The Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA), The International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI), and The Microelectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council (MEPTEC) have announced the program for the 2016 Medical Electronics Symposium being held September 14th through the 15th at Marylhurst University near Portland, Oregon.

Two tracks make up the technical program for this symposium. Track 1 sessions address Designs, Components and Assembly for High Density Medical Electronics Solutions with presentations from Indium Corp., KYZEN Corp., and Binghamton University, among others. Track 2 will cover Next Generation Microelectronics for Changing Healthcare Markets with presentations from Cactus Semiconductor, Rudolph Technologies, Portland State University, and Intel. An iNEMI Panel Discussion will close out the two-day event. 

Bob Rogers, Chief Data Scientist for Big Data Solutions at Intel Corporation, will deliver the keynote presentation titled “The President’s Precision Medicine Initative: The Opportunities and Challenges of Analytics on Integrated Data from One Million Patients.” Metin Akay, Ph.D, University of Houston, will also deliver a keynote presentation, that one titled “Advanced Technologies for Human Brain Initatives.”

More information about the 2016 Medical Electronics Symposium can be found at http://www.smta.org/medical/.