9:00 am - 9:10 am – Welcome / Introduction

9:10 am - 9:50 am – Theme 1: Clinical and Systems Perspective

Russell Taylor, Johns Hopkins University – A Perspective on Flexible Robots for MIS

Joseph Madsen, MD, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School – Evolution of the Surgical Robot:  the Case for Slithering

9:50 am - 10:30 am – Theme 2: Clinical Challenges and Commercialization

Neal Tanner, Hansen Medical, Inc. – Robotic Catheter-based Minimally Invasive Procedures: The Sensei X Case Study

Howie Choset, Carnegie Mellon University – Enabling Medical Robotics for the Next Generation of Minimally Invasive Procedures

10:30 am - 10:50 am – Coffee Break

10:50 am - 11:30 am – Theme 2 (continued): Clinical Challenges and Commercialization

Cameron Riviere, Carnegie Mellon University – HeartLander: an Epicardial Crawling Robot for Beating-Heart Surgery

Pierre Dupont, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School – Concentric Tube Robots – from Lab Bench to Operating Room

11:30 am - 12:45 pm – Poster Presentation

        One-minute poster teasers followed by poster viewing

12:45 pm - 2:00 pm – Lunch

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm – Theme 3: Technology

  

Nabil Simaan, Columbia University  – Robotic Technologies for NOTES, Single Port Access Surgery, and Minimally Invasive Surgery in Confined Spaces

Koji Ikuta, Nagoya University – From SMA Active Endoscope to Micro Catheter

Robert Webster, Vanderbilt University – Modeling, shape sensing, image guidance, and therapeutic applicator integration: Enabling technologies for clinical continuum robots

3:00 pm - 3:20 pm – Theme 4: Control, Sensing and Imaging

Guang-Zhong Yang, Imperial College – Real-time in situ in vivo surgical sensing and imaging

3:20 pm - 3:50 pm – Coffee break

3:50 pm - 4:50 pm – Theme 4: Control, Sensing and Imaging (continued)

Rajni Patel, University of Western Ontario – Robot-Assisted Active Catheter Control

David Camarillo; UCSF, Stanford and Hansen Medical, Inc. – Control of Robotic Catheters for Cardiac Ablation

Mohsen Mahvash, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School – Active Stiffness Control of Surgical Continuum Robots

4:50 pm - 5:50 pm – Discussion and Closing