MICCAI 2022 Daily – Monday

What is one thing you need to learn from HeartFlow that you don’t know yet? This is a medical company and I’ve been mainly working in academia. It’s very different. I would like to understand what the steps are to get from an idea to a product. How do you then sell it? Maybe one day I’ll want to do it for myself, create something like a company, and I think it’s important to understand every single step. How do you go from A to B, and what are the challenges and opportunities? Do you think one day you’ll be brave enough to launch an idea of your own? That would be a good day. A good dream, yeah. Are you not afraid? Yeah, but you need to be brave in life, right? [ she laughs ] Of course, tough ladies need to be brave. Exactly. Can you also envisage that something could go wrong, and you’d have to start over again? Yes, exactly. But I guess if you have a strong background and experience, you can always go back to either industry or academia. You’ve got to try it at least. It sounds like you feel lucky that you had what you had. Yes, very lucky. From being given the opportunity to go to France to do the second degree and then, at that time, them contributing towards King’s College for a PhD. I work very hard, but I also feel like I’ve been very lucky in the sense of the opportunities I’ve been given and the people who’ve supported me. I have good background support from my supervisors and everyone at King’s that allows me to grow and become a better researcher. Who are your supervisors? Andrew King is the technical one, and Reza Razavi is the clinical one. Of all the incredible things you’ve done to get to where you are, what was the biggest difficulty you had to overcome? I think it was the step of trying to make what I was working on work in a clinical setting and all the challenges, from getting the data from the back systems to applying it to make something the clinicians wanted to use. That was the most challenging. 26 DAILY MICCAI Monday Women in Science Stanford Friends