DDM enables product, process and business model innovations in P&O. Direct Digital Manufacturing or “scan to print process” will be described on some patient-specific prostheses, orthoses and insoles.
We are using DDM technology (2D/3D scanning, computational modelling, 3D printing) in the clinical practise. We will describe our experience with DDM in the field of P&O.

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He is been working 7 years as a product designer, in the area of orthotics and prosthetics, at company Invent Medical, where he leads a team of progressive industrial designers.
Main focus of the R/D department is design of custom medical prostheses, orthoses and sports protecting devices, manufactured using 3D printing and digital design.

Even though, BCPs do not accurately mimic the inorganic part of the bone, which also contains trace amounts that play essential therapeutic roles on bone metabolism. Bioactive glasses (BGs) elicit special responses when in contact with biological fluids in a way that depends on the composition. Therefore, fine tuning the chemical composition of these materials is the way to engineer bone grafts with enhanced performance in vitro and in vivo.
Bone grafts can be engineered in a variety of forms (thin films, membranes, granular bone fillers, injectable formulations, porous scaffolds, etc.). This presentation will provide an overview about the ongoing research activities at the University of Aveiro in the specific area of synthetic bone grafts.Special emphasis will be given to the compositions of starting materials and to the easiness of processing (scaffold fabrication by additive manufacturing and sintering). An alternative approach is taking advantages of natural marine-derived porous structures to engineer multifunctional devices.

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Prof.Dr. José Maria Ferreira is Associate Professor with habilitation at the Department of Materials and Ceramics Engineering at University of Aveiro, CICECO. The main research interests include the synthesis and processing of advanced materials, with special emphasis on synthetic bone repair materials (bone cements, porous scaffolds, granular bone filing materials based on CaP, glass-ceramics, structural bioceramics and composites). Throughout his scientific career, he has supervised 38 Master and 24 PhD students, registered 16 patents, published 6 book Chapters and more than 530 articles in SCI journals, including 2 Feature Articles. He is recipient of several awards, including the ‘Stimulus to Excellence – 2005 award’ from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technoly (FCT); the ‘Chinese Ceramic Society – 2005’ award; and is the unique Portuguese who was awarded with the Membership of the World Academy of Ceramics (www.waceramics.org) since July 2013; and withthe title of Fellow of the European Ceramic Society (ECerS) in recognition of the achievements and contributions to the field of Ceramics, June 24th, 2015, Toledo, Spain.
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For additively manufactured end-use products to be economically meaningful, additional functionalities will need to be incorporated in terms of electronic, electromechanical, electromagnetic, thermodynamic, and optical content. Research has recently focused on embedding electronic components and electrical interconnect into 3D printed structures either by interrupting the process or by inserting the additional content after the structure has been built. However, only until recently and with an investment from the national initiative on Additive Manufacturing – America Makes – has there been a concentrated research focus on developing technology that provides multi-functionality. This presentation will review work in multi-process 3D printing for creating structures with electromechanical actuation, electro-propulsion and the Internet of Things data acquisition in sand casting.

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Eric MacDonald, Ph.D. is a professor of electrical and computer engineering – with a joint appointment in manufacturing program and is the Friedman Chair for Manufacturing at Youngstown State University. Dr. MacDonald received his B.S. (1992), M.S. (1997) and Ph.D. (2002) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He worked in industry for 12 years at IBM and Motorola and subsequently co-founded a start-up - Pleiades Technologies, Inc. - specializing in self-test circuitry and CAD software and the startup was acquired by Magma Inc. (San Jose, CA). Dr. MacDonald spent 2003 to 2016 at the University of Texas at El Paso as the associate director of the W. M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation and held faculty fellowships at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, SPAWAR Navy Research (San Diego) and a State Department Fulbright Fellowship in South America. His research interests include 3D printed multi-functional applications and closed-loop control in additive manufacturing with instrumentation and computer vision for improved quality and yield. Recent projects include 3D printing of structures such as nano satellites with electronics in the structure (one of which was launched into Low Earth Orbit in 2013 and a replica of which is on display at the London Museum of Science). He has over 50 refereed publications, several patents (one of which was licensed by Sony and Toshiba from IBM). He is a member of ASEE, senior member of IEEE and a registered Professional Engineer in Texas.

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Assoc. Prof. Jozef Uličný, PhD. (57), biophysicist. Works at Institute of Physics, Department of biophysics, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice on computational modeling of biological systems, biomedical imaging and medical applications. Slovak representative of XBI consortium at European XFEL. His two PhD students founded so far four companies, SAFTRA IMAGINE being one of them. Together with PharmDr. Patrik Jakabčin is co-inventor of new contrasting solution improving visual contrasting of neoplastic tissue and facilitating its surgical removal via polypectomy. Cofounder of University startup SAFTRA IMAGINE, s.r.o. as CSO (chief scientific officer). Slovak and International (PCT) patent applications pending, Slovak industrial pattern awarded 2018. CVTI Award Innovation of the Year 2017.

Publishers of the best biomedical journals created a set of rules how a good quality paper should be written and other journals have been using these rules as well. Furthermore, strict rules have been followed concerning studies involving human subjects, including the obligatory registration of these studies in a recognized public registry. The lecture analyzes the current requirements of the best biomedical journals and gives the potential authors recommendations how to avoid problems that might be so serious that the high quality journals would refuse the manuscript.