MISSION STATEMENT (approved during the VII ICEBI, Kuopio 1992)

To promote research, development, use and understanding of electrical impedance measurements as a means of assessing normal and abnormal physiological states in medicine and biology

 

UNDERLYING OBJECTIVES

To support and encourage the organization of local, national and regional meetings on bio-impedance topics in collaboration with other national and international organizations  To encourage and assist in the organization of international collaborative projects and in the exchange of research workers and students

 

RULES (excrept)

The chairman of the committee is elected at a committee meeting by the support of two thirds (2/3) of the members present. The chairman of the committee will serve as the chairman of the following international conference  The vice chairman will be the retiring chairman  The duration of the committee member terms is 9 years (three consecutive 3-year terms)  Inactive committee members will be retired by two thirds (2/3) majority votes of the members present at the committee meeting

 

HISTORY	This brief history of the ICPRBI and the International Conference on Electrical Bio-Impedance was recopilated with the main contributions of Dr. Dennis Smith and Dr. Jacques Jossinet
1969	The first ICEBI was held in the USA Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 1969. The Proceedings consist of a volume of the Annals of the New-York Academy of Sciences in July 1970. No Committee is mentionned in this book. This book can be bought from the Publication Department of the New-York Academy of Sciences (address on the book, may be obsolete): The New-York Academy of Sciences 2 East Sixty-Third Street, New-York, NY 10021. The ICEBI Proceedings form the volume 170, Article 2, pages 407-836. The Editor is Simon E. Markowich who was the Conference Chairman.
1976	The second ICEBI was organised in Lyon in 1976 by C. Fourcade, ( dead in 1981). The Proceedings, of 363 pages, are entitled "Advances in Bioelectrical Impedance Measurements". There is no official source to get these Proceedings from, except the issues in the libraries of the participants. There is no mention of any International Committee
1981	The Proceedings of 5th ICEBI in Tokyo mentions only an Organizing Committee and a Program Committee with members from various countries. The constitution of an International Committee for the Promotion of Research in Bio-Impedance was proposed during the Tokyo Conference
1983	The International Committe was definitively confirmed when published in the Proceedings of the Zadar Conference, which were printed before the Conference
1987	The conference was held in Klagenfurt (Austria), chaired by prof. Gunter Lanner
1992	Tapani Lahtinen was the chairman of the conference (VIII ICEBI). The mission statement and committe rules are approved during the committe meeting. By following the just'approved rules Prof. Eberhard Gersing is elected new chairman of the Committe and Tapani Lahtinen vice-chairman. There are publised procedings.
1995	The IX ICEBI was held in Heidelberg, in conjuntion with the last meeting of the 2nd. European Concerted Action in Impedance Tomography (CAIT). There are published proceedings and a selection of the communications of the CAIT were published in a special issue of Physiological Measurement, in 1996
1998	Pere J Riu was the Chairman of the the X ICEBI, held in Barcelona in April 1998. There are published proceedings and a selection of the papers were published in a volume of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, in 1999
2001	The XI ICEBI was held in Oslo. The Chairman of the Conference was Prof. Sverre Grimnes. There are published proceedings. The First H.P.Schwan Award was presented to Prof. Ronald Pethig. The Committee decided to look forward the constitution of a formal Society and an Executive Committee was elected to pursue this task.
2004	The XII ICEBI and EIT Workshop joint meeting will be held in Gdansk, organized by Prof. Antoni Nowakowski.