Programme
20th November, 2021 (Saturday)
*Programme information is subject to changes
Conference Halls 4-5 Conference Halls 6-7
9:30 – 10:45 Summit Opening (Live Broadcast)
Summit Opening
Opening Plenary Lecture
EMedIC Global Awards Presentation
(Finalist)
Opening Plenary Lecture
Chair: Samuel AU / Philip CHIU
Chow Yuk Ho Lecture: A Thirty-Year Perspective on Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Interventional Systems
Russell TAYLOR
EMedIC Global Awards Presentation (Finalist)

10:45 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 12:30 Parallel Thematic Sessions 1
Biomedical Innovations - From Research to Clinical
Chair: Samuel AU / Raymond TONG
Nanomedicine & Biosensing
Chair: Aaron HO / Li ZHANG
Data as the New Biomarker—Advances in Cardiovascular Digital Health
Steve PHAM
Skin-Interfaced Wearable Sweat Biosensors
Wei GAO
The Road to the Patient Specific Airway Stent Using 3D Printing
Thomas GILDEA
A Magnetically Controlled Guidewire Microrobot for the Fast and Precise Treatment of Vascular Diseases
Hongsoo CHOI
New Horizons: An Operating Perspective in the rise of MedTech
Alan AU
Organelle-mimicking Droplets for Biomedical Applications
Anderson SHUM
Translating Digital Health Technologies from Bench to Bedside: Opportunities in Hong Kong
John KAO
Alkyl-Terminated Gold Nanoparticles as a Self-Therapeutic Treatment for Psoriasis
Jonathan CHOI
Panel Discussion Panel Discussion

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:40 Plenary Lecture
Chair: Y H LIU / Joseph SUNG / Jeremy TEOH
(Live Broadcast)
Plenary Lecture
State-of-Art Robotics in Surgery: an ‘Imperial’ Perspective
Ferdinando RODRIGUEZ Y BAENA
Panel Discussion

14:40 – 14:55 Break

14:55 – 16:25 Parallel Thematic Sessions 2
Medical Robotics
Chair: Ka-Wai KWOK / Zheng LI
Biomedical Imaging & AI
Chair: Jason CHAN / Yeung YAM
Development and Application of Transoral Robotic Surgery in Japan
Ichiro TATEYA
Deep Learning, Computer Vision in Thyroid Surgery
Chris HOLSINGER
Training Surgeons on the da Vinci SP Robotic System, and Exploring New Applications
Ryan LI
AI-enabled Population Health Imaging
Varut VARDHANABHUTI
High-performance Mechanical Transmission - A Way Out for New Generation of Minimal Invasive Surgical Devices
Ka-Wai KWOK
The Role of AI for Next-generation Robotic Surgery
Qi DOU
Robotic Bronchoscopy
Calvin NG
Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion