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	4-3-2008 Online registration is now closed - You can register onsite at the conference. See the logisitics link for details on where the conference is being held

Agenda

The following is a tentative schedule for the conference, scheduled for April 4, 2008.

Time	Event
8:00 - 8:30 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:40 a.m.	Opening Remarks: Hamid Arastoopour, Dean of Engineering, IIT
8:40 - 9:25 a.m.	Keynote Speaker: David L Amrani, Ph.D., FAHA Senior Director Cellular Therapies - Head, R&D Baxter
9:25 - 10:00 a.m.	"What is a Biomedical Engineer?" Robert A. Linsenmeier, Professor Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Neurobiology & Physiology, and Ophthalmology Northwestern University
10:00 - 10:15 a.m.	Break
10:15 - 11:00 a.m.	Featured Speaker: Raphael C. Lee, MD, ScD, FACS Professor of Surgery, Medicine, Organismal Biology and Anatomy (Biomechanics) Committee on Molecular Medicine Director, Chicago Electrical Trauma Program University of Chicago Founder and Chairman, Board of Directors of Avocet Polymer Technologies, Inc., Renacyte BioMolecular Technologies, Inc., Electrokiinetic Signal Research and Maroon Biotech, Inc.
11:00 - 12:15 p.m.	Concurrent Panels: Hot Topics in Biomedical Engineering: Neural Engineering Marketing your BME degree to industry BME Careers
12:15- 1:45 p.m.	Lunch Student Poster Session
1:45 - 3:00 p.m.	Concurrent Panels: Hot Topics in Biomedical Engineering: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Entrepreneurship BME Careers
3:00 - 3:15 p.m.	Break
3:15 - 4:30 p.m.	Concurrent Panels: Hot Topics in Biomedical Engineering: Biomedical Imaging Marketing your BME degree to industry Bringing Research to Clinical Practice
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.	Recruiting Session and Reception