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Jos Willems Young Investigators Competition
ISCE, in order to encourage young investigators to enter research careers in electrocardiology, holds a young investigators competition, named in memory and honor of former ISCE member Jos Willems, at each conference.Several young investigators are selected on the basis of submitted abstracts to present their work in a dedicated session. A jury selects the most meritorious, and awards its author a plaque as a mark of honor. ISCE rewards these finalists by providing them travel, hotel accommodation, and conference registration, and a one-year membership in the Society. All other entrants in the competition are entitled to present their work as posters and to a one-year membership in the Society.
ISCE '08 JWYI finalists and winner
The upper group picture is for the JWYI finalists and winner from ISCE '08.
The people are, from left to right:
Barbara Drew, ISCE president
EunYoung Lee, UCSF, JWYI poster presenter
Mads Peter Andersen, Aalborg University, JWYI finalist & winner
Ińaki Romero, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, JWYI finalist
Tobias Hannes, University of Köln, JWYI finalist
Johan Bennett, Royal Victoria Hospital, JWYI finalist
Peter Scott, Royal Victoria Hospital, JWYI poster presenter
Konrad Brockmeier, ISCE JWYI chair
Morrison Hodges, ISCE '08 conference chair
See Abstract Submission page for further information about submitting abstracts in the Jos Willems Young Investigators competition for the upcoming conference.
Biography of Jos Willems
Professor Jos Willems was born August 6, 1939 and died July 29, 1994, a few days before his 55th birthday. Professor Willems had a distinguished academic career. He obtained his MD degree at the Catholic University of Leuven in I963 and an MSc degree in medical sciences 3 years later. He specialized in internal medicine and cardiology in Leuven and Leiden from I963 to 1968. In October 1973, he was awarded the degree of PhD for a thesis on the normal apex cardiogram. In 1969, he moved to Washington, DC temporarily as the WHO Research Fellow in cardiovascular data processing with Dr. Hubert Pipberger. From that time until his death, the field of computerized electrocardiography remained the major interest in his academic life.Jos was a member of many societies, both national and international. In 1989, he was President of IMIA, the International Medical Informatics Association. As a cardiologist, Jos was a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. He was also head of the Department of Medical Informatics at the University Hospital of Leuven from October 1971 onward. He was appointed Professor in 1979 and became a full Professor in the Faculty of Medicine in July 1988. He was a member of the editorial board of the European Heart Journal and the International Journal of Biomedical Computing, among others. These two interests merged in 1987 when he was Chairman of the Computers in Cardiology Conference, which was held in Leuven that year.
Jos will best be remembered for his major contribution to the field by directing the large European project entitled Common Standards for Quantitative Electrocardiography—or CSE for short—completed in December 1990 and was published in the NewEngland Journal of Medicine in December 1991. The CSE database is now compulsive reading for the Food and Drug Administration.
As a mark of respect for the contributions that Jos has made to the field of computerized electrocardiology, the Board of ISCE at its meeting in April 1995, decided that henceforth, the first prize in the Young Investigators Competition at its annual meeting would be renamed The Jos Willems Young Investigators Award. This is a fitting tribute to one who gave so much time and effort to the field. It will ensure that the contributions of Professor Jos Willems to the field of computerized electrocardiology will not be forgotten.