{"198291":{"#nid":"198291","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Medical and Biological Engineering Group Names Bellamkonda President-Elect","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has named Ravi Bellamkonda as the organization\u2019s president-elect. He will begin his term as president in 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBellamkonda represents the fourth Georgia Tech bioengineer elected to serve as president of the prestigious organization, reflecting the Institute\u2019s leadership in biological and medical engineering. He follows in the footsteps of Georgia Tech\u2019s Robert Nerem, Don Giddens and Larry McIntire.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBellamkonda is the Carol Ann and David D. Flanagan Chair in Georgia Tech and Emory University\u2019s Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), where he directs the Neurological Biomaterials and Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory. He also serves as Georgia Tech\u2019s associate vice president for research and is a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHeadquartered in in Washington, D.C., \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aimbe.org\/\u0022\u003EAIMBE\u003C\/a\u003E provides leadership and advocacy in medical and biological engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Tech Researcher Begins Duties as President in 2014"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has named Ravi Bellamkonda as the organization\u2019s president-elect. He will begin his term as president in 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has named Ravi Bellamkonda as the organization\u2019s president-elect"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2013-03-10 23:57:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:48","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-03-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-03-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"72314":{"id":"72314","type":"image","title":"Ravi Bellamkonda","body":null,"created":"1449177454","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:17:34","changed":"1475894656","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:16"}},"media_ids":["72314"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.aimbe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/03.25-Press-Release-Ravi-Bellamkonda.pdf","title":"AIMBE Announcement"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"60841","name":"American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering"},{"id":"9492","name":"bellamkonda"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"1612","name":"BME"},{"id":"60851","name":"resesarch"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}