Women in MICCAI

Mission Statement

The mission of the Women in MICCAI (WiM) Committee is to strengthen and widen the representation of female scientists in the MICCAI community by pursuing policies that encourage more female participation in the field and ensure fair and equitable career promotion for female faculty and students - policies that assist in overcoming implicit gender bias within the community. WiM’s activities include: the coordination with the organizers of the annual MICCAI conferences, the organization of networking events within the community particularly at the MICCAI conference on an annual basis, the development and maintenance of online discussion and promotion platforms (e.g. Twitter Facebook, LinkedIn, Googlegroups), and interfacing and advising the MICCAI board on related matters.

History

The first of a series of informal, hour-long, networking events for female scientists within the community were held at MICCAI 2015 and at ISBI 2016. Several successful workshops for Women at CVPR and Women in Machine Learning were (WiML) were recently held. Based on the discussions and issues raised at those events, a group of faculty members in the community (Tal Arbel, Parvin Mousavi, Ipek Oguz, Gozde Unal) proposed to create a “Women in MICCAI (WiM) Committee”. Dr. Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, Fellow IBM, joined as an executive member from industry. The WiM committee was approved by the MICCAI board in October 2016. The executives of the committee change over time with founding and previous board members remaining involved as advisors. Membership is open to everyone.

WiM Code of Conduct

Contact

email: womeninmiccai@gmail.com

Twitter

Google Group for Email newsletters:
https://groups.google.com/g/women-in-miccai
women-in-miccai@googlegroups.com

Discord online community

WiM Inspirational Leadership Legacy

Youtube

Board Members

2023 and 2024 (Current)

Ruogu Fang (University of Florida) - President
Lei Li (University of Oxford) - Secretary
Feng Yang (Food and Drug Administration (FDA)) - Annual Event Executive
Nadieh Khalili (Radboud University)
Noha El-Zehiry (Wipro) - Industrial Liaison
Weina Jin (Simon Fraser University) - Public Outreach and Membership Officer
Azade Farshad (Technical University of Munich)
Nicha Dvornek (Yale University) - Honorary Elections Officer
Alice Othmani (Université Paris-Est Créteil) - Code of Conduct Officer
Bella Specktor (Haifa University) - Community Engagement Officer