Executive Committee

Program Chairs

• Russell Taylor, JHU, USA
• Guang-Zhong Yang, Imperial College, UK

Area Chairs

• Purang Abolmaesoumi, UBC, Canada
• Kevin Cleary, DC Children’s Hospital, USA
• Dave Hawkes, UCL, UK
• Thomas Langø, SINTEF, Norway
• Tim Salcudean, UBC, Canada
• Ichiro Sakuma, University of Tokyo, Japan

General Chair

• Nassir Navab, CAMP/TUM, Germany

Publication Chair

• Pierre Jannin, INRIA/INSERM, Rennes, France

Financial Chair

• Leo Joskowicz, Hebrew University, Israel

Panel Chair

• Kensaku Mori, Nagoya University, Japan

Local Organization Chair

• Stefanie Demirci, CAMP/TUM, Germany

Publicity Chair

• Martin Horn, CAMP/TU Munich, Germany

Scientific Review Committee

Systems, Software, and Validation

• Yoshinobu Sato, Osaka, Japan
• Luc Soler, IRCAD, France
• Noby Hata, BWH, USA
• Kirby Vosburgh, MGH, USA
• Wolfgang Birkfellner, University of Vienna, Austria
• Lutz Nolte, University of Bern, Switzerland
• Randy Ellis, Queens University, Canada

Interventional Robotics and Navigation

• Jocelyne Troccaz, TIMC /CNRS, France
• Gabor Fichtinger, Queens University, Canada
• Brian Davies, Imperial College, London
• Koji Ikuta, Nagoya, Japan
• Kiyoyuki Chinzei, Tsukuba, Japan
• Lena Maier-Hein, DKFZ, Germany

Surgical Planning, Simulation, and Advanced Intra-Op Visualization

• Terry Peters, London, Canada
• Gábor Székely, ETH, Switzerland
• Hervé Delingette, INRIA, France
• Ken Masamune, Tokyo, Japan
• Sebastien Ourselin, London, UK

Interventional Imaging

• Alison Noble, Oxford, UK
• Emad Boctor, JHU, USA
• Ali Kamen, SCR, USA
• Joachim Hornegger, Erlangen, Germany
• Pierre Hellier, Rennes, France
• Ramtin Shams, ANU, Australia
• Guoyan Zheng, Bern, Switzerland

Cognition, Modeling and Context Awareness

• Louis Collins, BIC, Canada
• Benoit Dawant, Vanderbilt, USA
• Greg Hager, JHU, USA
• Hayit Greenspan, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Peter Kazanzides, JHU, USA

Industrial Liaisons

• Wolfgang Wein, White Lion Tech. GmbH, Germany
• Ameet Jain, Philips, USA
• Tom Vercauteren, Mauna Kea, France
• Simon DiMaio, Intuitive Surgical, USA
• Joerg Traub, SurgicEye, Germany
• Leslie Holton, Medtronic, USA
• Frank Sauer, Siemens Corporate Research, USA