Dr. George Du currently works for MicroPort Medical Group as senior vice president, in charge of surgical business.  Before joining MicroPort, Dr. Du was a director for vascular graft technology at Maquet Cardiovascular in New Jersey, USA, responsible  for product development and technology innovation.

Dr. Du obtained his B.Sc from China Textile University and Ph.D from University of Manchester, majoring in textile engineering.  Dr. Du has over 30 years’ experience in both medical device and fiber composite industries, working for MicroPort,  Maquet, Pfizer, Datascope, Drexel University, and University of Delaware in the area of Vascualr graft, covered stent, medical textile, textile composite,  and specialty textiles.  

Jenny Dankelman obtained her degree in Mathematics, with a specialisation in System and Control Engineering at the University of Groningen. Her PhD degree on the dynamics of the coronary circulation was obtained at the Man-Machine Systems Group, Delft University of Technology (DUT) in close co-operation with the department of Medical Physics of the Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam. She continued her research at the Man-Machine Systems group and in 2001 she became Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor in Minimally Invasive Technology.

11. Irene Lo

Dr. Irene Lo is an Associate Consultant in Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) of Hong Kong, sub-specializing in Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery (HBP). She is also a Honorary Associate Professor of both Hong Kong University and Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has been actively participated in teaching and clinical research. She is currently one of the examiners in the Membership Examination of the College of Surgeon of Hong Kong.

QEH is a tertiary referral center, teaching hospital and trauma center. There is an average of more than 10,000 surgical emergency admissions per year. As the society is now having an aging population; elderly surgical patients are becoming more common. In the past few years, QEH surgical unit had performed the largest number of laparotomy in elderly patients aged above 90 years old. However, to operate on elderly in this extreme spectrum of life is regarded as very high risk operation and it is of doubtful survival benefit. As a result, we had collected our data with this unique characteristic and made an objective analysis.

12.  Zhiyong Li
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Southeast University

Professor Zhi-Yong Li is the Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Southeast University. He has a BSc degree in Structural Engineering and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. Between 2004-2010, he worked as a Research Fellow and then Senior Research Fellow in University of Cambridge. He has been a Fellow of Wolfson College in University of Cambridge since 2005. His research interests include cardiovascular biomechanics, image-based computational modeling, poroelastic theory and mechanical behaviour of diseased artery.

13. Ju Mei

Professor of Surgery
Director of Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

Dr Mei is now the professor and director of division of cardiothoracic surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong university, school of medicine, Shanghai, China. Dr. Mei has over 30 years working experience of professional cardiothoracic surgery. He originated and successfully performed the first modified total cavopulmonary connection to treat complex congenital heart disease. Dr.Mei is the committee member of the international society (Asian chapter) for cardiovascular surgery and committee member of Chinese association for thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. He also serves as the standing committee member of Chinese medical doctor association for cardiovascular surgery.

14. Ming-Yih Lee 

Ph.D, Professor

Ming-Yih Lee Ph.D is currently a Fellow of IET (Formal IEE), the professor and Chairman of Graduate Institute of Medical Mechatronics in Chang Gung University.Currently, he is the Chair of the Technical Committee (TC) on Medical Mechatronics in IEEE/SMC Society. He has received Outstanding Research Award from CGU and Outstanding Academic-industry Collaboration Award from Ministry of Education (MOE). Dr. Lee has had research collaborations with faculty in Orthopedics Rehabilitation, Neuroscience, Surgery, Dentistry, Craniofacial and Sport Biomechanics. He has been the Chair of many biomedical related conferences and workshops. He is currently elected as Vice-president of Chinese Safe Patient Handling & Movement Association.

15.  Benjie Tang 

Senior Lecturer, Associate Director，University of Dundee

Dr Tang has made special achievements in education training of minimally invasive surgery and human factors engineering. He also developed and perfected the minimally invasive surgery training center at the university of Dundee, making it the Europe's largest and the world's leading minimally invasive surgical training center. Dr Tang has successively published more than 96 papers in many international top journals.

16. Uwe Spetzger

Professor Dr. med. German

Uwe Spetzger was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in June 9, 1962 and received his medical degree 1989 at the Medical Faculty at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Foreign Medical Graduate Examination in Medical Science (ECFMG) in 1990. Since 2002 he is the Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, Klinikum Karlsruhe. Prof. Spetzger was the President of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Medical Innovation and Technology SMIT2013 in Baden-Baden, Germany. Spetzger is the Congress president of the Annual Meeting of German Society Meeting of Neurosurgery (DGNC) that will be held 2015 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

17. Weimin Huang

Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University

Dr Wei Min Huang was awarded his PhD from Cambridge University, and is currently an Associate Professor (tenured) at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has 20 years of experience on shape memory materials (alloy, polymer, composite and hybrid). He has published over 100 papers in journals, such as Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Materials Today, Soft Matter, and Journal of Materials Chemistry, and has been invited to review manuscripts from over 100 international journals (including Advanced Materials, Advanced functional materials, Small and biomaterials, etc), project proposals from American Chemical Society, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, etc, and book proposals from CRC. He has published two books (Thin film shape memory alloys – fundamentals and device applications, Polyurethane shape memory polymers) and is currently on the editorial board of a couple of international journals. 

18. Wei Tech Ang

Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Wei Tech Ang is an Associate Professor at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He holds concurrent appointment as Head, Division of Engineering Mechanics and Director (Outreach) at the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004, M.Eng. and B.Eng. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in 1999 and 1997 respectively. His research focuses on robotics technologies in Biomedical applications, which include robot assisted microsurgery & cell micromanipulations, assistive & rehabilitation technology for the disabled, etc. Prof Ang is also an activist in the promotion of technology to assist and empower the disabled and aged for quality independent living. He is a founder of the International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology (i-CREATe).

19. Kai Xu

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Prof. Xu received his BE and MS degrees from Tsinghua University, China, and PhD degree with distinction from Columbia University, US. He is now an assistant professor at the University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute.
Prof. Xu has involved intensively in several projects developing the state-of-the-art surgical robots, including a tele-operative surgical robot for larygneal MIS at Johns Hopkins University and the IREP robot for SPA laparoscopy at Columbia University. After joined UM-SJTU JI, he continued his research to develop less invasive surgical robots for NOTES and SPL (Single Port Laparoscopy) applications, receiving funding from the University of Michigan, the Global Research Outreach program of SAIT (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology), and various funding agencies in China.

20. Hongliu Y

Dr. Yu Hong-liu is a professor and the director of the Institute of Rehabilitation Engineering and Technology, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology（USST）. He obtained his Ph. D degree with the study in rehabilitation engineering   and is now responsible for leading the program and discipline of Rehabilitation Engineering in institute of medical instrument and food engineering, USST.

Prof. Yu has long been engaging in teaching, researching and engineering practice in the fields of rehabilitation engineering and medical instruments. He has published over 100 papers and 3 books, and applied for more than 60 patents in rehabilitation engineering. He is currently also taking positions of many other academic organizations, including the principle expert of  Rehabilitation Device discipline (key field of science and technology)  of Shanghai, the deputy group leader of Professional Committee of Assistive Devices Group in Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, the deputy editor of the Journal of International Rehabilitation Engineering & Devices, member of director board of China Rehabilitation Devices Association, and the deputy director of Shanghai Joint Electrophysiological and Rehabilitation Technology Research Center, etc.