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It is my great pleasure to welcome you all to this World Congress. We come from all over the world to share our knowledge of the field we love, exchange our views, and promote friendship. Our field is huge. If I were allowed to choose one word to characterize our field, I would say that it is diverse: diverse with a unified purpose. Our unified purpose is to understand the health and disease of man and animals, and to do what we can for the benefit of human beings. Together, we bring the entire field of engineering to serve medical research and health science. We use the engineering approach. We value scientific and humanitarian understanding. We believe that true understanding is the foundation of everything that is worthwhile. We use pure science. We use engineering science. We use technology. We develop new and old materials, tools, mathematics, computing techniques, informatics, laboratories and clinical trials. We hope to add clarity and definitiveness to our understanding of diseases, clinical approaches, medicine, surgery, physical exercise, nutrition, healing, and the sense of well-being. Knowledge has no boundaries; it cannot be compartmentalized. Hence, for us, diversity is normal; it is the key.
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Fung, B.YC. (2003). Keynote Lecture to the WCCBME Biomedical Engineering’s Many Foundations. In: Hwang, N.H.C., Woo, S.LY. (eds) Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering. Topics in Biomedical Engineering International Book Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8967-3_1
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