4^th Biennial North American Summer School on Surgical Robotics

Participants

Participants will be recruited most prominently from among PhD and/or MD students, postdoctoral fellows, and residents in engineering, medicine, and the sciences whose research focuses on one or more aspects of Surgical/Medical Robotics, Image-Guided Interventions, Surgical Simulation and Training, Biomechatronics, and Medical Devices. Surgeons and industrial representatives are also most welcome. The Organizing Committee will evaluate all the applications received for the Summer School and select the final list of attendees.

Syllabus

Several lectures (of up to 90 minutes each) per day will give an in-depth coverage of topics such as surgical robotics, haptics and teleoperation, medical imaging, computer-assisted surgical planning, major therapy delivery techniques, surgical simulation, training, and performance assessment. Where appropriate, the lectures will also include case studies of system design, safety, regulatory issues, and intellectual property and commercialization issues. Attendees will have the opportunity to view live robotic surgery cases using the facilities available at Carnegie Mellon. Hands-on labs will be held at West Penn Allegheny Health System (WPAHS) and Carnegie Mellon University and will focus on surgical experience with animals in vivo (at WPAHS), surgical simulation and da Vinci robotic experiments (in the Simulation, Teaching, and Academic Research (STAR) Center at WPAHS), and novel surgical robotics (at Carnegie Mellon). The trainees will have an opportunity to interact with representatives from medical devices and biomedical technology companies during an Industry Forum.

Confirmed List of Speakers

• Michael Ost, M.D., Chief, Division of Pediatric Urology at Children’s Hospital of UPMC, and Associate Professor and Vice-Chairman, Department of Urology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• Umamaheswar Duvvuri, M.D., Ph.D., Director, UPMC Center for Robotic Head and Neck Surgery, and Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• Russell Taylor, Ph.D., John C. Malone Professor and Director, Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology, Johns Hopkins University
• Blake Hannaford, Ph.D., Professor and Director of the Biorobotics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle
• Rajni Patel, Ph.D., Tier-1 Canada Research Chair, Dept. Of Elect. & Comp. Engineering and Dept. of Surgery; Director of Engineering, CSTAR / University of Western Ontario
• Paolo Dario, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Robotics, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
• Pierre Dupont, Ph.D., Chief, Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering, Boston Children's Hospital
• Gregory Hager, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Dept. of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
• Philippe Poignet, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Robotics, LIRMM, University of Montpellier 2, France
• Nabil Simaan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
• Allison Okamura, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
• Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena, Ph.D., Reader in Medical Robotics, Imperial College London
• Sylvain Martel, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Computer Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal
• Elena de Momi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Simon DiMaio, Senior Manager, Research and Advanced Systems Development, Intuitive Surgical, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
• Takeo Kanade, Ph.D., U. A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, and Director of the Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center, Carnegie Mellon University
• Lee Weiss, Ph.D., Research Professor, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
• George Stetten, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, and Research Professor, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
• Howie Choset, Ph.D., Professor, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
• Cameron Riviere, Ph.D., Associate Research Professor, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University