{"365071":{"#nid":"365071","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Four More Fellows for AIMBE","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFour members of the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s bioengineering community have recently been elected as new fellows of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/aimbe.org\/\u0022\u003EAmerican Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHanjoong Jo, Garrett Stanley, Johnna Temenoff, and May Wang \u2013 who were elected through a multi-step process with extensive peer review, followed by a vote of current fellows \u2013 will be inducted at the AIMBE Annual Event, March 15th, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll four of the new AIMBE fellows serve on the faculty of both the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith their induction, Georgia Tech will have 27 AIMBE fellows (BME Chair Ravi Bellamkonda is currently president of the organization\u2019s board), quite a feat when you consider that AIMBE represents the top two percent of medical and biological engineers in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We have exceptional faculty who are being rightly recognized by communities beyond their research disciplines,\u0022 Bellamkonda says. \u0022It is a pleasure to have Johnna, Garrett, May Wang and Hanjoong on our faculty and each of them richly deserve this honor. \u0026nbsp;I am particularly pleased because their election comes at a time I am involved with the leadership of AIMBE.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBellamkonda expects a re-energized\u0026nbsp; AIMBE to play a critical role in policy advocacy in the coming years, adding, \u0022I am sure that the Georgia Tech-Emory AIMBE scholars will not only contribute but lead some of these efforts to enhance the innovation climate at the national level for biomedical engineering and technology.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/aimbe.org\/\u0022\u003EAmerican Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Jo, Stanley, Temenoff, Wang to be inducted in event at National Academy of Sciences"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJo, Stanley, Temenoff, Wang to be inducted in event at National Academy of Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jo, Stanley, Temenoff, Wang to be inducted in event at National Academy of Sciences"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2015-01-16 13:10:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:50","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"365061":{"id":"365061","type":"image","title":"AIMBE fellows 2015","body":null,"created":"1449245805","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:16:45","changed":"1475895100","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:40","alt":"AIMBE fellows 2015","file":{"fid":"202102","name":"aimbe_group.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/aimbe_group_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/aimbe_group_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":735233,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/aimbe_group_0.jpg?itok=5ha15B21"}}},"media_ids":["365061"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003EBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}