Welcome to ISMICT 2018 

ISMICT 2018 Sydney, Australia

26-28 March 2018

Venue: UTS Building 10, 235 Jones St, Ultimo NSW 2007

The 12th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, ISMICT 2018, aims to establish a forum to present new research and development results, exchange ideas, discuss practices, and share experiences among Technology and Medicine sides, including healthcare, wellness, clinical therapy, and surgery, as well as ICT, mechanical, and biomedical engineering. Moreover, activities of standard, regulation and business for medical ICT devices, systems and services will be promoted by national and international government and industry. The Symposium is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

ISMICT 2018 will be held in Sydney, Australia, from 26 to 28 March 2018. ISMICT 2018 will also offer an exciting social program.  The conference will also include an Expert Panel on the following topic:

Panel: “Should you care about your health data? How to provide privacy-aware solutions for data collection?”
Chairs: A/Prof. Valerie Gay and Dr Zenon Chaczko, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Panelists:
Prof. Branko Celler (Bio), University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr. Federico Girosi (Bio), Western Sydney University, Australia
Prof. Prasuna Reddy (Bio), Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Associate Professor Gyorgy Hutvagner (Bio), Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

The conference will also include a workshop on the following topic:

Medical Device Regulatory Science (MDRS) Workshop 2018

Organizer: Prof. Masayuki Fujise, Yokohama National University, Japan

Keynotes:

Keynote 1: Dr. Seigo Hara, MD, CEO of MICIN, Inc. Japan

Keynote 2: Prof. Yi Qian, PhD., Professor of Biomechanics, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia 

Panel: Medical Network Therapy & Big Data Registry

Moderator: Prof. Ryuji Kohno, PhD., Director, Medical ICT Center, Yokohama National University, Japan

Panelists:

• Ian Oppermann, NSW Data Analytics Centre, Australia
• Dr. Yi Qian, Professor of Biomechanics, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia
• Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of California San Diego, USA
• Seigo Hara, MD, CEO of MICIN, Inc. Japan
• Jari Iinatti, Dr.Sc. (Tech.), Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland
• Chika Sugimoto, PhD., Medical ICT Center, Yokohama National University, Japan

To view the Program at glance and the full program, navigate to Technical Program ISMICT2018 section. Registration desk opening times for the conference are as follows:

• Monday, 26 March: 7:30 am – 5 pm
• Tuesday, 27 March: 8 am – 5 pm
• Wednesday, 28 March: 8 am – 12:30 pm