About the Conference
The 2010 Design of Medical Devices Conference (DMD2010) will be held April 13-15, 2010. The conference seeks original papers that demonstrate new technologies and applications in the field of medical device design. Submissions from academic and industry researchers, clinicians and practitioners are encouraged. The paper should present an unbiased description of an experiment, product or business method related to medical devices. Commercialization must be avoided, for example, repeated references to branded products or trade names or excessive use of corporate logos or trademarks in illustrations.

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present in the conference poster sessions.

Along with the poster presentation invitation, the authors of approximately 10 accepted papers will be invited to present their work in condensed form in the “Three-in-Five” competition session at the conference, a way for researchers to get immediate feedback about their projects from leaders in medical technology research, engineering and commercialization.

All accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Design of Medical Devices Conference, available as a CD to conference participants. The abstracts from the accepted papers will also be published in the ASME Journal of Medical Devices.

All authors are encouraged to expand their conference papers into full-length papers for submission to the ASME Journal of Medical Devices through its normal journal article submission process.

Technical Tracks
The conference will be accepting submissions to the following technical tracks:

• TRK 1: Cardiovascular
• TRK 2: Neural
• TRK 3: Orthopedics
• TRK 4: Urologic
• TRK 5: Rehabilitation
• TRK 6: Home Medicine and Telemedicine
• TRK 7: MEMS/Nano
• TRK 8: Surgical Tools
• TRK 9: Medical Simulators
• TRK 10: Human Factors
• TRK 11: Medical Device Product Development Process
• TRK 12: Regulatory and Intellectual Property
• TRK 13: Other

For more information, view the track descriptions.

Abstract and Full-Length Paper Submission
Authors are encouraged to submit a draft paper and abstract on the DMD2010 website by December 15, 2009. Papers are 2-8 pages in length. No papers are to be submitted to the organizers; submissions will only be accepted via the conference website.

For assistance with submitting your content online, please view the author help manual.

Publication Schedule
If you are planning to submit content for consideration, please do so in accordance with the DMD2010 publication schedule.

When your paper is submitted, you will receive a confirmation and an assigned paper number. Late submissions may not be accepted.