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We are always looking for items of technical or topical interest to our members. Please email articles to Honorary Secretary for consideration or mail to Hon Secretary SMBE, PO Box 19, Woodville, South Australia, 5011.

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2011

2010

• Congratulations Tony Carlisle, winner of the AusBiotech 2009 Student Excellence award
• Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Honours Project Award 2009 Madeleine Yates
• Report on 2010 SMBE NSW Biomedical Training seminar by Richard Denton
• Upcoming conference: EPSM-ABEC 2010 Melbourne
• AS3003 & AS3551 Standards workshops by Stuart Clifton
• 2009 AGM and Presidents Reports

2009

• Gold watch dinner
• Krix Loudspeakers site visit
• Thank you Darren Kohlhagen
• Xmas dinner sponsors
• Winner of outstanding honours project 2008: Tony Carlisle
• Winner of SMBE Encouragment Award 2008: Pas Viscone
• Report on NSW Techs Conference in Dubbo 2008 by Pas Viscone
• Updates from TGA
• AGM 2008 report including Presidents report
• EPSM-ABEC 2008 Report by Anne-Louise Smith (Full report 59kb)

2008

2007

• Xmas dinner at theThe British Hotel
• SMBE Outstanding Honours Project awarded to Emily O’Brien for her final year project: An Instrument to Measure Articular Cartilage Stiffness.
• AGM 2007 report by Robin Woolford
• Presidents Report for 2007 by Robin Woolford
• EPSM-abec 2007, Fremantle: report on interesting presentations, after-hours activities and award winners by Anne-Louise Smith
• FLUKE Biomedical VT PLUS HF performance verification of Bunnell
  Life-Pulse HFJV (High Frequency Jet Ventilator)
• Fluke Defibrillator test system, Domo-Technica

• New SMBE (SA) Biomedical Scholarship details
• EPSM-abec 2007, Fremantle - Call for Papers
• April BBQ at Belair National Park
• SMBE Encouragement Award 2006: David Sanders Report A brief look at the 2007 (NSW) Country Technicians Conference
• GE Healthcare: Essentials of Healthcare IT workshop

2006

• Xmas dinner at the Historian
• Encouragement Award
• ABEC 2006 Guest Speaker: Tim Ritter, ECRI. Preventive Maintenance-Why?
• EPSM-abec 2006, Noosa: Conference report
• Presidents report 2006 by Anne-Louise Smith
• SMBE sa Committee contact details

Jul06
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• Conference cheque from EPSM 2005
• Future of international affiliation for SMBE - discussion
• State-of-the-Art Endoscopic Suite - site visit report
• Draeger/SMBE Encouragement Award 2005:
  Tom Allen Report on 2006 SMBE (NSW) Country Technicians Conference (Pdf 74kb)
• SMBE Outstanding Honours Project Award 2005:
  Mel Ryan and Scott Bond: A Knee Examination Simulator (Pdf 977kb)
• Xmas 2005 Sponsors
• SMBE SA councillor contact details

2005

• Councillor contact details 2005
• Site visit: CSIRO Manufacturing & Infrastructure Technology (CMIT)
• AGM: Guest speaker Craig Stewart featuring the Toyota Prius
• Election of Office Bearers 2005-06

2004

• Xmas dinner
• SMBE Outstanding Honours Project Award 2004: Tim Nelson for EyeSim An Artificial Simulator for Patient Training (Pdf 254kb)
• Draeger/SMBE Award Nomination form for 2004
• Fluke ESA 601

• AGM report
• Kevin O'Brien retires from council
• 2004 Presidents Report by Anne-Louise Smith
• Mark Denton, ETSA Utilities talking about the Starfish Hill wind farm
• Presentation of Drager/SMBE award to Rhys Winn

• Christmas dinner sponsor list for 2003
• Tues 25 May - Site tour of Rehabilitation Engineering at Regency Park (new name NovitaTech)
• Book 27-28 May - TGA Seminar: Medical Devices Regulatory Requirements
• Tues 22 June - Site Visit: Entech Electronic Manufacturing
• 14-18 Nov - EPSM 2004 Geelong - Register now
• The Case for National Unification of the SMBEs in Australia - Adrian Richards
• Oct 2005 - Advance notice that EPSM 2005 will incorporate the Australian Biomedical Engineering Conference to be held in Adelaide
• Rhys Winn report: NSW Country Biomedical Engineering Training Seminar & Conference in Batemans Bay Mar 2004 (Pdf 148kb)

