News & Views
Vol. 3, No 1, December 2004
Published by IFESS
Edited by Dejan B Popović
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Letter from the President of IFESS
Dear All,
In our efforts within the IFESS Board to envision the future
built on established and emerging strengths within the IFESS Society, the
importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration has become clearer than ever. We
are still a small and young society compared with many others within
engineering and health sciences. However, our size and the mixture of
disciplines with concerted interests in promoting
We are beginning to see the fruits of our commitment to work
collaboratively. This year’s IFESS conference in the
Many other activities have happened during the past year as nicely outlined by the editor Dejan Popovic in News & Views. I would like to thank Dejan for producing News & Views. Without him this would not have been established.
I take this opportunity to wish you a happy and prosperous
New Year with hopefully many new challenges in the new year to come. Also I would
like to thank you for your cooperation in the past three years. As President
for IFESS it has been a pleasure working with the board and many other IFESS
members. Our new president, Paul Meadows, is known to most members of IFESS for
his very impressive efforts in building up our young society and making it an
important promoter of
Thomas Sinkjær
From the editor
This
News & Views were prepared just before the changes in the IFESS
Office, that is, December 2004. This edition summarizes some of the activities
where IFESS as the society, and members of the Society individually played
important roles. Three years ago when I was delegated to edit the IFESS News
& Views I was confident that
the Society would grow and provide an adequate and attractive arena for this
interesting and important research. I am glad to say that the officers of the
Society headed with Thomas Sinkjær, with enormous support from the
organizers of the Annual meetings in
The success can be measured in many ways, but the one that everyone could appreciate is the collaboration with the Society for Neuromodulation and IEEE that resulted with two official publications of the IFESS: Neuromodulation (http://www.blackwellscience.com/journals/neuro/) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Neurorehabilitation Engineering (http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transactions/tre.htm).
Since the
“International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society”
was founded in 1995, it was constantly growing. At the moment IFESS has 850 registered members from 45 countries.
150 of them were active during the year 2003. The two major IFESS related events in the year 2004 were the following:
The 9th IFESS
Conference in Bournemouth International Centre (BIC) (http://www.ifessnet2004.tk/).,
The 8th Vienna
International Workshop on Functional Electrical Stimulation http://www.fesworkshop.org/ in
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The most important measure of success of the IFESS is the
rising number of young investigators that come from many more places around the
world compared with the original Society that was started in 1995. The young
investigators are taking over the load and responsibility; this can be seen
through many interesting scientific events, courses, workshops, and other forms
of communication that were developed. The Society was still the key player in
dissemination of the impressive results and integration of modern technologies,
new findings in neuroscience, use of information technology tools, and over all
intensive transfer to the clinical practic
The News
& Views were ambitiously planned to be a regular short publication that
would be disseminated several times during a year to the Society members;
however, many other means of communication made it somewhat obsolet
The team that lead the Society to successes during the year 2004 was the following:
Thomas Sinkjaer - President (Denmark),
Glen Davis (Australia), Tomaž Karčnik (Slovenia), Robert Riener (Switzerland), Mohamad Sawan (Canada), Ian Swain (United Kingdom), Ronald Triolo (U.S.A.), Graham Creasy (U.S.A.), Maurizio Ferrarin (Italy), and Miloš Popović (Canada) were the members of the Board of Directors.
I end this editorial note in the IFESS News & Views with my favorite quote that was taken from the research paper of Sir Rudolph Magnus [Lancet, 1926]: “I am glad to say: There is work enough left for you to do
.”
Dejan Popović