Originally Published EMDM
January/February 2004
INDUSTRY NEWS
Shows and ConferencesConference Addresses Medical Devices Vigilance System
A conference titled EC Vigilance System and Postmarketing Surveillance (PMS) will be held on 22–23 January in London. Key topics to be addressed include legal aspects associated with the vigilance system, changes in ISO 13485:2003 that relate to PMS, and the impact of the directive’s revision on vigilance.
For more information, contact Management Forum Ltd., 48 Woodbridge Rd., Guildford, Surrey GU1 4RJ, UK; phone: +44 1483 570099; fax: +44 1483 536424; e-mail:
info@management-forum.co.uk; Internet:
www.management-forum.co.uk.
Conference Explores Devices from a Legal Perspective
A conference titled Safeguarding Medical Devices offers attendees practical advice on managing legal and regulatory risk across an expanded European market. Scheduled for 29 and 30 January in Brussels, the event has invited speakers to examine the interplay between law and government regulation and to debate policy issues that affect manufacturers of medical devices worldwide. For more information, contact Centaur Communications, 50 Poland St., London W1F 7AX, UK; phone: +44 20 7970 4000; Internet:
www.centaur.co.uk.
MEDTEC Convenes in Germany
On 9–11 March, the Medical Equipment Design & Technology Exhibition and Conference (MEDTEC) will be held at the Stuttgart Messe in Germany. MEDTEC 2004 will provide the opportunity to network and to evaluate hundreds of European and international suppliers to the medical device industry. Every category of products and services for the medical device industry will be represented including automation and assembly equipment, advanced engineering components, contract manufacturing, design engineering, medical electronics, healthcare packaging, in vitro diagnostic products
and materials, and injection moulding equipment. For more details and in-depth coverage of the show and the conference programme, please refer to our special preview in this issue.
For more information, readers may also contact the MEDTEC International Help Desk. Phone: +353 1 8060557; fax: +353 1 8621482; e-mail:
medtecstuttgart@perform.ie; Internet:
www.medtecshow.com.
Innsbruck Hosts Biomedical Conference
The IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering will be held on 16–18 February in Innsbruck, Austria.
The conference will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in advances in biomedical engineering.
For more information, contact IASTED Secretariat, #80, 4500 16th Ave. N.W., Calgary, AB T3B 0M6, Canada; phone: +1 403 2881195; fax: + 1 403 2476851; e-mail:
calgary@iasted.org; Internet: www.iasted.org.
Norbert
Sparrow
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