2023 Charles Sorbie Faculty Research Day | Department of Surgery | School of Medicine

The 2023 Charles Sorbie Faculty Research Day took place at the Delta Hotel Kingston Waterfront on April 21, 2023. The guest speaker was Dr. Nassir Navab, a Professor from Technical University of Munich and Johns Hopkins University.

Bio: Nassir Navab is a full Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Computer Aided Medical Procedures, Technical University of Munich and Johns Hopkins University. He also has secondary faculty appointments at both affiliated Medical Schools. He completed his PhD at INRIA and University of Paris XI, France, and enjoyed two years of a post-doctoral fellowship at MIT Media Laboratory before joining Siemens Corporate Research (SCR) in 1994. At SCR, he was a distinguished member and received the Siemens Inventor of the Year Award in 2001. He received the SMIT Society Technology award in 2010 and the ‘10 years lasting impact award’ of IEEE ISMAR in 2015. In 2012, he was elected as a Fellow of the MICCAI Society. He has acted as a member of the board of directors of the MICCAI Society, 2007-2012 and 2014-2017, and serves on the Steering committee of the IEEE Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) and Information Processing in Computer Assisted Interventions (IPACI). He is the author of hundreds of peer reviewed scientific papers, with more than 24700 citations and an h-index of 77 as of April 2019, He is author of more than thirty awarded papers including 10 at MICCAI and three at IEEE ISMAR. He is the inventor of 47 granted US. patents and more than 50 International ones. His current research interests include multimodal imaging, augmented reality in medical education and training, computer-aided surgery, medical robotics, and machine learning.

Congratulations to the following Award winners:

The Dr. John Rudan Resident Award of Excellence – Yaser Tawfeeq, PGY3

This award was established to value the academic development of a surgical resident in Orthopaedic Surgery. It recognizes an individual that consistently demonstrates all the qualities of an excellent surgical resident, specifically the highest level of professionalism, collegiality, and clinical care.

Clerkship Awards; Recognition of professionalism, leadership and teaching.

Resident Clerkship Award – Dr. Daniel Potter, PGY4

Faculty Clerkship Award – Dr. Sean Bennett (Division of General Surgery)

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