(Medical Aerosol Thinktank)
MAD Board:
President: Harm Tiddens
Secretary: Frans de Jongh
Thesaurier: Carool Teirlinck
The MAD, funded in 1996, aims to study and apply aerosols in
Medicine.
Members of MAD participate in working groups and exchange study
results, experiences and knowledge.
The fields of interests of MAD are therapeutical aerosols without
limitations.
These encompasses designs, formulations, measurements and
productions of dry powder aerosols, nebulized wet aerosols and
pressurized metered dose inhalers, with add on equipments:
nebulizers, valved holding chambers, face masks, mouthpieces,
with the different powers: electrical compressors, springs,
gasses under pressure,
with the dosing systems: multi dose to single dose
with the different measurement techniques and systems: e.g.
impactors, laser- and optical devices,
with the pharmacological properties of drugs
for a wide spectrum of diseases.
All the relations between the physical properties of aerosols and
the inhaling patient with their capacities and limitations enjoy
the interest of MAD.
MAD-members, therefore come from many disciplines:
Pharmacologists, physiologists, physicists, physical engineers,
physicians, paediatricians, pulmonologists, scientists, officers
of the authorities, representatives of technical institutes,
representatives of pharmaceutical companies.
MAD chooses to act with the quality of complete independency,
without any scientific limitation.
Therefore everybody can participate in the meetings, that will be
held every half year, especially to present research, work,
results of studies and to discuss these in the most objective way.
Questions and remarks are kindly asked to be sent to
The secretary Dr.Ir. F.H.C. de Jongh
Engineering Fluid Dynamics
P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands. Europe
Phone ++31(0)53 489 1186
Fax ++31(0)53 489 3695
email : f.h.c.dejongh@utwente.nl