About Us
The GCEA is an international organization that represents the Clinical Engineering field worldwide and guides its evolution.
Global Clinical Engineering Alliance
In the last 15 years, Clinical Engineering experienced an amazing growth of international interactions.
In 2015, the I International Clinical Engineering and Health Technology Management Congress ICEHTMC was promoted, and additional initiatives dedicated only to clinical engineering subjects followed: the Clinical Engineering Day, the Global Clinical Engineering Journal, and the Global Clinical Engineering Summit.
In October 2020, during CE day, it was announced the creation of the Global Clinical Engineering Alliance – GCEA with a mission to serve the international community of Clinical Engineering professionals by promoting research and sharing best practices trough collaboration with healthcare stakeholders.
GCEA was created to
Empower and Recognize
the Clinical Engineering (CE) Profession for its unique contribution to improving healthcare delivery outcomes.
Serve
the interests of patients and care providers everywhere by leveraging alliances of limited resources available in and around CE profession.
Combine
strengths and jointly leverage national associations to address shared healthcare challenges.
Provide
international professional networking between and across healthcare stake holders, associations, policy makers, global agencies, academia, government, and industry.
Prepare
clinical engineering professionals for career opportunities through harmonization and promotion of adequate CE education, proper competence, and ethical training.
Provide
a platform to identify, educate, contribute to, and share best practices, technical guidelines, and regulations related to healthcare technologies.
Promote
CE understanding of healthcare technology life cycles, development, and commercialization and to participate in publishing outcomes from their involvement related to these cycles.
Educate
the public about the importance role that CE practitioners fulfill in public health, safety, and welfare.
Our goal is to educate and advocate through global CE alliances by serving as One Voice, for One Field, for All Patients and staff Everywhere!
Founders Council
The FC consists of members of the Clinical Engineering field from around the world representing themselves as individuals who see the need for a unique and uniform international representation for the field. FC membership consists of the following individuals:
Yadin David
USA / Founders Council Member
Global Clinical Engineering Journal Editor-in-Chief and former Director of BE Department of Texas Children's Hospital.
Wayne Morse
USA / Founders Council Member
Founding member of ACCE, former owner of Morse Medical, Operative, and Bellegrove Medical.
Keiko Fukuta
JAP / Founders Council Member
Former CE at Sanei Cordio and MC Healthcare and current member of the Medical Device Unit at WHO.
Tom Judd
USA / Founders Council Member
IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division Board Chair and former National Project Director at Kaiser Permanente.
Nicolas Pallikarakis
GRE / Founders Council Member
Experienced Clinical Engineer and Collaborator of the IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division.
Mladen Poluta
ZAF / Founders Council Member
Director of Health Technology at the West Cape Department of Health.
Transitional Period
During the transitional period between the public announcement about the establishment of the Global Clinical Engineering Alliance (GCEA) and the first election of GCEA officers, the administration of GCEA shall be governed by the Founders’ Council.
The Transitional Period will extend until the date of 29/09/2021 when the results of the First Election of the officers for the Global Clinical Engineering Alliance will be announced. The candidates for this First Election shall occupy the positions of President, President-elect, Treasurer, and Secretary. The Immediate “Past President” shall be appointed by the Founders’ council.
