Best-practice Medical Design for 2020 (14.6.2007)

Thursday, June 14, 2007
The Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, Technion City , Haifa

This one-day symposium of invited lectures, featuring both leading international and local researchers, engineers and designers, is the only one of its kind, gathering together disciplines of industrial design, bio-engineering, medicine, health care industry and hi-tech companies that generally attend separate conferences.

RATIONALE

· Industrial design is an essential integrated component in any product development, accompanying it from early stages of research, planning, developing, through production and marketing.

· Industrial design and medical design in particular are gaining a great deal of interest lately, especially with healthcare moving from hospitals to home care, e-health and community services, resulting in rapid growth in the market for personal home medical devices.

ORGENIZING COMMITTEE:

Dr. Noemi Bitterman, Head, Industrial Design, Technion.
Prof. Medardo Chiaponni, Head, Medical Design, IUAV, Venice, Italy
Prof. Shlomo Maital, Academic Director, TIM-Tel Aviv.

View lecture abstracts notebook here


9:30 OPENING
	Prof. Nadav Liron, The S. Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and
	Prof. Yerach Doytsher, Dean, Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning, Technion
	Zvia Dori- Deputy Director General for Finance, Ministry of Industry Trade & Labor
	Prof. Peretz Lavie, Vice president for Resource Development and External Relations, Technion
9:50- 10: 20 KEYNOTE LECTURE
	Prof. Manuel Trachtenberg, Head, National Economic Council, Prime Minister's Office

10:20-10:40	COFFEE BREAK
10:40- 12:00 TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES IN MEDICAL DESIGN
	Medical design, users and innovation of products and services Prof. Medardo Chiaponni, Head, Medical Design, IUAV, Venice, Italy - presentation
	Ambient experience design for healthcare environment Jos Stuyfzand, Creative Director Ambient Experience Design at Philips Design, Eindhoven, The Netherlands - presentation
	Discrimination by design. Prof. Ron Nabbaro, Industrial Design, Faculty of Architecture & Town planning, Technion - presentation
12:00- 13:20 PERSPECTIVES ON BEST PRACTICE IN DESIGN EDUCATION
	MODERATOR: PROF. SHLOMO MAITAL Ido Bruno, Industrial Design, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem - presentation David de Vries, Patent Attorney, Reinhold Cohn Group - presentation Alex Padwa, Industrial Design, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design - presentation Kenny Segal, Industrial Design, Hadassah College Jerusalem - presentation Ofer Zick, Industrial Design, Holon Institute of Technology - presentation

13:20 – 14:20	LUNCH
14:20- 15: 50 DESIGN AND HUMAN FACTORS IN HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
	Innovations and trends in health facilities design Prof. George Mann- AIA, Health Facilities Design, College Station, TX - presentation
	Simple forms that matter: The redesign of a radiotherapy chart Prof. Daniel Gopher - Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - presentation
	Designing for sustainable innovation Prof. Michael Radnor, Kellogg School of management, Northwestern Univ.

15:50-16:10	COFFEE BREAK
16:10- 17:20 SOCIAL DESIGN; MEDICAL DESIGN FOR ELDERLY & DISABLED
	The Challenge of Social Design Prof. Victor Margolin, University of Illinois at Chicago - presentation
	Designing patient- oriented E-health systems. Dr Noemi Bitterman, Industrial Design, Faculty of Architecture & Town planning, Technion - presentation
	Designing the Future of Medical Care Intel Corporation, Digital Health Group.

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