On October 21^st the opening ceremony of the Global Clinical Engineering Day celebration will inaugurate a day long activity around the world. This event recognizes the significant contributions towards the promotion of better and safer patient outcomes made by clinical engineering professionals each and every hour, 365 days a year.

The Global CE Journal is delighted to be invited to join the opening ceremony where several Editorial Board members will serve as faculty. Including Y. David, Editor-in-Chief, and the Editors: professor J. Schultz, T. Judd and A. Velazquez.

The event will start this year, in Chengdu, China, the home of the beautiful Panda and of the philosopher Confucius. Following the opening ceremony, the event will rotate around the world through each continent presenting that country success story towards achieving the shared goal. The presentations will be available on-line through streaming video, power pint presentations and interviews. We invite you to learn more about the important role of Clinical engineers by visiting http://global.icehtmc.com/

Respectfully,

Yadin David

Chairman, Global CE Day program

Editor-in-Chief, Global CE Journal

Members of the Global Clinical Engineering Journal (www.GlobalCE.org) Editorial Board continue to impact health technology innovations and medical products life cycle management around the world. 

Dr. Jitendar Sharma, Advisor (Health), Government of Andhra Pradesh, and Managing Director & CEO, of AP Med Tech Zone, India, was recognized for establishing collaborative enterprise consisting of representatives from industry, government and academia at what is known as the AMTZ. This is India’s first medical device manufacturing park as well as the host for the coming 4^th World Health Organization (WHO) Global Medical Device Forum (and in this link they promote the GlobalCE Call for papers! https://amtz.in/global-clinical-engineering-journal ).

Our best wishes to Dr. Sharma, member of the Global Clinical Engineering Journal Editorial Board (https://globalce.org/index.php/GlobalCE/about/editorialTeam) for his successful leadership.

Editorial GlobalCE board member Adriana Velazquez Berumen  delivered the new WHO priorities for Global Medical Devices during the  IUPESM 2018 World Congress in Prague, 5th June, (www.iupesm2018.org)