AIMBE Attributes

Customer Benefits

Efforts your Dollar Supports

Collaborations

Engineers, Scientists, and Clinicians; Universities; Industry; Professional Societies and Coalitions

Innovative technologies for health, water, security, food safety, and biofuels

· New web-site, with more intuitive features

· Federal Updates

· AIMBE Digest

· Issue briefing phone calls

· Regular Capitol Hill Briefings informing Congress on issues of importance to MBE

· Information gathering from memberships in partner organizations

· Staff and Leadership attendance at key meetings in Washington

Affordability

Reduced cost for unit of care; small business opportunity and efficiency;

Improved quality of self-diagnosis, homecare, and systems analysis

· Speakers Network to the FDA, CDRH Staff College

· Capitol Hill briefings to educate members and their staffs

· Communications to the public

· Participation in key meetings in Washington with opinion leaders, think tanks, trade groups, and advocacy organizations

· Industry Council Activities to develop “best practices” for tech transfer centers and small bus.

· Coalition and partner building to educate the public and tell them about MBE

· Representation at Federal Agencies (NIH, FDA, NSF, EPA etc)

Research & Development

Robust and sustained innovation in the commercialization of products, processes and services;

Innovations leading to small business creation;

Advocacy to support all phases of translational research enterprise

· Annual Event

· Programming at society and partner meetings

· Women in Medical and Biological Engineering Committee

· Committee for Under-Represented Minorities

· Advocacy Committee

· Public policy roundtables

· Outreach to key federal agencies (NIH, NSF, FDA, EPA, etc)

Enhancing Life

Examples of how engineering can improve the quality of life;

Transformational initiatives

· AIMBE Challenges: A new effort to highlight the ability of MBE to solve problems and champion more funding to realize its promise to health and the economy.

· Hall of Fame: MBE’s great achievements used to educate the public about innovation.

· Database of MBE innovations by AIMBE’s Academic Council to demonstrate the contributions of MBE to society

· AIMBE’s Awards Program: recognize MBE’s  achievements

· Federal Symposium and regular visits to Capitol Hill

· Presentations to other organizations

· Policy Roundtables

· Conference Call issue forums

Societal Impact

Reduced medical errors;

Improved regulatory science;

Healthier food and water

· Relationships with Federal Agencies

· Public education pieces

· Congressional Briefings

· Hall of Fame

· Knowledge Portfolio on AIMBE’s web-site