BMEIS PGR Symposium 2021 - King's College London

Registration website

The School of Biomedical Engineering &
Imaging Sciences (BMEIS) is holding its annual Postgraduate Research (PGR) Symposium online.

The symposium will take place from 13:00 until 18:00 on23 June 2021.

It will showcase the research being undertaken by our PhD students in the School and its CDTs as part of a varied programme, with an audience that brings together clinicians, academics, postdocs, professional staff, PhD students from our School, as well as industry partners. The event is organised by a committee of School PGR students.

All members of the School and associated CDTs are invited to join.

Symposium Format

More information about speakers and joining links for the poster sessions will be added over the coming weeks.

There will be three main sections:

1) MS Teams Live Event 1

A streaming event with invited and proffered talks and a moderated Q&A.

13:00 Introduction and Welcome

• Professor Sebastien Ourselin, Head of the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King's College London

13:05 - 13:15 Public Engagement

• Dr Samantha Terry, Senior Lecturer in Radiobiology, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King's College London

• Ines Costa,PhD student, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King's College London

• Aishwarya Mishra, PhD student, Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Smart Medical Imaging, King's College London and Imperial College London

13:15 - 13:25 Diversity and Bullying

• Dr Valentina Vitiello, Professional Services Deputy Representative for the School DDI Committee; Specialist Technical Operations Manager, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King's College London

13:25 - 14:05 Keynote speech: Cognitive Vision in Robotic Surgery

• Dr Stamatia Giannarou, Royal Society University Research Fellow and Lecturer in Surgical Cancer Technology and Imaging at the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London

14:05 - 14:35 Three-Minute Thesis Presentations by Students

14.35 - 15.00 A series of 1-minute poster pitches

You can join Live Event 1 here.

2) Poster Sessions

Interactive poster discussions taking place on the Wonder.me platform. Please use the Google Chrome, or Edge browser to access the rooms.

15:00 - 15:45 Poster presentations in two streams

• Stream 1 will focus on Biomedical Engineering and AI themes - join here;
• Stream 2 will focus on Imaging Chemistry and Biology themes - join here.

3) MS Teams Live Event 2

A streaming event with invited and proffered talks and a moderated Q&A.

15:45 - 16:30 Debate:The role of AI in Healthcare

• Dr Andrew P. King (Moderator), Reader in Medical Image Analysis, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King's College London

• Dr Yipeng Hu, Lecturer in Surgical and Interventional Sciences, Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Science, UCL

• Prof Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Assistant in Neuroscience, Massachusetts General Hospital

• Dr Michael Ebner, CEO & Co-Founder, Hypervision Surgical; Research Associate, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King's College London

16:30 - 17:00 Student Oral Presentations

17:00 - 17:45 Panel Discussion: Imaging biomarkers of the past, present and future

• Dr Rafael T. M. de Rosales (Panel chair), Reader in Imaging Chemistry, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King's College London

• Prof Peter Caravan, Director of the Institute for Innovation in Imaging (i3), Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School

• Prof Nerissa Viola, Associate Professor, Molecular Imaging Program Leader, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University

• Dr Patricia Ribeiro Pereira, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

17:45 - 18:00 Prize giving and closing

You can join Live Event 2 here.

We are also organising a social online networking event after the meeting; we invite you to join us on Wonder.me from 18.00, using this link.

Should you wish to contact the organising committee, you can reach us at [email protected].