Washington State Biomedical Association

Title: Joint WSBA/OBA Annual Symposium Location: North Seattle Community College Start Date: 09-18-2009 End Date: 09-19-2009 Please RSVP by emailing: secretary@bmet.org

I apologize that this post is late.  Ben’s Precision Instruments, in Fife, hosted our June meeting. As tradition dictates, the good folks at Ben’s put on the feed bag and warmly welcomed our members to their state-of-the-art facility. With several barbeques burning, they cooked up a whole lot of hamburgers, chicken and hot dogs with [...]

David Sieminski, Senior Field Service Specialist for Hospital Respiratory Care with Philips, hosted the May 20th meeting of the WSBA at Harborview Medical Center. Christopher Cella, Clinical Specialist with Philips gave our talk on Respiratory Ventilation . David and Philips kindly agreed to let us post their PowerPoint presentation from the very informative lecture on [...]

The WSBA met April 15th at Virginia Mason Medical Center. Jerry Norimatsu, Field Service Engineer for Echoserve presented a talk on the “Basics of DICOM and Network Troubleshooting,” which gave us several basic troubleshooting  tips for  networking problems. Afterwards, Courtney Allen, Radiology Applications Specialist with Virginia Mason, provided DICOM’s troubleshooting side. Both speakers gave thorough [...]

March Meeting of the WSBA The Washington State Biomedical Association met March 18 at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. It was a first-rate opportunity to see the equipment used to support cutting edge research. After an excellent dinner of gourmet pizza and salad, the Engineering Manager, Cliff Slaughterbeck, PhD., gave a talk entitled, “This [...]

The WSBA February meeting was held at Evergreen Hospital. Modern Medical Systems, which provides biomedical services to the hospital, hosted the meeting and provided dinner. Johnny Shuffield, District Service Manager, brought Brett Taggart, Service Support Account Manager, Pauline Sprague, Sales Representative, and Larry Hetzer, Service Technician, with him to give a presentation on the PM [...]