Conference Description:

The University of Minnesota’s Medical Devices Center (part of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine), the College of Science and Engineering, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering presents the 18th Annual Design of Medical Devices Conference, April 15-18, 2019. The world's largest medical device conference will be held at Graduate Minneapolis & McNamara Alumni Center, located on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus. The DMD Conference brings together medical device designers, manufacturers, researchers and representatives from academia and the public sector.

Conference Goals
§ Provide a national forum to bring together world-class medical device designers, researchers, manufacturers, and the public sector to share perspectives and innovations in medical device design,
§ Showcase the University of Minnesota as a leader in the medical device community, and
§ Raise funds from corporate sponsorship to support medical device education at the University of Minnesota

Call for Papers
The DMD 2019 Conference seeks original papers that demonstrate new technologies and applications in the field of medical device design. Submissions from academic and industry researchers, clinicians and practitioners are encouraged. Papers should present an unbiased description of an experiment, product or business method related to medical devices. Repeated references to branded products or trade names, or excessive use of corporate logos or trademarks in illustrations is discouraged. Authors of contributed papers are likely to be asked to serve as reviewers.

A number of papers will be selected to be presented in one of the Advances in Medical Devices sessions and ten papers, describing medical device designs with a potential for commercialization, will be invited for participation in the Three-in-Five Competition.

All accepted papers will be published in the 2019 Proceedings of the Design of Medical Devices Conference in the ASME Digital Collection. DMD Conference registration and presentation of the paper in the conference poster session is required for publication of the paper.

High-quality accepted papers will be flagged in the review process and those authors will be invited to submit a longer version of their work for publication in the ASME Journal of Medical Devices. These papers will undergo an expedited review process, handled by the JMED editors.

November 1, 2018 - Draft Papers Due

Registration
Registration opens January 1, 2019! Early Bird Deadline is March 10. Complete registration information can be found at http://www.dmd.umn.edu/registration.html

Sponsorship Opportunities Available
The mission of the Design of Medical Devices conference is to facilitate collaboration between academia and industry. Exhibit Space is limited. Deadline to sponsor is March 1, 2019. To learn more, contact Jenny Holden, Conference Administrator at [email protected].

For more information, please visit www.dmd.umn.edu or contact [email protected]