Valdastri wins Best Paper Award at the 16th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery (ISCAS)
Pietro Valdastri, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and member of the Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering (ViSE), was awarded with the OLYMPUS ISCAS Best Paper Award at the 16th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery (ISCAS) June 30 in Pisa, Italy.
The paper – “Remote active magnetic actuation for a single-access surgical robotic manipulator” – by Christian Di Natali, a mechanical engineering graduate student, and Pietro Valdastri, was presented by Valdastri at the conference.