Prof Tony Esty (Canda) wrote: "March 28th, 2018

Dear Leandro,

It is with great pleasure that the IFMBE/Clinical Engineering Division (http://cedglobal.org/) Awards Committee would like to inform you that your manuscript Health Technology Assessment of Medical Devices in Low and Middle Income Countries: study design and preliminary results, published in the Proceedings of the EMBEC & NBC 2017, was selected as a Best Manuscript for 2018. This award recognizes an individual or a group that published the best clinical engineering-related manuscript in IFMBE conferences proceedings and/or journals published in 2017. The main criteria for the award is that the publication must demonstrate innovation and research contributions by the author/s to the global clinical engineering and healthcare communities, and must help to improve patient outcomes through a combination of the following categories:

1.0 Originality and significant impact upon the clinical engineering field Original contribution to knowledge with an emphasis on the paper’s innovativeness in one or more of:

1.1 Global interest of subject matter

1.2 Patient safety

1.3 Best practices

2.0 Quality of arguments

2.1 Critical analysis of concepts, theories and findings

2.2 Consistency and coherency

2.3 Clear positioning of paper in existing international literature

3.0 Writing styleQuality of writing style in terms of:

3.1 Readability

3.2 Clarity

3.3 Organization of the article

The committee felt that your manuscript fully meets the above requirements.

Congratulations on receiving this award."

Davide Piaggio and Georgy Namm, respectively PhD and MEng Student members of the Applied Biomedical Signal Processing and Intelligent eHealth Lab at the University of Warwick, were shortlisted among the 6 finalist teams for the IFMBE Student Design Competition WC2018.

Davide and Georgy have been therefore invited to present and demonstrate their innovative design along with other 5 other teams in the final at the Student Design Competition at the IUPESM 2018 world congress that will be held in Prague, Czech Republic this June.

Prof Siew-Lok TOH, National University Singapore and Chair of the Competition Panel stated: "We have received overwhelming submissions for the competition and I am very pleased to inform you that you have been shortlisted as one of the 6 finalists. Thank you very much".

This is a great result for our students, proving their quality and the advanced research-oriented University of Warwick teaching philosophy.

In fact, design, assessment and maintained of healthcare technologies for low income settings is one of the priority research areas of the ABSPIE lab, the School of Engineering and the University of Warwick.

The 21st of October 2017, the world celebrates the Clinical Engineering with the II Global Clinical Engineering Day (#GlobalCEDay)!

For the second year in a row, the University of Warwick has contributed to this important event.

Last year, Prof Dan Clark and Dr Leandro Pecchia organized a talk here in Warwick, which was broadcasted worldwide during the 1^st #GlobalCEDay.

This year, Dr Leandro Pecchia participated with a short talk title “Bridging the gap between HTA and Clinical Engineering”.The 21st of October 2017, the world celebrates the Clinical Engineering with the II Global Clinical Engineering Day (#GlobalCEDay)!

For the second year in a row, the University of Warwick has contributed to this important event.

Last year, Prof Dan Clark and Dr Leandro Pecchia organized a talk here in Warwick, which was broadcast worldwide during the 1^st #GlobalCEDay

You can follow the event on the #GlobalCEDay website.

This year, Dr Leandro Pecchia participated with a short talk title “Bridging the gap between HTA and Clinical Engineering”, which is avaliable online.

Recent research results from our lab were showcased in the European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference 2017 (EMBEC’17), which took place from 11^th to 15^th June in Tampere, Finland.

Video: Dr Pecchia invited talk: "HTA of Medical Devices in LMICs"

Dr Pecchia represented the IFMBE HTAD in Geneve. IFMBE is an ONG in official relations with WHO and is entitled to present motions to the WHO General Assembly. Dr Pecchia is the focal point for WHO-IFMBE relations regarding HTA of Medical Devices

Dr Pecchia was responsible for selecting the papers submitted and organized the program of the HTA track. Moreover, he gave a presentation regarding his recent field analysis in Benin and was invited to present IFMBE HTA Division activities in plenary session.

HTA of Medical Devices in LMICs

BME contribution to HTA

WHO III Global forum of Medical Devices - proceedings and presentations

WHO III Global forum of Medical Devices - proceedings and presentations