Monday, January 28, 2019
16H00: Welcome and inauguration of the Conference by local authorities
Welcome to Mr. Luis Padrón – Director of Casa Africa.
General introduction of the workshop – Prof. Juan Ruiz-Alzola, MACbioIDi IP, ULPGC.
Professor. Ron Kikinis, Director of the Surgical Planning Lab, Brigham & Women's Hospital – Harvard Medical School, USA Director of the Fraunhofer MEVIS Institute for Digital Medicine, Germany
Words of Mr. Gonzalo Piernavieja, vice of industry, Energy and tourism of the Government of the Canary Islands.
Remarks by Prof. Rafael Robaina, Rector of the University of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria.
Words of Mr. José Manuel Baltar, Minister of Health, Government of the Canary Islands.
16h30: Presentation of the representative of Mauritania
Mr. Haouba Ahmedou – Rector of Al-Aasriya University, Mauritania
Dr. Dada Lebchir – Dean of the Faculty of Medicine – Al-Aasriya University, Mauritania
16H40: Presentation by the representative of Senegal
Dr. Cheikh Tacko Diop – Director of Fann Hospital, Senegal
Professor. Bara Ndiaye – Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine – Cheikh Anta Diop University of Senegal
16H50: Presentation of the representative of Cape Verde
Professor. Aristides Lopes Da Silva – Vice-rector of Praia University, Cape Verde
Dr. Victor Manuel Moreira Da Costa – Director of the Hospital Agostinho Neto Praia, Cape Verde
17h00: Introduction to Technical sessions
Professor. Ron Kikinis, Director of the Surgical Planning Lab, Brigham & Women's Hospital – Harvard Medical School, USA. Director of Fraunhofer MEVIS Institute for Digital Medicine, Germany
17H15: Presentation on low-cost image-guided therapy
Andras Lasso – Associate Director (Engineering)-Perklab-Canada. Prof. Gabor Fichtinger-Director; Professor and Canada Research Chair-Perklab-Canada
17H45: Presentation on robotics
Dr. Kevin Cleary, Technical Director, Bioengineering Initiative-Sheikh Zayed Institute for pediatric Surgical innovation – USA
Tuesday 29 January 2019
11h00: Presentation on Anatomy segmentation-Includes presentation of a DEMO
Dr. Mike Halle-Director of Technology Development & director of visualization-Surgical Planning Lab, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Andras Lasso – Associate Director (Engineering)-Perklab – Canada
Professor. Babacar Diao – Military School of health-Senegal
13h00: Closing of authorities and organizers.
Mr. Luis Padrón – Director of Casa Africa.
Workshop Conclusions
Professor. Juan Ruiz-Alzola, MACbioIDi IP, ULPGC.
Professor. Ron Kikinis, Director of the Surgical Planning Lab, Brigham & Women's Hospital – Harvard Medical School, USA Director of the Fraunhofer MEVIS Institute for Digital Medicine, Germany
Professor. Carmen Rubio, Vice-rector of internationalization of the University of La Laguna.
Professor. Richard Clouet, Vice-rector of internationalization and cooperation of the University of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria.
Professor. José Pablo Suárez, vice-rector of research, innovation and transfer of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Mr. Conrado Domínguez, Director of Canarian Health Service of the Canary Islands.
List of international assistants
United States
Dr. Ron Kikinis
Director of the Surgical Planning Laboratory, Department of Radiology at Brigham and women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Https://www.mevis.fraunhofer.de/en/employees/ron-kikinis.html
Professor. Sonia Pujol
Assistant professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School. Director of the Outreach of the Neuroimaging Analysis Center (NAC). Director of the Training of the 3d slicer Open-source Software Platform at Brigham and women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Https://lmi.med.harvard.edu/people/sonia-pujol
Professor. Kevin Cleary, PhD.
Doctor. Technical Director, bioengineering research-Sheikh Zayed Institute for pediatric Surgical innovation – Washington D.C.
Https://childrensnational.org/research-and-education/about-cri/faculty-and-leadership-directory/kevin-cleary
Professor. Nikos Makris, PhD.
Director of the Center for Morphometric Analysis and the MGH Morphometric Analysis Center Core. Co-Director of the Center for Neural Systems Investigations – Harvard Medical School, Boston.
https://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/user/6001
Dr. Michael Halle
Director of the Technology Development & director of visualization-Surgical Planning Lab, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Http://www.spl.harvard.edu/pages/People/halazar
Dr. Douglas M Bowden
University of Washington Medical School.
Https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/713/bio
Dr. Steve Pieper
Director of the company ISOMICS
Canada
Professor. Gabor Fichtinger
Director Professor and Canada Research Chair – Perklab. Laboratory for Percutaneous Surgery – University of Queen´s
http://research.cs.queensu.ca/~gabor/
Dr. Andras Lasso
Associate Director of the Laboratory for Percutaneous Surgery – Universidad Queen´s
Http://perk.cs.queensu.ca/users/lasso
FRANCE
Professor. Jean-Jacques Lemaire
Neurosurgeon (MD, PhD), PUPH-Director of the neurosurgery service of CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Hospital Gabriel Montpied
Senegal
Dr. Cheikh Tacko Diop
Director of the Fann Hospital – Ministry of Health and Social action of Senegal
Dr. Ibrahima Bara Diop
Director of the Fann Hospital Telemedicine Center – Ministry of Health and Social action
Dr. Moussa Sam Daff
Director of the Hospital Dalal Diam
Dr. Bara Ndiaye
Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine – Cheikh Anta DIOP University
Dr. Malick Ndiaye
Director of the Military School of Health – Dakar Dr. Babacar Diao
Director of studies and Control services of the Directorate of Health – Armed forces of Senegal
Mauritania
Mr. Ahmedou Haouba
Rector of Al-Aasriya University, Nouakchott
Dr. Dada Lebchir
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the university Al-Aasriya, Nouakchott
Dr. Outouma Antoine
Director of the Nouakchott specialties Hospital
Cape VERDE
Dr. Aristides Lopes Silva
Vice-rector of Research University of Praia-Cape Verde
Dr. Victor Costa
Clinical Director Hospital Agostinho Neto de Praia