Inviting nominations to the MICCAI Society Board
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Call for Nominations
Nominations close August 17, 2026
MICCAI Society Members
The MICCAI Society oversees the annual MICCAI Conference and associated workshops series. It is responsible for selecting future conferences and organizing committees; it sponsors and coordinates a number of prizes and an annual Fellow election process; has an active MICCAI Student Board, Women in MICCAI Board, RISE-MICCAI Board and Special Interest Groups; distributes information about jobs, meetings, and summer schools; and is expanding its activities in support of student education and early career advancement activities. The Society is run by a small professional team and an international group of academic volunteers who are called the MICCAI Society Board.
Members of the MICCAI Society Board are appointed upon election, for a tenure of four years. Board members may serve a maximum of two full terms (eight years), consecutive or not. Of the current Board, four members are due to rotate off on February 1, 2027: Jinah Park, Nicola Rieke, Pingkun Yan, and Xiahai Zhuang.
Jinah, Nicola, and Pingkun have each served one four-year term, so they may be nominated for a second term. Xiahai has served on the Board since 2022, first in a member-elected position, then as Board Treasurer beginning in 2024. We will start a procedure to elect a new Treasurer from and by the current Board members shortly.
We have an annual process to fill three Board vacancies. For the positions that will take effect on February 1, 2027, one is reserved for the 2029 MICCAI Conference chair, which is yet to be announced. Of the other two Board members, one is elected by the MICCAI Board, the other is elected by open vote from and by the MICCAI membership. This message concerns the latter position.
We encourage you to nominate and vote in this important election. Please discuss this with your colleagues over the next few weeks and encourage people to be nominated for Board election (or get people to nominate you).
Nomination Process
Nominees should be experienced faculty members at their institution or senior staff in their company or other organization, should have an international reputation in one or more of the themes of MICCAI, and should have been active participants in MICCAI conferences (i.e., attended most of them in the last 10 years).
Note that nominations for the membership-elected position must satisfy the following rules:
- Only MICCAI Society members can nominate. To check your membership status, contact membership@miccai.org
- Only 2026/2027 members of the MICCAI Society can be nominated.
- In addition to the primary nomination by the nominator, each nominee needs a total of three nomination endorsements from MICCAI members of three different institutions.
- Each Society member can nominate only one candidate for this election.
- Nominees will be required to introduce themselves and present their qualifications for serving on the MICCAI Society Board in a presentation to the membership at the MICCAI 2026 conference.
Please submit your nomination no later than August 17, 2026.
Send your nomination via email to me at m.viergever@umcutrecht.nl and copy our Board Secretariat, Janette Wallace, at jwallace@consult21.ca.
Thank you for engaging in this important process, and for exercising your unique benefit as a MICCAI Society member to participate in nominating and electing members to its Board of Directors.
Sincerely,
Max Viergever
MICCAI Honorary Elections Officer