We are proud to announce that our very own Gabor Fichtinger has won the MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society) Enduring Impact Award. This is the most prestigious award of the MICCAI Society. It is awarded to a senior researcher whose work has made an enduring impact on the field of medical image computing and computer assisted interventions.
It is an honour and a privilege to have him lead us in this area in the world.
About Gabor Fichtinger
Gabor Fichtinger is a Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Computer-Integrated Surgery. He works at the School of Computing with cross appointments in Surgery, Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Electrical, and Computer Engineering for Queen’s University. Dr. Fichtinger holds Adjunct Professor appointment at several prestigious universities: in Computer Science and Radiology at The John’s Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA), in Medical Biophysics at Western University (London, ON) and in Medical Physics at the Medical University of Vienna (Austria). He is an Honorary University Professor at the University Budensis (Budapest, Hungary) and Affiliated Faculty at the Techna Institute of the University Health Network and University of Toronto.