Mission Statement and Rules

The mission statement and the rules of the International Committe were approved at the meeting of the Committe in Kuopio (Finland) in 1992, during the VIII ICEBI

Mission Statement:

To promote research, development, use and understanding of electrical impedance measurements as a means of assessing normal and abnormal physiological states in medicine and biology

Underlying objectives:

1. To organize, at appropriate intervals the International Conferences on Electrical Bio-Impedance

2. To support and encourage the organization of local, national and regional meetings on bio-Impedance topics in collaboration with other national and international organizations

3. To encourage and assist in the organization of international collaborative projects abd in the exchange of research workers and students

Rules:

1. The Chairman of the Committe is elected at a Committe meeting by the support of two thirds (2/3) of the members present. The Chairman of the Committe will serve as the chairman of the following International Conference.

2. The vice-Chairman will be the retiring chairman

3. The duration of the Committe member terms is 9 years (three consecutive 3-year terms)

4. Inactive Committe members will be retired by two thirds (2/3) majority votes of the members present at the Committe meeeting

History of the International Committe and the International Conferences on Electrical Bio-Impedance

This very brief history notes are mainly due to the contributions of Dr. Dennis Smith and Dr. Jacques Jossinet. Any further contribution will be welcomed.

1969 - 1st ICEBI (New York)

The first ICEBI was held in the USA Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 1969. The Proceedings consist of a volume of the Annals of the New-York Academy of Sciences in July 1970. No Committee is mentionned in this book. This book can be bought from the Publication Department of the New-York Academy of Sciences (address on the book, may be obsolete): The New-York Academy of Sciences 2 East Sixty-Third Street, New-York, NY 10021. The ICEBI Proceedings form the volume 170, Article 2, pages 407-836. The Editor is Simon E. Markowich who was the Conference Chairman.

1976 - 2nd ICEBI (Lyon)

The second ICEBI was organised in Lyon in 1976 by C. Fourcade, ( dead in 1981). The Proceedings, of 363 pages, are entitled "Advances in Bioelectrical Impedance Measurements". There is no official source to get these Proceedings from, except the examplars in the libraries of the participants. There is no mention of any International Committee.

1981- 5th ICEBI (Tokyo)

The Proceedings of ICEBI in Tokyo mentions only an Organizing Committee and a Program Committee with members from various countries. The constitution of an International Committee for the Promotion of Research in Bio-Impedance was proposed during the Tokyo Conference

1983 - 6th ICEBI (Zadar)

The International Committe was definitively confirmed when published in the Proceedings of the Zadar Conference, which were printed before the Conference.

1992 - 8th ICEBI ( Kuopio)

Tapani Lahtinen was the chairman of the conference. The mission statement and committe rules are approved during the committe meeting. By following the just'approved rules Prof. Eberhard Gersing is elected new chairman of the Committe and Tapani Lahtinen vice-chairman. There are publised procedings and aslo some of the abstracts appeared in ....

1995 - 9th ICEBI (Heidelberg)

Members

The following list reflects the current members of the Committe, as decided in the last Committe meeting, in Heidelberg (Germany) in 1995. Some countries appear in the list without any member. This means that the member was retired and not yet substituted or it was decided to ask someone to be a member and has not yet accepted

Chairman

Pere J Riu
Departament d'Enginyeria Electronica
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
c/Gran Capita s/n - Edifici C4
08034 Barcelona
tel: +34-3-401.67.68   Fax: +34-3-401.67.56
email: priu@eel.upc.es

Vice-chairman

Eberhad Gersing
University Hospital Gottingen
Dept. Anaesthesiolog Research
Robert Koch St., 40
D37075 Gottingen, Germany
tel: +49-551-39.8829    Fax:+49-551-41.351
email: egersin@gwdg.de

Members

Argentina	Max E. Valentinuzzi	Universidad Nacional de Tucuman
Austria	Gunter Lanner	Landeskrankenhaus Klagenfurt
Bulgaria	Lilia Ivanova	Second Hospital Sofia
Croatia	Petar Baturic	Medicinski Center Zadar
Estonia	Mart Min	Tecnical University Tallin
Finland	Tapani Lahtinen	Kuopio University Hospital
France	Jacques Jossinet	INSERM U-281. Lyon
Germany	Eberhard Gersing	University Hospital Gottingen
Hong-Kong
Northern Ireland	Eric McAdams	North Ireland Bio-Engineering Center
Italy	Francesco Gugliemi	University of Bari
Japan	Katsuyuki Sakamoto	Kitasato University. Kanagawa
Netherlands	R Heethaar	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Norway	Sverre Grimnes	Rikshospitalet Oslo
Poland	Tadeus Palko	Politechnica Warzwska
Russia	Yuri Moskalenko	Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physics. St. Petersburg
Spain	Pere J Riu	Universitat Politecnica Catalunya. Barcelona
Sweden	Stig Ollmar	Center for Oral Biology. Huddinge
U.K.	Denis Smith	Western General Hospital. Edinburgh
U.S.A.

Activities

The course Noninvasive Diagnostics with Electrical Impedance is included in the programme of the Summer University of Southern Stockholm (SUSS). The course is organized by NEBIC in collaboration with two departments of the Karolinska Institute for SUSS. The scientific committee consists of the three NEBIC coordinators (Prof Grimnes - Oslo, Dr Lahtinen - Kuopio and Dr. Ollmar - Huddinge) plus two professors of the Karolinska Institute: Hakan Elmqvist, Biomedical Engineering, and Lars Hammarström, Center for Oral Biology. The target group is professionals, postgraduate students or PhD-students in the fields of biomedical engineering, biophysics or physiology. The course is intended to cover the fundamental electrical properties of living tissues, electrode systems, instrumentation, measurement techniques, tissue modelling and a number of applications including cells and cell cultures, body composition and nutrition, the cardiovascular system, brain, lungs, stomach and intestines, skin and mucous membranes, tumours, effects of chemotherapy and radiation, electrical impedance tomography, as well as future directions. The following lecturers are already confirmed: Esko Alanen - Finland, Brian Brown - England, Ivar Giaever - USA, Krassimir Katzarski - Sweden, Tapani Lahtinen - Finland, Orjan Martinsen - Norway, Eric McAdams - Northern Ireland, Mart Min - Estonia, Vasyl Molebny - Ukraine, Stig Ollmar - Sweden, Javier Rosell - Spain, Herman Schwan - USA, Rod Smallwood - England, Steven Smye - England, E. Gersing - Germany. This course will run June 23-27, 1997.

The World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering will take place in Nice, France, September 14-19, 1997. For information, contact Societe des Electriciens et des Electroniciens, 48 rue de la Procession, FR-75724 Paris Cedex 15, Phone: +33 1 44496000, Fax: +33 1 44496044, email: nice97@univ-paris12.fr. Deadline for submission of papers: February 1997. Dr Jacques Jossinet is in charge of Electrical Bio-Impedance sessions.

The 2nd International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism will take place in Melbourne, Australia, February 15-19, 1998. For information, see . Deadline for submission of papers: September 25, 1997.