National Biomedical/Clinical Engineering Appreciation Week
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Biomedical and Clinical Engineering departments across Canada are celebrating the National Biomedical/Clinical Engineering Appreciation Week on May 20-26, 2018. As part of the celebrations, ACCES is once again launching a photo contest to all its registered members in Atlantic Canada.
Whether you’re planning cake in the cafeteria at breaks, contests, or lobby displays, we hope you take the time to snap a few pictures of your celebrations – with the ACCES logo visible in the photo – to submit to this year’s photo contest.
Please submit your eligible Photos to our This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by June 20th, 2018 to qualify. Please limit submissions to one (1) per department. There will be three (3) winners drawn from the submissions, who will each receive a $200 cheque from ACCES to be used for Biomedical/Clinical Engineering Week activities in May 2019.
The ACCES Executives wish you all a happy Biomedical and Clinical Engineering week, full of festivities. After all, your celebrations help our Society’s mission and objectives by promoting awareness of our shared profession throughout our hospitals and communities!
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ACCES is proud to announce its very first bursary recipient in January 2018: Nicolas Chassé, son of ACCES member Mario Chassé. Nicolas will be using the $500 bursary to attend a course in electronics engineering technology, intending to follow in his father’s footsteps and to one day become a clinical engineering technologist (pictured above: Nicolas Chassé with ACCES member and proud father Mario Chassé). Congratulations, Nicolas, and best of luck! 2017 Biomedical and Clinical Engineering Week Winners
Written by Natalie Boudreau |
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Thursday, 01 June 2017 14:46 | Written by Natalie Boudreau |
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On the evening of May 18th, during the banquet dinner for the 2017 ACCES Annual Educational Seminar and Trade Expo, a clinical engineering professional from Atlantic Canada, Mark Ryan, was recognised as the ACCES 2017 Clinical Engineering Professional of the Year for having distinguished himself through his hard work, exceptional service, technical skills, and dedication to the clinical engineering profession.
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Biomedical and Clinical Engineering departments across Atlantic Canada celebrated the Biomedical and Clinical Engineering Week last year from May 21-27, 2017. As part of the celebrations, ACCES launched its annual photo-contest to registered members.
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