Bikramjit BasuDr. Bikramjit Basu is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He has been pursuing research at the confluence of Materials Science, Biological Science and Medicine. His research group has effectively applied the principles and tools of these disciplines to develop next generation implants and bioengineering solutions to address unmet clinical needs for musculoskeletal, dental, and neurosurgical applications; thereby impacting human healthcare. A Chartered Engineer of the UK, he is an elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (2021), International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (2020), Indian Academy of Sciences (2020), American Ceramic Society (2019), International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (2017), National Academy of Medical Sciences (2017), Indian National Academy of Engineering (2015), Society for Biomaterials & Artificial Organs (2014) and National Academy of Sciences, India (2013). He is a recipient of India¡¯s most prestigious Science and Technology award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2013) from the Prime Minister of India; and the globally competent awards, like Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation (2022), and International Richard Brook Award from the European Ceramic Society (2022). He is the current President (2021-24) of the Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs, India, which has more than 900 members across India, Europe and USA; and is the current Chair of the Bioceramics Divison of the American Ceramic Society.
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Lim Soo KunLim Soo Kun is a Professor of Medicine & Consultant Nephrologist and Head of Renal Division at the University Malaya Medical Center. Professor Lim began his professional career after graduating in 1999. He became board-certified nephrologist in 2008 and has been a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and American Society of Nephrology. Professor Lim¡¯s main interests are in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and pre-dialysis CKD education, and kidney transplantation. He contributes actively in numerous professional commitments, including serving as secretary and council member of the Malaysian Society of Nephrology, committee member of the Malaysian Registry of Renal Biopsy, expert panel member of the National Transplant Registry and member of the National Credentialing Committee, Specialty Subcommittee for Nephrology. Professor Lim has published widely in his field of expertise and has been an invited speaker at numerous international and national congresses.
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Akira Shiose
Prof Akira Shiose is a Professor at the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University. His research interests include valve disease, aortic disease, cardiac failure (artificial heart, heart and lung transplantation), pulmonary artery thrombosis, adult congenital heart disease, coronary artery disease and arrhythmia. He is also the current Treasurer of APSAO.
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Surapong ChatpunDr Surapong Chatpun is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand. He received his PhD degree in Bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), United States, in 2010. He is a principal investigator of Cardiovascular Engineering Research Laboratory (CERLab). His research focuses on applying the engineering approaches such as continuum mechanics, numerical methods e.g. FEM, fluid mechanics e.g. CFD, image processing and computer aided design combined with life sciences knowledge and available technologies to bring us to understand function and mechanisms of the circulatory system in both normal and pathological conditions. He has developed tapioca-based plasma expanders using animal models. He also designs and invents medical devices not only for a cardiovascular system but also for other clinical applications such as rehabilitation.
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Koichi Toda
Prof Koichi Toda, MD., PhD joined research program regarding artificial heart in National Cardiovascular Center (NCVC) in 1993 and received Ph.D. Degree certified by OUGM in 1996. He then worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Columbia University and passed USMLE (1996-1998). Upon completion, he completed Thoracic Cardiovascular residency in Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans (1998-2000) and clinical fellowship in Cardiovascular Surgery in Brown University, Rhode Island (2000-2001). After returning to Japan, he worked as an attending cardiovascular surgeon in OUGM affiliated hospitals and NCVC (2001-2012) and promoted to Associate Professor and Clinical Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at OUGM (2012 - Present). His surgical specialty includes mechanical circulatory support, heart transplant, heart and lung transplant, minimally invasive surgery, and regenerative therapy and he has more than 250 publications related to cardiovascular surgery. He also works as Board member of International Federation for Artificial Organs (IFAO) (2016-2021), ISMCS (International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support) (2019-Present), Japanese Society of Artificial Organs (JSAO) (2013 - 2019), and Editorial Board member of Surgery Today and Artificial Organs. He has also hosted the 57th Annual Meeting of the JSAO in 2019.
Toru MasuzawaProf Toru Masuzawa received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Tokyo Denki University, in 1982, 1984 and 1991, respectively. In 1987, he was a Research Assistant with the Department of Precision Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo. From 1990 to 1997, he was a Research Associate with the Department of Artificial Organs, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan. He is currently a Professor of the domain of mechanical systems engineering. He is also the Dean of the College of Engineering and Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Hitachi, Japan. His current research focuses on medical mechatronics such as magnetically suspended blood pumps and artificial hearts. Prof Masuzawa is the President of the International Federation for Artificial Organs and the board member of the International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support, and the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs.
