Committees&Organizers
Prof. Chengli Song
SMIT 2014 President and Conference chair
Executive Director & Deputy Dean
Shanghai Institute for Minimally Invasive Therapy
School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
Dr.William Meng
SMIT 2014 Conference Co-chair
Consultant In-Charge, Department of Surgery
Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre
Director of Surgical Endoscopy
Our Lady of Maryknoll Hospital, Hongkong, China
Local Organising Committee - SMIT 2014
Prof. Baolin Liu
SMIT 2014 local chair
Director, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
Prof. Yunzhang Cheng
SMIT 2014 local Co-chair
Deputy Director, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
International Steering Committee
Alberto Arezzo - Università di Torino, Italy
Kevin Cleary- The Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, USA
Jenny Dankelman- The Minimally Invasive Surgery and Interventional Techniques group, The Netherlands
Nicola Di Lorenzo- Universitá Tor Vergata – Italy
Harald Fisher- Creamedix GmbH ,Germany
Joris EN Jaspers - UMC Utrecht , the Netherlands
Eiji Kanehira - Ageo Central Hospital ,Japan
Joachim Kettenbach - Oberpullendorf , Austria
Gernot Kronreif - Austrian Center for Medical Innovation and Technology, Austria
Thomas Langø - SINTEF Health Research ,Norway
Andreas Melzer - The Universities Dundee and St Andrews, UK
William Meng - Our Lady of Maryknoll Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Yoav Mintz - Hadassah Medical Organization ,Israel
Toril Nagelhus Hernes - SINTEF Health Research , Norway
Richard Satava - University of Washington Medical Center , USA
Marc Schurr - Germany
Uwe Spetzger - Germany
Amir Szold –The Surgical Group Practice, Israel
Calin Tiu - Medis Camp SRL, Romania
Daniel Wendt - Germany
Paul Wetter - Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, USA
Byrnjulf Ystgaard - Trondheim University, University Hospital RiT, Norway
Senior Member Advisory Board
John Abele - USA
Erik Fosse – Norway
Kees Grimbergen - the Netherlands
Enric Laporte - Spain
Alan Lomax - Canada
Lieselotte Mettler - Germany
Earl Owen - Australia
John Wickham - UK