Upcoming Webinar: Enhancing precision medical procedures
At the forefront of technologies to improve robot-assisted surgery and diagnostics
Date 2024
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 @ 11am-12pm PT (2-3pm ET)
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Recent advances in robotics and control have enabled the vast majority of current surgeries in North America to be carried out in a minimally invasive manner, which leads to shorter hospital stays and faster recovery for patients. However, there remains a lack of guidance tools available to surgeons for real-time visualization of internal structures within the body, and new technologies are needed to enhance these precision medical procedures.
The Robotics Control Laboratory at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is a leading research facility at the forefront of image-guided diagnosis and interventions. Technologies developed in the laboratory have advanced real-time video imagery for medical procedures, and have been integrated into products sold around the world.
In this webinar, Dr. Tim Salcudean, Professor in the UBC Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and one leaders of the Robotics Control Laboratory, will highlight research projects that he has co-led in this field, including advanced imaging techniques to guide robotic surgeries and novel ultrasound-based technologies for assessing liver disease. He will describe the important role that partners in industry have played in these projects, as well as the challenges and opportunities that these partnerships can generate.
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Webinar Speaker
Dr. Tim Salcudean
University of British Columbia
Dr. Tim Salcudean is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, and holds a Canada Research Chair and the C.A. Laszlo Chair in Biomedical Engineering. Formerly, he was part of the robotics group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and the editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. His research focuses on ultrasound, teleoperation and image-guided surgical robotics.
