- Thursday April 20 2017
8:00 Registration Opening 9:00 Hans Hilgenkamp, Ph.D. (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands) will open the conference. Plenary Lectures 9:10 Technical Medicine Educational Program Heleen Miedema, Ph.D. (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands). 9:30 Getting more out of finite resources: The three R’s and physiologic models. Willem van Meurs, Ph.D. (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands). Keynote 10:00 Models as epistemic tools. Mieke Boon, Ph.D. (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands). 11:00 Coffee Break Plenary Lectures 11:30 An explanatory model for pulmonary atresia Timothy Antonius, M.D. (Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands). 12:00 In-silico simulation of human physiology: a sustainable alternative to animal experiments. Luísa Ferreira Bastos, Ph.D. (Institute of Research and Innovation for Healthcare, Porto, Portugal). 12:30 Lunch break 13:30 Jan Beneken lectures (investigators) 15:00 Tea break Workshops 15:30 Site visit: The Experimental Centre for Technical Medicine 15:30 Group brainstorm: ‘Mean circulatory filling pressure, a sewer aligator?’ 15:30 An explanatory model for pulmonary atresia 16:30 Klootschieten (“Ball shooting” – traditional Dutch sport) 18:00 Free time 19:00 Conference dinner Friday April 21 2017
9:00 Nico Westerhof lectures (young investigators) 11:00 Coffee Break Plenary Lectures 11:30 The average filling pressure: a sewer alligator? Lex van Loon, M.Sc. (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands). 12:00 Modelling in cardiovascular biomechanics: from the lab to the hospital Patrick Segers, Ph.D. (Ghent University, Belgium) 12:30 Awards and closing remarks