The programs in medical technologies are a first-of-its-kind program in the country offering Masters, PhD and Masters-PhD dual degrees.

ICMI 2023 brought together leading experts in engineering, medicine, industry and innovators from India and across the world to explore critical topics, share visions for the future, and build together.

The first Indian conference on medical technologies innovations (ICMI 2023) was jointly hosted by Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur and AIIMS Jodhpur from 24th to 26th February 2023. This one-of-a-kind conference was initiated by the students of the medical technologies programs jointly offered by IIT Jodhpur and AIIMS Jodhpur.  

The programs in medical technologies are a first-of-its-kind program in the country offering Masters, PhD and Masters-PhD dual degrees. Initiated in 2020, this is a multi-disciplinary program to produce deep-tech innovators in the field of Medical Technologies fuelled by the need for disruptive healthcare technologies, interdisciplinary breakthroughs, the global and national need for healthcare innovation, in the spirit of Atmanirbhar Bharat, Digital Health Mission and Make in India. 

ICMI 2023 brought together leading experts in engineering, medicine, industry and innovators from India and across the world to explore critical topics, share visions for the future, and build together. The conference started with a pre-conference seminar by Dr Vikram Sudarsan (President and CEO, Engrail Therapeutics, Inc. USA) on 19th February 2023. From 23rd to 25th February, ICMI was attended by more than 300 attendees from across the country, including IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, AIIMS Delhi, Datta Meghe University of Health Sciences Wardha and many more from academia, MedTech industry, research organizations and incubation centres. ICMI 2023 was inaugurated at Jodhpur club, IIT Jodhpur.

The Inaugural session included opening remarks by Prof. Santanu Chaudhury, Director of IIT Jodhpur, emphasizing that the joint MedTech Programs are Innovative programs that lead to a pathway of innovation to start up with Needs from real-life problems with deep-tech solutions. Dr Madhabanand Kar (Executive Director, AIIMS Jodhpur) applauded the coming together of Engineers and Physicians to develop technologies for the benefit of humankind as a unique collaborative effort and congratulated the programs for creating many opportunities for make in India.

Dr Sanjeev Misra, former director of AIIMS Jodhpur, who was involved with Prof Chaudhury from the program's inception, also joined online. He remarked on the First of its kind program in the country, allowing Doctors and engineers to work together, providing a platform for innovation to translation.