By Ruogu Fang, President

Women in MICCAI Luncheon Networking Event 

The WiM luncheon networking event is scheduled for Monday, October 7, from 12:30 to 13:30 during MICCAI 2024. This gathering will feature seven esteemed panelists from both academia and industry who will share their invaluable career journeys. They will provide insights on how they navigated challenges and achieved success in their respective fields, with a focus on this year’s luncheon theme: health equity. This is a fantastic opportunity for attendees to gain knowledge, seek mentorship, and expand their networks. Lunch boxes and special gifts designed by the WiM Board committee will be provided.

WiM Awards to Promote Diversity and Inspire the Younger Generation

WiM is excited to announce two awards this year in conjunction with MICCAI 2024, aimed at enhancing the visibility of underrepresented groups, promoting diversity, and inspiring the younger generation within our community:

1.    WiM Award for the Best Health Equity Paper (deadline passed)
The WiM Best Health Equity Paper Award aims to recognize the paper contributed to the broad scope of health equity. Top three winners will receive $500/$300/$200 and an award certificate and will be invited to give a talk at the WiM webinar to promote their works.

2.    WiM Award for the Best Oral Presentation
This esteemed award aims to recognize the highest quality presentation among the accepted oral papers at the MICCAI 2024 main conference, where the presenters are women students and scientists. This award is open to all authors of the oral presentation papers at MICCAI 2024.

Qualified applicants are welcomed to apply using the following details:

Application link:WiM Award for the Best Oral Presentation
Deadline: 11.59 PM AoE, September 15, 2024.

 Successful First Webinar in the “Health Equity in the AI Era” Series

Women in MICCAI successfully hosted the first webinar in the "Health Equity in the AI Era: A Humanistic Approach to Fair and Equitable Medical AI" series on June 20, 2024. Dr. Kerry McInerney from the University of Cambridge delivered an invited talk titled “The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism.” The webinar was well-attended and well-received, sparking many follow-up questions during the Q&A session on topics such as sources of bias, policy making, and underrepresented language in large language models (LLMs). We look forward to hosting more webinars featuring researchers in the health equity AI field and winners of the WiM Award for the Best Health Equity Paper.

 For any questions, please contact Ruogu.Fang@bme.ufl.edu.

Best regards, 

WiM Board Committee