A very successful WiM Luncheon Networking and Panel event was held on October 10, 2023, in conjunction with MICCAI 2023 in Vancouver, Canada, drawing over 150 attendees. A panel of five accomplished women leaders in academia and industry sparked a heated Q&A session with many insightful questions and stellar responses.

Q&A session in WiM Luncheon and Panel 2023

 WiM is also proud to present the winners of the "WiM Award for the Best Oral Presentation" and “WiM Inspirational Leadership Legacy Initiative (WILL) Awards”. 

Best Oral Presentation:

Luisa Gallée; Interpretable Medical Image Classification using Prototype Learning and Privileged Information; University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany 

Honourable Mentions:

Xinrui Yuan; Multi-task Joint Prediction of Infant Cortical Morphological and Cognitive Development; Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China 

Ruby Wood; Joint Prediction of Response to Therapy, Molecular Traits, and Spatial Organisation in Colorectal Cancer Biopsies; Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

WiM Inspirational Leadership Legacy Initiative (WILL) Awards 

First Prize: Weina Jin and Hanene Ben Yedder; Simon Fraser University

Second Prize: Skylar E. Stolte, Kyle B. See and Aprinda Indahlastari; University of Florida

Third Prize: Ahmed Nebli and Nataliia Fedorchenko; Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine -1 Structural and Functional Organisation of the Brain, Research Centre Juelich

 WiM 2023 Awards for Best Oral Presentation and WILL Competition

Introducing the new WiM Board 

We also welcome the new WiM Board. Led by Dr. Ruogu Fang as President, with nine other board members, who are committed and full of inspiration to strengthen and widen the representation of female scientists in the MICCAI community.

Ruogu Fang (University of Florida) – President

Lei Li (University of Oxford) – Secretary

Feng Yang (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

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