Dr. Ron Kikinis

Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School Founding Director, Surgical Planning Laboratory, Vice-Chair for Biomedical Informatics Research, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Background and Position

Prof. Dr. Ron Kikinis is the founding Director of the Surgical Planning Laboratory and the Robert Greenes Distinguished Director of Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA. As of March, 2020, he has also been appointed the B. Leonard Holman Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. Furthermore, he is the former Institute Director of Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS in Bremen and a former Professor of Medical Image Computing at the University of Bremen. His research activities include technological research (segmentation, registration, visualization, high performance computing), software system development, and biomedical research in a variety of biomedical specialties.