In Memoriam: A Celebration of Joachim Nagel’s Life

• Published in: Health and technology Vol. 8; no. 1-2; pp. 31 - 35
• Main Author: Kun, Luis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01-05-2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biological and Medical Physics; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering; Biomedicine; Biophysics; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Conferences; Councils; Engineering; Health care; Medical imaging; Medicine/Public Health; Obituary; Presidents; R & D/Technology Policy; Society; Florida; United States > US; Germany
• ISSN: 2190-7188; 2190-7196
• DOI: 10.1007/s12553-018-0231-9

About 30 professional organizations (i.e., ICMCC, IFMBE, SSIT, AIMBE, EMBS, Computer Society, etc.) and 23 different U.S. Federal Agencies / Departments attended as well as many of you” [2]. With the purposes of improving quality of life and diminishing the costs of healthcare, this meeting discussed and conveyed conclusions of the severe need to encourage, organize and institute healthcare reforms and practices to the President of the United States, of the severe need to encourage, organize and institute healthcare reforms and practices from the perspective of making prominent, a critical focus on wellness, in a very wholistic manner, and through the eyes of multi-disciplines and inter-disciplines. While these accounts serve future generations mainly, to learn and understand the scope of intellectual contributions of individuals in their given fields of expertise, the challenge is: very little is often said about the individual himself …who the person really was. [...]it never ceases to amaze me how, in such a group, individuals remember a specific event quite differently. For the same meeting, I coordinated with my colleague and friend Swamy Laxminarayan to organize a Special Session on Medical Imaging, bringing participants not only from academia, but from industry (i.e., Ralph Bernstein IBM Palo Alto Scientific Center, and Richard Robb, Mayo Clinic) and government (i.e. Mike Ackerman NLM/NIH).