EMBS Roster
2021 EMBS ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
(Term expires December 31 of year indicated)
Executive Committee – Voting Members
MetinAkay
EMBS President ’22
University of Houston
makay@uh.edu
James Weiland
V.P Conferences ’22
University of Michigan
weiland@med.umich.edu
Amir Amini
V.P. Publications ’21
University of Louisville
amir.amini@louisville.edu
NitishThakor
V.P. Elect Publications ’21
National University of Singapore
thakorjhu@gmail.com
*non-voting, ex-officio
Shankar Subramaniam
Past-President ’21
University of California, San Diego
shankar@ucsd.edu
Bruce Wheeler
V.P. Finances ’21
University of California, San Diego
VPFinance@embs.org
Bruce Hecht
V.P. Elect Finance ’21
VG2PLAY
bruce.hecht@ieee.org
*non-voting, ex-officio
Laura J. Wolf*
Society Executive Director
IEEE EMBS
emb-exec@ieee.org
*non-voting, ex-officio
Carolyn McGregorAM
V.P. Member and Students ’22
Ontario Tech University
Carolyn.mcgregor@ontariotechu.ca
Colin J.H Brenan
V.P. Technical Activities ’21
1CELLBIO INC.
cbrenan2@gmail.com
Ellis Meng
V.P. Elect Technical Activities ’21
University of Southern California
ellis.meng@usc.edu
*non-voting, ex-officio
Administrative Committee – Voting Members
North America
Cyhthia Chestek ‘21
University of Michigan
cchestek@umich.edu
Latin America
Roberto Lavarello ’22
University of Concepcion, Chile
estebanpino@udec.cl
Europe
Arrate Muñoz Barrutia ‘21
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
mamunozb@ing.uc3m.es
Asia Pacific
Rosa Chan ‘23
City University of Hong Kong
rosachan@cityu.edu
Middle East & Africa
Mohamed Khalil ‘22
Lebanese University
mohamad.khalil@ul.edu.lb
Technical Representatives
Beena Ahmed ‘23
University of New South Wales beena.ahmed@unsw.edu.au
Erika Ross ‘21
Abbott
erika.ross@abbott.com
Thomas Penzel ‘21
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
thomas.penzel@charite.de
Carlotta Guiducci ‘22
Ecole Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne carlotta.guiducci@epfl.ch
Julia Schnabel ‘22
King’s College
julia.schnabel@kcl.ac.uk
Practitioner Representatives
Qi Duan ‘21
National Institute of Health
qi.duan@nih.gov
Luis Kun’22
National Defense University
Hcii@aol.com
Ed H. Livingston ‘22
JAMA
edward.livingston@jamanetwork.org
Peter L.Elkin ‘22
University of Buffalo
elkinp@buffalo.edu
Nancey Trevanian Tsai ‘22
Medical University of South Carolina
nttsai@hotmail.com
Student Representative
JingzhiAn ‘22
Harvard-MIT Division of
Health Science and Technology
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
jingzhi.an@gmail.com
Young Professional Representative
Marianna Laviola ’22
University of Nottingham
marianna.laviola@nottingham.ac.uk
Administrative Committee – Non-Voting Members (Editors)
IEEE PULSE
Cynthia Weber
clweberb@mtu.edu
Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
Yuan Ting Zhang ‘22
ytzhang@ee.cuhk.edu.hk
Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Xiaochuan Pan ‘21
xpan@uchicago.edu
EMBS Book Series
Bruce Hecht
bruce.hecht@ieee.org
Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering
Dan Ferris ‘21
editortnsre@gmail.com
Journal of Translational
Engineering in Health and Medicine
Pamela Bhatti ‘21
pamela.bhatti@ece.gatech.edu
Open Journal of Engineering in
Medicine and Biology
Paolo Bonato‘22
PBONATO@mgh.harvard.edu
EMBC Conference Chairs
EMBC’21 Guadalajara- Emilio Sacristan
EMBC’22Glasgow- Christopher James