Regional Healthcare Technologies - Overcoming the Tyranny of Distance
Prizes

Engineers Australia Young Biomedical Engineers Award

A maximum of AUD $3,000 funding to attend and present a paper on their work at a relevant international conference.

This award is to be presented to a student whose studies are leading to an engineering qualification in a field related to biomedical engineering or a biomedical engineer who is either in the process of satisfying entrance to, or is a member of the College of Biomedical Engineers. The work being considered for the award must be the person’s own work. The recipient must be 35 years of age or younger at the time of the conference. Only a paper being presented orally will be considered for this Award (ie. no posters).
Judging Criteria:

The abstracts will be considered by a panel of referees nominated by the College of Biomedical Engineers for inclusion in a session of the conference specifically for presentations by the short-listed applicants.
Assessment of the abstract and oral presentation will be based on consideration of the following areas:

· Technical content
· Delivery and presentation style
· Originality
· Relevance to biomedical engineering and value to the wider community
· Discussion and ability to answer questions

The Award will be presented at the Conference Dinner.

Varian Prize

AUD $1,000 and a plaque.

Award Criteria:

· Best oral presentation related to radiotherapy
· Strong technical content with emphasis on original work as opposed to reviews
· Quality of delivery – easily understood and good audio-visual presentation
· A member of ACPSEM (ie invited speakers are not eligible)

The judging panel will be nominated by the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine.

The Award will be presented at the Closing Ceremony.

CMS Poster Prize

AUD $500 awarded for the best poster presented at the conference.

All poster presentations accepted and displayed will be elligible.

Note: For a poster to be displayed the author, or a colleague who has been associated with the work, must register and be present at the poster viewing session.

The Award will be presented at the Conference Dinner.

Student Poster Prize

AUD $200 plus book(s) to the value of AUD $300 to be chosen from the IOP publishing 2005 catalogue, awarded for the best poster by a student presented at the conference.

All student poster presentations which are accepted will be eligible.

Note: To be eligible the first author of the poster must be a full-time student, must register and be present at the poster viewing session.

The Award will be presented at the Conference Dinner.

Pentax - Conference Door Prize

Pentax Digital Camera (two prizes donated by CR Kennedy). All four-day registered delegates and all presenting authors will go into seperate draws at the Closing Ceremony.