THE SATAVA AWARD

 

The 17th annual Satava Award wil be presented at MMVR19. Established in 1995 to acknowledge the contribution of Richard M. Satava MD FACS, the award is presented to an individual or research group demonstrating unique vision and commitment to the improvement of medicine through advanced technology.

The 16th annual Satava Award was presented on Friday, February 11, 2011, to Kirby G. Vosburgh of Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Following a long career at GE, Dr Vosburgh was Associate Director of CIMIT for ten years; he continues to direct the Clinical Image Guidance Laboratory. With this award, Dr Vosburgh was acknowledged for his longstanding advocacy of virtual and augmented reality systems as clinically viable environments for surgical and gastroenterological interventions.  


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 Kirby G. Vosburgh PhD, Recipient of the 2011 Satava Award


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Kirby with members of the MMVR18 Organizing Committee (left to right): Rick Satava, Heinz Lemke, Jim Westwood, Kirby Vosburgh, Richard Robb, and Michael Ackerman. 

[Photos credit: J. Harvey Magee, (c) 2011]


Prior Satava Award recipients are:

  • Richard M. Satava MD FACS (1995)
  • Michael J. Ackerman PhD & Victor M. Spitzer PhD, for the Visible Human Project (1996)
  • Henry Fuchs PhD (1997)
  • Gerhard F. Buess MD (1998)
  • Faina Shtern MD (1999)
  • Dave Warner MD PhD (2000)
  • Human Interface Technology Lab (HIT Lab), University of Washington (2001)
  • Stanford University Medical Media & Information Technologies (SUMMIT) (2002)
  • Richard A. Robb PhD (2003)
  • Steven L. Dawson MD (2004)
  • Brenda K. Wiederhold PhD MBA BCIA (2005)
  • Nigel W. John PhD (2006)
  • Naoki Suzuki PhD (2007)
  • Alan Liu PhD & Mark Bowyer MD (2008)
  • Helene M. Hoffman PhD (2009)

 

If you have questions about the Satava Award, please contact Jim Westwood, the program coordinator, at MMVR19 [mmvr19-at-nextmed-dot-com].