Keynote Speakers

Dr. Udunna Anazodo

Assistant Professor, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada

Dr. Udunna Anazodo is a William Dawson Scholar and Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Dr Anazodo is the Director of the Multimodal Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disease (MiND) Lab at the MNI, where her group develops imaging analysis methods for quantitative neuroimaging. She is the Chair of the Consortium for Advancement of MRI Education and Research in Africa (CAMERA), a global network of imaging experts working to establish sustainable access to MRI in Africa through local capacity building. She is also the Scientific Director of the Medical Artificial intelligence (MAI) Lab at Crestview Radiology Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria, Africa’s first machine learning lab dedicated to training, development and implementation of AI applications in medical imaging. Through MiND Lab, MAI Lab, and CAMERA, she is leading several medical imaging and machine learning initiatives across Africa, including the MICCAI Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Africa Challenge and the Sprint AI Training for African Medical Imaging Knowledge Translation (SPARK) Academy.

Dr. Ehsan Adeli

Assistant Professor, Stanford, USA Dr. Adeli, Director of Translational AI Research, develops AI algorithms to address healthcare and neuroscience challenges. He bridges human actions and brain function through MRI analysis, pioneering explainable machine learning to uncover neurodegenerative diseases’ roots, integrating digital human modeling with neuroscience for deeper clinical insights.

Previous Keynote Speakers

2023 - Neda Jahanshad || Catie Chang
2022 - Marius de Groot || Thomas Yeo
2021 - Adrian Dalca || Paul Thompson
2020 - Duygu Tosun-Turgut || Jorge Cardoso
2019 - Yong Fan || Pamela Douglas
2018 - Christos Davatzikos || Gael Varoquaux || George Langs