2003

• Wed 10 Dec - Xmas dinner
• AGM report
• SMBE Outstanding Honours Project Award 2003: Chantelle Saegenschnitter and Tania Walker for Orthopaedic Surgical Simulator (Pdf 349kb)
• Application note (Pdf 709kb) from Victor Kysilo, Domo Technica: QED6 and biphasic waveforms

• Tues 4 Mar - Principles of low flow anesthesia
• Sun 16 Mar - Family day BBQ Belair
• Drager/SMBE Award: Michelle Catlin - Haemodialysis vs. Peritoneal Dialysis (Pdf 137kb)
• 2002 Sponsors List

2002

Jul02
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• Tues 16 July - Visit to Motorola Australia Software Centre
• Tues 27 Aug - AGM, Privacy personal information, IEAust email list
• Council nomination form

• Tues 19 Mar - Visit to Royal Flying Doctor Service Aviation Operations
• Report on Bruce Morrisons talk about Biomedical programmes in the Southern Pacific region
  

2001

• Wed 12 Dec - Christmas Dinner
• Tues 27 Nov - Two steps forward, one step back: The Role of the Design Engineer in Orthopaedics.
  Speaker: Mr Dan Barker
• Report on AGM held on 28 Aug
• Article on Professional Development (Pdf 34KB) by Adrian Richards
• Report on EPSM 2001 - Perth
  

• Tues 24 July - Protons in the Treatment of Cancer by Assoc Prof Tim Van Doorn
• Career Development Opportunity in Malaysia
• Report on meeting - Visit of Mr. Mike Flood, TGA
• Book Tues 28 August - AGM
• Nomination forms - Council members & Drager/SMBE Award

• 26 June - PET comes to South Australia Presenter: Dr Barry Chatterton
• James Higham's paper on an Automated Perfusion Pump Part 2 (Pdf 183kb)
• MOU between SMBE and the IEAust CBmE
  

• 9 May - TGA Changes to Medical Device Legislation, Mr Mike Flood
• Drager/SMBE Award Article by James Higham Automated Perfusion Pump Part 1 (Pdf 353kb)

• Tues 27 Mar - Craniofacial Imaging and Models by Dr. David J. Netherway
• Sun 1 Apr - Family BBQ, picnic and wine tasting
• Working at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the USA Tony Carlisle Feb 2001(Pdf 425kb)
• Drager/SMBE Biomedical Engineering Encouragement Award 2000 goes to James Higham
• Report on meeting: 6 Feb Digital Television presented by Bob McCullough
  

• Tues 6 Feb - What will Digital TV offer South Australians? Presenter Bob McCullough, Technical Services Manager, ABC
• Part 1 Biomedical Engineering in the USA (Pdf 160KB) by Tony Carlisle Nov 2000
• Xmas dinner (Pdf 285KB) photos & sponsors list for 2000
• Dr Joe Dyro of New York IEAust funded eminent speaker at EPSM 2000, Newcastle - Summary of visit by Adrian Richards (Pdf 30KB)
• Course: Humans & Machines - Medical Technology at Work. Developed by the SMBE (NSW) in association with Healthquest
  

2000

• Wed 6 Dec - Christmas Dinner
• Tues 21 Nov - Doctors, Devices and Disasters by Dr Joe Dyro, President, Biomedical Resource Group, Setauket, NY
• Council Business
• Report from Dr Sue McCoy's meeting: The Cosmetic use of lasers - Medicine, Myth or Moneymaker??
• OPAL Overseas Pharmaceutical Aid for Life, Pharmaceutical Collection & Humanitarian Aid Program

• Wed 16 Aug - AGM, The Planetarium, Mawson lakes

• 6 June - Part 2 Experiences in PNG by Ian Hill and John Stevens (Pdf 733kb)
• CANNIBAL SHOCKER - Newspaper article
• Travelling Fellowship to Houston, USA by John Kirby, North Western Adelaide Health Service
• Telecon 99 West, Anaheim
• International Survey of Clinical Engineering Department

