For Immediate Release
Paul Kelley
Named to New Technology Council
Group to Meet for First Time at June Conference in
Boston
Paul Kelley, CBET, Assistant
Director of Engineering at Washington Hospital in Fremont, CA, has been
selected to serve on a new Technology Management Council, which has been formed
to advance the interests of technology managers at hospitals and other health
care facilities around the country.
“The Council is very important and
should serve as a resource for the ‘rank and file’ biomed. We should give them
tools to become certified and to advance their careers,” said Kelley, who has
worked in the field for more than 25 years.
Kelley is one of 20 technology managers
named to the Council, which was created by the Association for the Advancement
of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) to help increase the visibility and
recognition of technology managers, promote educational efforts, and expand
networking opportunities. The Council will meet for the first time at AAMI’s
Annual Conference & Expo in Boston on Saturday, June 5.
Technology managers—who include biomedical
equipment technicians, clinical engineers, and other health care professionals—play
a vital role in health care in helping to purchase, assess, properly operate,
and maintain medical devices and technology.
Kelley, who has an Associate’s
degree in Electronics Technology and Biomedical Electronics, worked for 15
years at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, where he worked his way
up from a technician to manager. Six years ago, he started the department at
Washington Hospital. Kelley is an active member of the California Medical
Instrumentation Association (CMIA), and has held several leadership positions
in the group.
Kelley said he hopes the new
Technology Management Council will help provide more resources to technicians.
“We should also provide training and networking resources for BMETs and not
just the managers,” he said. “We need to help develop these folks into the
managers of tomorrow.”
The Council is an outgrowth of efforts started in 2003
by a special AAMI Task Force, which examined issues facing the technology
management field. The Council is
expected to help advance the field, much like the Task Force, whose members
helped publish AAMI’s special information technology publication, IT Horizons; and helped develop AAMI’s
Employment Survey published in the Nov/Dec 2003 issue of AAMI’s journal, Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology.
In
addition to the Council meeting at the AAMI Annual Conference, a public
forum will be held on Monday, June 7, at 5 p.m. to allow conference attendees
to discuss the needs of the technology management community. For more
information, visit www.aami.org/resources/BMET/news.html;
and for a complete list of Council members, see the attached list.
Formed in 1967, AAMI is a unique
alliance of more than 6,000 members united by the common goal of increasing the
understanding and beneficial use of medical instrumentation. AAMI represents a
diverse cross section in the medical device community, including researchers,
manufacturers, and users of medical technology.
(A
Complete List of Council members follows)
The Technology Management Council
·
Ray Laxton,
Director of Clinical Engineering Clarian Health Partners/ARAMARK Clinical
Technology Services, Indiana (Chair)
·
Carol Davis-Smith, CCE, Capital Lifecycle
Solutions, Premier, Inc., Arizona (Vice-Chair)
·
Donald Trombatore, Director of New Business Development,
Sound Imaging, Indiana
Council Members
·
Vickie Snyder,
BMET, Manager, Biomedical Engineering-Fairview Southdale Hospital, Minnesota