and work.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Sincerely,</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Clifford C. Dacso, MD, MBA, MPH</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Conference Chair</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Professor, Molecular & Cell Biology and Medicine<br>Baylor College of Medicine<br>Executive Director, Abramson Center for the Future of Health<br>John S. Dunn Sr. Research Chair in General Internal Medicine<br>The Methodist Hospital Research Institute<br>Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor<br>University of Houston<br>Adj. Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering<br>Rice University<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>