• Tues 7 Mar - Monitoring Volatile Anaethetic agents Dr John Russell, Dept of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Royal Adelaide Hospital
• Part 1 Twinning Project "Biomedical Engineering" in PNG by Ian Hill (Pdf 639kb)

1999

• Wed 1 Dec - Christmas Dinner
• Changes to council members
• Tues 9 Nov - Out of the Ivory Tower: examining the clay feet of science by Dr Wendy Rogers, Departments of General Practice and Philosophy, Flinders University

• Hospital Twinning Project by Ian Hill
• 23-24 Oct - The National Panel on Clinical Engineering 2nd Annual Training Workshop by CBmE
  

• Advance notice: IEAust Biomedical Engineering Development Workshop
• Report on meeting: Dr Colin Carati, School of Medicine, Flinders University of SA
• Report on meeting: EDS MARKETSPACES TOUR, Peter Mathews
• Article: Breast Endocrine Clinical Management
  

• Program for SMBE (NSW) Country Technicians Seminar
• Report on meeting - Manufacturing Intelligence presented by David Powers, School of Informatics, Flinders University of South Australia
• Digital Television Transmissions Start
• SMBE Merchandise

1998

• Tues 1 Dec - Xmas Dinner
• New members
• Tues 24Nov - John Hughes, EPSM98 guest speaker

• AGM Guest speaker: Kevin Wilkins from Ngapartji Multimedia Centre
• Report on meeting: Visit to the Aircraft Maintenance Facility of ANSETT AUustralia, Mr Matthew Eddy, Engineering Maintenance Manager for SA and NT
• Book: Tues 10 Nov 1998 AS3003 Seminar
• Book: Nov 15th - 19th 1998 Conference, Tasmania

• Possible meeting: Visit to Adelaide Airport
• Tues 18 Aug: AGM
• Article: Insulation Testing by Mark Littlejohn of Electrolab Medical
• Book: 23 June - J&J Monitoring by Dr John Russel

• Cooper’s Brewery visit
• AS3003 Update
• Electrosurgery accessories - the need for high voltage testing
• Tues 21April - Medico Legal Issues and Risk Management

• Sun 15 Mar - Family Day BBQ/picnic, Tusmore reserve
• Sponsors 1997
• Wed 16 Feb - Regency Park Centre for Young Disabled
• Tues 28 April - Visit to Cooper’s Brewery
  

1997

• AFMBE Update (Pdf 66KB)
• Report on AS3003 workshop (Pdf 104KB)
• Medical Device Certification (Pdf 151KB)
• Report: 1 Jun - The Family Day, Kays Winery McLaren Vale

• 8 Sep - AGM Guest speaker - Tony Carlisle
• PERMIT ‘ 97
• Year 2000 date issue AKA the millennium bug
• AS3003 0.01 OHM Earthing Requirement

1996

• Report on EPSM `96, Canberra
• Danger in the Hospital (Popular Mechanics)
• Useful internet sites

• Improving Medical Device Safety: Lessons from the past by Joel Nobel, President ECRI
• AS3551 Seminar
• Report on Forensic meeting
• High-tech health - We can , but should we?
• Benchwarming is for benchwarmers
• Testing of electrosurgical accessories

• Report from Fiji , David Lhurs
• Obituary to David Dewhurst
• Rwanda: Hope and Healing for a Nation in Post-Traumatic Shock

• 1995 Conference Presentations
  Tim Staker :Benchmarking of Biomedical Engineering
  Adrian Richards :Certification of Biomedical Engineering Technicians
  Robert Wiseman :Re-engineering of Biomedical Engineering
• Australian Biomedical Engineering WWW
• Scientific Meeting Program
• Physician heal thyself

1995

• Toxigenic E. coli and Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS): L essons from the Garibaldi outbreak by Dr James Paton, Head, Molecular Microbiology Unit, Women's and Children's Hospital
• Xmas Dinner
• Certification of Biomedical Engineering Technicians
• EPSMH'96 Engineering and Physical Sciences in Sciences in Medicine and Health to be in Canberra

• UPDATE ON NEW PULMONARY FUNCTION MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT: A review of new designs and equipment applications by A/Prof Allan Crockett, Dept Pulmonary Medicince, FMC
• AGM Report
• Annual Student Paper Night