Ramin Shahidi , PhD

Director, Image Guidance Laboratories
Department of Neurosurgery
Stanford, CA

Ramin Shahidi, PhD, is director of the Image Guidance Laboratories (IGL) in Stanford's department of neurosurgery. From 1995 to 1996, he worked as an imaging scientist, and later became the manager of medical programs at Vital Images Inc. Shahidi's primary research interests involve the utilization of concepts such as real-time volume rendering of medical images, robotic-surgery, deformable models (in order to predict tissue movement during surgery), virtual user interfaces for surgeons, and deploying software for interfacing artificial intelligence machinery to the modern operating room's instrumentation; (such as ultrasound machines, endoscopes, surgical microscopes and stereotactic units. Dr. Shahidi's ultimate goal is to make surgical procedures safer and less invasive. By bridging the gap between engineering research concepts and the medical sciences, he hopes to develop novel ideas, which, in turn, result in advances in health care.