Professor Lord Darzi and Professor Yang would like to invite you to the Inaugural Workshop for The Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery to be held at The Royal Geographical Society from 1300hrs on Tuesday 6th May 2008.
Please find attached the programme for the afternoon in which we are delighted to include Dr Frederic Moll, Co-Founder and CEO of Hansen Medical and Professor Bradley Nelson, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS), as our two keynote speakers.
Please see attached short bios for your information.
Biography: Frederic H Moll, MD, Chief Executive Officer
Frederic H. Moll, M.D. is a Co-Founder of Hansen Medical and has served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer and a Director since the company’s inception in September 2002. In November 1995, Dr. Moll Co-founded Intuitive Surgical Inc., a medical device company, and served as its first Chief Executive Officer and later, its Vice President and Medical Director until September 2003. In 1989, Dr. Moll Co-founded Origin Medsystems, Inc., a medical device company, which later became an operating company within Guidant Corporation, a medical device company, following its acquisition by Eli Lilly in 1992. Dr. Moll served as Medical Director of Guidant’s Surgical Device Division until November 1995. Dr. Moll holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, a M.S. from Stanford University and a M.D. from the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Professor Bradley Nelson: Brad Nelson is the Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zürich. He received a B.S. (Mechanical Engineering) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984, an M.S. (Mechanical Engineering) from the University of Minnesota in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in Robotics (School of Computer Science) from Carnegie Mellon University in 1995. During these years he also worked as an engineer at Honeywell and Motorola, and served as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Botswana, Africa. In 1995 he became Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota in 1998, and Professor at ETH in 2002. He was named to the 2005 “Scientific American 50” <http://www.iris.ethz.ch/msrl/people/sciam05press-releasev2.pdf> , Scientific American magazine’s annual list recognizing fifty outstanding acts of leadership in science and technology from the past year for his efforts in nanotube manufacturing. His lab won the 2007 RoboCup Nanogram Competition, the first year the event was held, and he has been a finalist for and/or won best publication awards at major robotics conferences and journals in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. His primary research interests are in micro and nanorobotics with an emphasis on applications in biology and biomedicine.