Goro Matsumiya
Prof Goro Matsumiya is the Director of the Global Health Care Center and a Professor at the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Chiba University Hospital, with specialty in cardiovascular surgery, organ transplantation and artificial organs. He is also the current President of the Asia-Pacific Society for Artificial Organs (APSAO).
Tomohiro NishinakaProf Tomohiro Nishinaka is the Director of the Department of Artificial Organs, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, which focuses on the practical application of medical devices such as ECMO systems and ventricular assist devices for the treatment of severe heart failure and respiratory failure. He is also the current Secretary-General of APSAO.
Sivathasan CumaraswamyDr Sivathasan Cumaraswamy is presently the Consultant of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the Heart, Lung & Vascular Centre of Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, Singapore. Dr Sivathasan also holds several portfolios at the National Heart Centre, Singapore, namely, Program Director of Mechanical Heart Devices and Co-Director of Heart/Lung Transplantation programmes. He is instrumental in establishing several major programmes in Singapore, including the Mechanical Heart Assist and the heart-lung transplant programme at the National Heart Centre. He has also assisted many centres in Asia and Asia Pacific in initiating their Left Ventricular Assist Device programmes. He was also a past President of the International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support.
Geoff TansleyGeoff Tansley is Professor Emeritus at the School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Australia. Geoff¡¯s specialties include fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics and device design, in particular ventricular assist devices, blood pumps and blood bearings. Geoff has broad experience and has consulted widely in the medical devices and manufacturing industries.
K R Balakrishnan
Dr. K R Balakrishnan is the Director of the Institute of Heart and Lung Transplant & Mechanical Circulatory Support, MGM Healthcare, Chennai, India. He is one of India¡¯s leading cardiothoracic surgeons and heart-lung transplant specialists, with over 30 years of experience, and having a record of completing over 503 heart transplants. Dr Balakrishnan is credited with India¡¯s First LVAD and HVAD pump implant as destination therapy. He is instrumental in starting India¡¯s First Comprehensive Centre for Heart Failure Management at Fortis Malar Hospital, Chennai. He is also actively engaged with various institutions to develop Pulsatile and continuous flow LVADs (Left Ventricular Assist Device) and molecular biology of ventricular hypertrophy. He is currently working on the engineering and development of a low-cost mechanical cardiac support device.
Polin HsuDr Polin Hsu is the Founder and CEO of magAssist. Since the establishment of magAssist, the company has applied over hundreds of patents, covering the field of extracorporeal ventricular assist devices, percutaneous ventricular assist devices, ECMo systems and organ care systems. Dr Hsu received her PhD (Electrical Engineering) in Cambridge University, United Kingdom, in 2010. Later, she pursued her postdoctoral research fellowship in Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (2010-2013). She is a board member of the International Society of Mechanical Circulatory Support. Previously, she served as a professor and doctoral advisor at Soochow University, China.
Stephen PayneProfessor Stephen Payne is a Professor at the Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University. He was University Lecturer (2006-14), Associate Professor (2015-18) and Professor (2018-21) at the University of Oxford (where he is currently a Visiting Professor). He is currently also Chair of the Cerebrovascular Research Network (CARNet) and the Editor-in-Chief of Medical Engineering and Physics. He has published >100 journal papers and 3 books and supervised 24 PhD students to successful completion. His research interests lie in computational modelling of cerebral blood flow and metabolism.
Jaesoon ChoiDr. Jaesoon Choi is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Ulsan College of Medicine and Asan Medical Center in Seoul, Korea. He earned his research training from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Cleveland Clinic in the United States from 1999 to 2000. Between 2003 and 2006, Dr. Choi served as a Staff Researcher at the National Cancer Center Research Institute in Korea. Later, from 2007 to 2012, he worked as a Research Professor at the College of Medicine, Korea University. He joined Asan Medical Center in 2012.
