Please send the following notice:
The OU-EMC Center will be sponsoring an EMC Forum on Sept.11 at
Washington DC. Given below is a brief description of the Forum.
It may be of interest to you or your colleagues. The registration fee
is $200 for the forum. Please contact me if you need additional
information.Thanks.....Ravi Ravindran
ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY CHALLENGE
Medical - Wireless Device Interactions
Forum # 3 FOCUS ON SOLUTIONS
SEPTEMBER 11, 1996
Renaissance Hotel - Washington D.C.
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
About The Conference
This conference brings representatives from industry, government, and
universities
together to face the Electromagnetic Compatibility Challenge posed by the
phenomenal
growth of the wireless phone industry. Cellular phones, personal
communication devices,
and other wireless products will proliferate as people continue to fold
these products in
their everyday lives. Recent estimates put the number of wireless
subscribers in the US
at more than 30 million, and is growing at the rate of 45% annually. As
their numbers and
mobility increase, there will be more opportunities for these devices to
come in contact
and interact with medical devices.
This is the third annual forum sponsored by the University of Oklahoma's
Center for Wireless Electromagnetic Compatibility Studies which links the
wireless industry with the medical industry to meeting the EMC Challenge.
The first two forums, held in Dallas, Texas, focused on the interaction
issues and creating tools for the EMC challenge. The theme of this forum is
to focus on solutions to the hospital EMI issues and interactions to
implanted pacemakers and hearing aids.
Hotel Reservations
A special "CTIA Meeting" rate of $145 for single/double is available for
stay at the Renaissance Hotel where the forum will be held.
For reservation, contact the hotel at : (202)-898-9000).
General Information About The Forum
Contact : Ms. Lauren Fry / Lisa Roberts at CTIA,(202)-785-0081
Registration Fee: $200
Technical Information About The Forum
Contact : Ravi Ravindran, OU-EMC Center, (405)-325-2429
FORUM AGENDA
8 AM -
9AM
Plenary Session
Introduction and Welcome
Keynote Presentation
9 AM -
10:15
AM
Wireless EMC Issues and Solution Needs
Session Chair: Donald N. Heirman, Lucent Technologies
A panel of experts from FCC, FDA, Wireless Carrier,
Phone Manufacturer and Health
Instruments Manufacturers Association will set the
stage for the forum by discussing the
EMC issues between wireless phones and medical
devices, examples of successful solutions
and need for solutions in other areas.
10:15 -
10:45
AM
BREAK
10:45 -
Noon
EMI Management in Health Care Facilities
Session Chair: Candy Castle, AT&T Wireless
Panelists will address EMI test procedures for
hospital equipment, hospital policies for
managing RF sources, and prevention of medical
device malfunction due to EMI. FDA's new
medical device user reporting regulations will also
be discussed.
Noon -
1:30 PM
LUNCH
Lunchelon Speaker: Tom Wheeler, President
Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association
1:30 -
2:45 PM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Wirelesss Phone - Pacemaker Interaction (In Vitro
Results)
Session Chair: Gerald Becker, Medtronic, Inc.
Representatives from the Center for Devices and
Radiological Health (US FDA), Medical
Devices Bureau of Health Canada, and the University
of Oklahoma EMC Center will discuss
the laboratory results of tests conducted to study
the interaction between wireless
phones and
implanted pacemakers and their significance.
Wireless Phone - Hearing Aid Interaction (In Vitro
Results)
Session Chair: Barry Kratz, Ericsson
Acoustic measurements in the laboratory to study the
effect of interference between
wireless phones and different types of hearing aids
will be discussed by
representatives from US FDA,
Starkey Labs,Oklahoma EMC Center, Ericsson and
Nortel. Effectiveness of proposed
solutions to hearing aid design modifications will
also be discussed.
2:45
-3:00 PM
BREAK
3:00 -
4:15 PM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Wireless Phone - Pacemaker Interaction (In Vivo Results)
Session Chair: George Carlo, Wireless Technology Research
Researchers who were involved in the Wireless
Technology Research's Multicenter Clinical
Study will discuss their results on the interaction
between wireless phones and
implanted pacemakers and their clinical
significance. Recommendations for managing the
risk will also be discussed.
Wireless Phone - Hearing Aid Interaction (In Vivo
Results)
Session Chair: Michael Buas, FCC
Results of the major clinical study completed
recently by the University of Oklahoma,
and other clinical tests conducted with hearing aid
users by Hearing Aid Industry
Association, Gallaudet University and the City
University of New York will be presented.
Preliminary results on correlating the subjective
annoyance ratings to acoustic
measurements will also be discussed.
4:15 -
4:30 PM
BREAK
4:30 -
5:15 PM
Summary and Future Directions
The final session will summarize the results of the
various presentations and set the
agenda for future directions to address the
electromagnetic challenges.
5:15 -
5:30 PM
Closing Remarks
WORKSHOP ON ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT IN
HOSPITALS
A half-day workshop will follow the EMC forum on Thursday, September 12,
from 8:00 a.m. to noon at the
Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Seminar Room. The
workshop will be conducted by the
University of Oklahoma EMC Center and will cover the following topics:
The Medical Environment
Radiated EMI problems in Hospitals - case studies, FDA problem reports and
laboratory test results
Management Solutions and Technology Solutions to Hospital EMI problems.
Development of a Hospital EMI Policy
The workshop will be informative to hospital administrators, biomedical
engineers, and wireless service
providers.
The workshop is free. However, due to limited space, only the first 30 EMC
Forum registrants, who sign up
for the workshop, will be selected to participate in the workshop.
Session Chairs and Invited Speakers
Gerald Becker
Medtronic, Inc.
Barry Kratz
Ericcson
Jeff Silberberg
FDA
Mike Buas
FCC
Harry Levitt
City Univ. of New York
Marlene Skopec
FDA
George Carlo
Wireless Technology
Research
Bernie Liebler
Health Industry Manufacturers
Assoc
Charles Spann
Nortel
Roger Carvillo
Mount Simai
Ray Millington
Motorola
Jim Stewart
Independence
Regional Health
Candy Castle
AT&T Wireless
Walter Patterson
Southwestern Bell Mobile
Systems
Arlene Strege
Lucent
Technologies
Hank Grant
OU - EMC Center
Shivakumar Raman
OU - EMC Center
Kok-Swang Tan
Health Canada
Judy Harkins
Gallaudet University
Ravi Ravindran
OU - EMC Center
Harry Tedar
Hearing
Industry Association
Don Heirman
Lucent Technologies
Dwight Reynolds
OU - Health Sciences Center
Tom Wheeler
Cellular
Telecommunications Industry
Association
Dan Hoolihan
TUV Products ANSI C63
Paul Ruggera
FDA
Don Witters
FDA
Ron Johnson
Ericsson
Mike Sacha
Starkey Labs
====================================================================
PLEASE NOTE EMAIL ADDRESS CHANGE BELOW.
uoknor.edu IS CHANGED TO ou.edu.
THE OLD ADDRESS IS SUPPORTED UNTIL JAN 1, 1997.
Hank Grant
Director and Southwest Bell Professor
School of Industrial Engineering
University of Oklahoma
202 W. Boyd Suite 124
Norman, OK 73019
(405)325-3725
(405)325-7555 FAX
hgr...@mailhost.ecn.ou.edu
