
CED Awards
The CED Awards are an important way to honor those who have made exceptional contributions to the Clinical Engineering profession.
The Clinical Engineering Division of the IFMBE awards professionals under three categories:
IFMBE
CED Award
This award recognizes an individual who has made an outstanding regional or international contribution to the field of Clinical Engineering. This award searches for individuals who have demonstrated a significant impact on the Clinical Engineering field, have contributed significantly to the development of the CE profession, and whose activities on a national or international organization for CE have been meritorious.
Clinical Engineering Outstanding Teamwork Award
This award recognizes an individual or group that has fostered and facilitated cooperation between clinical technology managers and other members of the healthcare field, achieving outstanding impact in clinical engineering. This award looks for individuals or teams whose work has benefitted global clinical engineering, the healthcare community, and patients through a combination of professional collaboration, high impact, and leading change.
Best Clinical Engineering Article and Conference Paper Award
This award recognizes an individual or group of authors that stood out for writing the best clinical engineering article published in IFMBE journals and proceedings during the previous year. This award specifically seeks to encourage the development of clinical engineering as an academic discipline within biomedical engineering. This award looks for authors whose publications demonstrate scientific merit, relevance to the field and breadth of impact.
Chair, CED Awards Committee
CED Awards 2021

IFMBE CED Individual Award
Alexandre Ferreli Souza, Brazil
Almir Badnjevic, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Clinical Engineering Outstanding Teamwork Award
Ruth Thomsen, London Clinical Engineering Network, NHS, UK
Jingyi Feng, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University Dept of CE & IT
Special Mention: Almir Badnjevic, Verlab, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Clinical Engineering Article & Conference Paper Awards
Journal Article: Bench to Bedside: The Technology Adoption Pathway in Healthcare, Dan Clark et al, UK
Conference Paper: Smart Aging: Are We Succeeding, Jasmina Baraković Husić et al, Bosnia & Herzegovina
CED Awards 2020

Best CE Conference Paper Award Infusion pump training: from course to evaluation.
A. de Suassuna, E. Vieira Mendes, C.E. Leal de Menezes, B. Stransky. Presented at XXVI Brazilian Congress on Biomédical Engineering.

Best CE Article Award An IoT architecture for preventive maintenance of medical devices in healthcare organizations.
J. Maktoubian & K. Ansari. Health and Technology.

Special Mention Article Award Analysis of IFMBE CED 2017 worldwide Clinical Engineering survey.
L. Nascimento, S. Calil, T. Judd, Y. David. Global Clinical Engineering Journal.

Clinical Engineering Outstanding Teamwork Award Global Clinical Engineers Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Special Mention, Hacking Coronavirus Team, E. Sloane, K. Stavrianou, I. Peña, E. Cajigas, T. Judd, Y. David, R. Rivas, and L. Fernández
CED Awards 2019

CED Best Manuscript
Award winners 2019
Z. K. Lin, K. Zheng, Y. M. Zhen, C. X. Zheng, Y. Y. Wu.

CED Best Manuscript
Award winners 2019
D. Emmerling, A. Dahinten, R. A. Malkin

CED Teamwork
winner 2019
Ernesto Iadanza - Biolab UniFi

CED Teamwork
winner 2019
Jin Dong - China Medical Devices

CED Teamwork winner 2019
Tobey J. Clark - WHO Collaboration Center for Health Technology Management

CED Special Appreciation
Award
Dr. Kallirroi Stravrianou
CED Awards 2018

CED Award
winner 2018
Dr. James Wear

CED Teamwork
winner 2018
Shanghai MDMQCC Team

CED Teamwork
winner 2018
Sociedad Mexicana de Ingeniería Biomédica (SOMIB)

CED Best Manuscript Award winners 2018
Health Technology Assessment of Medical Devices in Low and Middle Income Countries - L. Pecchia

CED Best Manuscript Award winners 2018
Testing of infusion pumps in healthcare institutions in Bosnia and Hercegovina - L. Gurbeta, B. Alic, Z. Dzemic, A. Badnjevic
CED Awards 2017

CED Teamwork
winner 2017
Clinical Engineering team of the Irmanda de Santa Casa de Misericordia de Porto Alegre Hospital. - Brazil

CED Teamwork
winner 2017
Shauna Mullally and Anna Worm

CED Manuscript
winner 2017
Dr. Daniel Clark

CED Manuscript
winner 2017
Dr. Victor Sontea
Dr. Silvia Morgoci
Dr. Gheorghe Turcan
Dr. Cornel Pislaru