Medical Augmented Reality Summer School 2025

International Summer School

Medical Augmented Reality Summer School 2025

From August 11th to 20th, 2025, the 5th edition of the Medical Augmented Reality Summer School will be held at Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland, again bringing together the world's experts in Medical AR, clinicians, companies and talented academic researchers from all around the world, foster cooperation, and push the boundaries of Medical Augmented Reality.

The focus of this year's summer school will be the connection of Medical AR and Surgical Data Science. MARSS25 will be organized for the first time by a consortium of scientists and clinicians from three institutions:

  • Prof. Dr. Philipp Fürnstahl and Prof. Mazda Farshad, MD, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland,
  • Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany, and
  • Prof. Dr. Marc Pollefeys, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland,

    • which are among the leading centers for cutting-edge research in Medical Augmented Reality, Computer Vision, and Computer Assisted Surgery.

    In the MARSS25 hackathon, interdisciplinary teams consisting of participants from research, industry, and clinic will develop novel Medical Augmented Reality systems, supported by experienced surgeons and AR experts. For MARSS25 and the MARSS25 hackathon, we will have access to our translational center for surgery, the OR-X, a highly technological equipped research and training infrastructure where surgical innovation and education can happen without patient burden.

    For medical professionals, we will for the first time offer a hands-on course at OR-X in parallel to the technical program that includes the training of surgical techniques using cutting-edge computer assisted surgery systems. The medical hands-on course will comply with official medical course requirements.

    More details regarding course registration will be uploaded soon!

    This event is endorsed by the MICCAI society and covered by the MICCAI Code of Conduct.

    Impressions from MARSS23

    Tentative Agenda MARSS25

    Time Monday 11th Tuesday 12th Wednesday 13th Thursday 14th Friday 15th
    09:00 - 10:00 Welcome &
    Instructions    		 Keynote TBD Keynote TBD Keynote TBD Keynote TBD
    10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
    10:30 - 11:30 Keynote TBD Lecture TBD
    Medical hands-on OR-X    		 Keynote TBD
    Medical hands-on OR-X    		 Live surgery
    Endoscopy    		 Keynote
    TBD
    11:30 - 12:30 Lecture TBD Lecture TBD
    Medical hands-on OR-X    		 Lecture TBD
    Medical hands-on OR-X    		 Live surgery
    Endoscopy    		 Industry Demos
    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break
    14:00 - 15:00 Lecture TBD
    Medical hands-on OR-X prep    		 Lecture TBD
    Medical hands-on OR-X    		 Lecture TBD
    Medical hands-on OR-X    		 Keynote TBD Panel Discussion
    15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
    15:30 - 17:00 Live surgery
    Open Surgery    		 Keynote TBD Hackathon
    Kickoff    		 Hackathon Hackathon
    17:00 - 18:30 Hackathon
    Brainstorming    		 Hackathon
    Brainstorming    		 Hackathon Hackathon Hackathon
    Evening Program - Pizza Night - Conference Dinner -


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    Time Monday 18th Tuesday 19th Wednesday 20th
    09:00 - 10:00 Keynote TBD Keynote TBD Hackathon
    10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
    10:30 - 11:30 Keynote TBD Keynote TBD Hackathon
    11:30 - 12:30 Surgineering Course Hackathon Hackathon
    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break
    14:00 - 15:00 Surgineering Course Hackathon Demo Day
    15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
    15:30 - 17:00 Hackathon Hackathon Demo Day
    17:00 - 18:30 Hackathon Hackathon Demo Day
    Evening Program - - -

    Keynote Speakers

    Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab

    Head of the Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, Department of Computer Science, TU Munich

    Prof. Dr. Philipp Fürnstahl

    Professor in Orthopedic Computer Science
    Head of ROCS (Research in Orthopedic Computer Science), Balgrist, University Hospital, University of Zurich.

    Prof. Dr. Marc Pollefeys

    Director Mixed Reality and AI Lab at Microsoft and Full Professor in the Institute for Visual Computing of the Dept. of Computer Science, ETH Zürich

    Prof. Mazda Farshad, MD, MPH

    Medical Director at Balgrist Hospital
    Professor for Orthopedics at Universität Zürich

    Prof. Sandrine De Ribaupierre, MD

    Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

    Prof. Dr. Roy Eagleson

    Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Western Ontario, Associate Scientist at the Robarts Research Institute, Scientist and Principal Investigator at CSTAR, Canada

    Industry Partners

    TBD