Medical Electronics Symposium Keynote Speakers Announced

Minneapolis, MN - The SMTA and MEPTEC are proud to announce the keynote speakers for their co-organized 2010 Medical Electronics Symposium, Successful Strategies for the Medical Electronics Sector: Steady Growth Keeps the Momentum Moving Forward. The program is scheduled for September 22-23, 2010 at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Ben Costello, Proteus Biomedical, will present the keynote address on Improving Health Care with Intelligent Medicine during the first day of the symposium. The second day will feature a keynote presentation on Hermetic, Radio-Transparent Micropackaging for Implantable Neural Prosthetics by Charles Byers, Alfred Mann Foundation for Scientific Research.

Ben Costello, Vice President of Product Engineering for Proteus Biomedical, will present "Improving Health Care with Intelligent Medicine." The presentation will introduce Proteus Biomedical's technology which enables proven drugs and devices to incorporate active digital sensors that connect with cell phones, enabling widely adopted therapies to be personalized by a patient, their family and physician.

Charles Byers, Alfred Mann Foundation for Scientific Research, will present "Hermetic, Radio-Transparent Micropackaging for Implantable Neural Prosthetics." He will discuss packaging innovations that helped miniaturize circuitry and made the creation of hermetic cases for modern prosthetic devices possible.

For more information, contact Melissa Serres (SMTA) at 952-920-7682 (melissa@smta.org) or Bette Cooper (MEPTEC) at 650-714-1570 (bcooper@meptec.org).

Visit https://meptec.org/meptec2010medica.html to view the complete program line-up and for registration.

The SMTA membership is an international network of professionals who build skills, share practical experience and develop solutions in electronic assembly technologies, including microsystems, emerging technologies, and related business operations.