Alvin Libin Chair

Established in 2006, the Alvin Libin Alberta Ingenuity Chair in Biomedical Engineering is a renewable 5 year term award comprised of $150,000 per year from the Schulich fund (Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary) and an additional $100,000 per year from Alberta Ingenuity.  The goal is to make a significant contribution to the improvement of safety and quality of health care delivered to Albertans through "Engineered Care", a major multi-disciplinary initiative between the Schulich School of Engineering and the Calgary Health Region.

This is a 10 year award ($1,000,000 from Ingenuity and $1,500,000 from U of C) as per the agreement between the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Science and Engineering Research and the Governors of the University of Calgary. (contingent upon satisfactory reporting during the 5th year of the award).

The major goal of the initiative is to develop and deploy the next-generation of wireless diagnostic and monitoring devices and to deploy them in the "Ward of the 21st Century", a fully functional ward at the Foothills Hospital.  The chair has a critical responsibility to establish a strong relationship with medical researchers and the medical supply industry along with numerous other key performance requirements.

Recipient: Dr. Michal Okoniewski

A new imaging technology that can look into living cells and micro-scale, micro-machined devices to provide a dramatic improvement to communication devices, are among the list of innovative research projects underway in the research group lead by the Alvin Libin Chair in Biomedical Engineering, Dr. Michal Okoniewski.  He and his team at the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, are using their knowledge of applied electromagnetics to solve both theoretical and practical problems that also include advanced material research, new Radio Frequency (RF) devices, medical diagnostics and patient care.