MICCAI 2022 Daily – Monday

24 DAILY MICCAI Monday Women in Science Manila Friends Barcelona. Barcelona? You’re Catalan? Yes. [ she smiles ] Okay, we’ve featured a few Catalans. We had Laura Leal- Taixé. I’ve heard of her. Why are you in the UK? I did my first degree in Spain and then my second degree in France. When I was at Philips, they were collaborating with King’s College as a PhD and told me, if you want, you can go there. That’s how I ended up in the UK. How nice, and you like it? Yes, a lot. Tell us one special thing about Spain, one about France, and one about the UK. Well, I’m from Barcelona, so the beach, definitely! [ she laughs ] From France, I like the culture and the ambiance. I think it’s really good. London, I don’t know, I fell in love with London when I moved, so everything! [ laughs ] Have you had a winter in London? Oh, yeah, I have. And you still like it? [ Esther laughs ] Yes! That’s very nice. You are a special Catalan! Yes, I know! How is the university? It’s really good. I like everything about it. It’s a really good community, and we work very closely together. Also, I like the way the department is structured because we’re based in a hospital, so we have access to clinical data. That reminds me of something Nassir Navab told me a few years ago. He wants his team to be in regular contact with doctors so that the solutions they develop are very well anchored to the real world. Exactly. That’s exactly what I would like too, this very close relationship between doctors and engineers. You do something that they want, and they do something for you. What is the thing that surprised you the most from your contact with real doctors? Sometimes it’s hard communicating. It’s not the language itself, it’s that we see things from different angles.