MICCAI 2022 Daily – Tuesday

Yeah, I could imagine that because it's also both the software part and speaking to patients and doctors. But it's difficult sometimes to give bad news to the patient, to say, “ I found something . ” Yeah, but that's the clinician not the technician. Any funny thing that happened to you during this extraordinary career in medical imaging? Maybe when I found out the fun fact that there are companies in Germany specifically working on breaking bones for research. I didn't know that existed. They do bone breaking for a living which is, on the one hand, a bit creepy, but on the other hand, there will always be PhD students desperately needing broken bones. Not bones of living people? No, donated bodies. Okay, so these companies break bones in order for people like you to be able to work. Yes. So when we perform studies for my PhD or the PhD of my colleague, we go there. And break the bones? No, we never broke them. [ laughs ] If I gave you a bone, would you like to break it? I will leave it to the professionals. To the professional bone breakers. Tell me one thing that you would like to change in order to make it easier for talented people like you to succeed in the field. Maybe sometimes there is a huge pressure on PhD students that they need to publish. They need to succeed. So it's not about you having a nice idea and then publishing it. It's about the deadlines, and then you work towards deadlines and not towards ideas first sometimes. I think that puts a lot of pressure, and I think that could be changed, but therefore the whole culture would need to be changed. Can you imagine academia less competitive than it is? As being a community that encouraged better performance but without being as competitive as it is now? Yeah, but therefore it needs more money. And who will give the money? Maybe the government. The government. Or the industry … 22 DAILY MICCAI Tuesday Women in Science