Schedule

Time (EST)  
8:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 Peizhu (Pam) Qian: Creating User-Centered, Interactive Robotic Tutors for Clinical Nursing Education
9:30 Joanna Bertram: Steerable Brachytherapy Needles and Automated Surgical Skill Assessment
10:00 Margaret McGuinness: Everting Toroidal Robots for Small-Intestine Endoscopy
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Alan Kuntz: Toward Principled Surgical and Interventional Autonomy
11:30 Giovanni Pittiglio: Contact-Aware Control of Continuum Robots for Autonomous Navigation in Stroke Therapy
12:00 Rising Star Poster Session
12:30 Lunch Break
1:30 Shan Lin: TBD
2:00 Xiaoguang Dong: Wireless Miniature Robots and Implantable Devices for Minimally Invasive Medical Operations
2:30 Fei Liu:  SurgiTwin: Digital Twins Meet Surgical Robotics and Physics-based Sim-to-Real Embodiment
3:00 Coffee Break
3:30 Mark Draelos: The micro made macro: Microsurgery at human scales
4:00 Round Table: Iulian Iordachita, Jaydev Desai, Caleb Rucker, Farshid Alambeigi
4:45 Rising Star Award
5:00 Closing Remarks & End of Workshop