Overview

The University of Minnesota's Biomedical Engineering Institute, Institute of Technology, Academic Health Center, Office of the President, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering present the sixth annual Design of Medical Devices (DMD) Conference. The conference will be held April 17 - 19, 2007 at the Radisson University Hotel, 615 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414, adjacent to the University of Minnesota campus.

The conference includes two days of technical/clinical sessions and the one-day 4th Annual President's 21st Century Interdisciplinary Conference.

Conference Goals

• Promote the medical device industry
  
• Provide a forum to bring medical device designers, manufacturers, researchers, and representatives from the public sector together to share perspectives on medical devices
  
• Raise funds from corporate sponsorships to endow graduate fellowships in medical device design