Awards for Projects in Clinical Engineering
 In the mid-1960's, the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, was interested in what could be done for elderly
ladies. Mr. Rippel, a philanthropist, had heard of electrocardiographic computerization at the U.S.
Public Health Service Medical Systems Development Laboratory. When he asked how it was being done,
the answer given to him by Dr. Cesar A. Caceres, then head of the Medical Systems Development Laboratory
was through Clinical Engineering! He explained that by utilizing engineering in the clinical world of
medicine the various disciplines could work hand in hand to improve health care in the reality of the
practicing medical world. The Fannie E. Rippel Foundation was the first to fund several projects to
document Clinical Engineering.
Through daily contact of these disciplines we can become aware that the solution to health care is not
just in the hands of scientists doing research or academicians or physicians with hands-on medicine, it
must also include Clinical Engineering with a goal-oriented, problem-solving approach combining multiple
talents as the basis to a focus on resolving health care problems.
The Institute for Technology in Health Care has funded the Association for the Advancement of Medical
Instrumentation (AAMI) Foundation for Technology in Health Care Clinical appreciation Award.
2005 Clinical Engineering Awards
The first Institute for Technology in Health Care Award was given to the Association for
the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation in 2005.
2006 Clinical Engineering Awards
The Award to the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation was renewed for fifteen years.
In 2006 a scholarship in perpetuity was funded at the University of Toronto
for the Clinical Engineering Graduate Student program.
Additionally, a Clinical Engineering Thesis Award was established for fifteen years and were also funded. |