In recognition of his contribution to the field of biomedical engineering, Dr. Choi was awarded the 10 Best Mechanical Technologies of Korea award in 2020. He has authored and co-authored 56 SCIE papers. In addition, he holds 85 patents in surgery and intervention assist robots, medical simulation and visualization, and mechatronics applications in biomedicine. He is also a council member for the Asia Pacific Society of Artificial Organs.
Andrew Stephens
Dr Andrew Stephens is a Research Fellow at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Australia. He is currently investigating the improvement of mechanical cardio-respiratory and smart emergency medical devices through sensing, monitoring, control, and AI. He is the deputy director of
CREATElab (Cardio-Respiratory Engineering And TEchnology laboratory) situated at the Victorian Heart Hospital. He is also a council member for the Asia Pacific Society of Artificial Organs.
Takashi NishimuraP
rof Takashi Nishimura is a Professor at the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Ehime University, with specialty in artificial hearts and heart transplantation.
Suhaini KadimanDato¡¯ Dr. Suhaini Kadiman is the Head & Senior Consultant Anesthesiologist, Dept of Anesthesia & Intensive Care at the National Heart Institute of Malaysia. Dato¡¯ Suhaini is also currently holding a position of Director of Clinical Research at the National Heart Institute, Malaysia. Dato¡¯ is the member of various associations, notably the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia, the Asian Society of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, the American Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists and the Malaysia Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. Last year, Dato¡¯ has been awarded with the Award ¡®Tokoh Perdana Maulidur Rasul 2021¡¯, given by Sultan Nazrin Shah.
Tuan Harirulnizam Tuan KamauzamanDr Tuan Harirulnizam Tuan Kamauzaman is an Associate Professor and Senior Consultant in the Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University Sains Malaysia. His main interests are in pre-hospital care, underwater medicine and disaster medicine. He is serving as the board of director of Astra Medical Technologies Sdn Bhd, a start-up company working on medical innovations.
Sivakumar Krishnasamy
Dr Sivakumar Krishnasamy is currently an Associate Professor and a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon in University Malaya Medical Centre. He is a graduate from University Malaya and in 2006 he got his MRCS and was awarded the gold medal as best candidate in Asia. He also got the Al Hadi Gold Medal as best overall candidate for Masters in General Surgery in 2010. He went on to pursue his subspeciality in Cardiothoracic Surgery where he got his FRCS(Edin) CTh in 2016 and also was awarded the Gold medal and overall best performer in the esteemed European Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery in 2016. His clinical experience covers adult cardiac surgery, aortic surgery (open and endovascular) as well as minimally invasive and complex thoracic surgery. He was also the first recipient in the world for the Francis Fontan Fellowship by the European board in 2019. He is also the Lead author for the National Postgraduate Medical Curriculum for Cardiothoracic Surgey.
Syafiqah SaidinDr. Syafiqah Saidin is a senior lecturer at the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering & Health Sciences, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She is currently the Director of IJN-UTM Cardiovascular Engineering Centre. Her research interests are focused on biomaterials (membrane, implant coating, scaffold and hydrogel) with the specification on bioactive materials (hydroxyapatite, chitosan, etc), biomolecules (polydopamine, collagen, elastin, Factor VII, endothelial growth factor, fibroblast growth factor, etc) and antibacterial materials (silver, chlorhexidine, lauric acid, etc). The development and fabrication of biomaterials are intended for bone, cardiovascular and skin applications, mainly to accelerate cell proliferation, expedite wound healing and to suppress inflammation phase.
Yeoh Fei YeeDr Yeoh Fei Yee is an Associate Professor at the School of Materials & Mineral Resources Engineering, University Sains Malaysia, Penang. He received his PhD (Functional Materials) from the Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan, in 2007. His research interests are focused on nanoporous and biomaterials, such as nanoporous silica, hydroxyapatite, zeolite & activated carbon in biomedical, environmental, and clean energy applications.
Nadiah SulaimanDr Nadiah Sulaiman is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. She received her PhD from University of Bristol, U.K. (2018) in Translational Health Science. Her research focuses on the potential use of decellularised human vein for coronary arterial grafting and the use of ex vivo model (bioreactor) to improve graft patency, biomaterials, cell-scaffold interaction, regulation of cell behaviours and signalling pathways, stem cells, secretomics, culture process design and cell delivery as well as bioreactor.
