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. Islem Rekik

Associate Professor, Imperial College London, UK

Dr. Islem Rekik is the Director of the Brain And SIgnal Research and Analysis (BASIRA) laboratory (http://basira-lab.com/) and an Associate Professor at Imperial College London (Innovation Hub I-X). Together with BASIRA members, she conducted more than 90 cutting-edge research projects cross-pollinating AI and healthcare —with a sharp focus on brain imaging and neuroscience. She is also a co/chair/organizer of more than 25 international first-class conferences/workshops/competitions (e.g., Affordable AI 2021-22, Predictive AI 2018-2024, Machine Learning in Medical Imaging 2021-24, WILL competition 2021-23). In addition to her 150+ high-impact publications, she is a strong advocate of equity, inclusiveness and diversity in research. She is the former president of the Women in MICCAI (WiM) and the co-founder of the international RISE Network to Reinforce Inclusiveness & diverSity and Empower minority researchers in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMIC).

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