THE SATAVA AWARD
The 15th annual Satava Award will be presented at MMVR17. Established in 1995 to acknowledge the contribution of Richard M. Satava MD FACS, the award is presented to an individual or research group demonstrating unique vision and commitment to the improvement of medicine through advanced technology.
The 14th annual Satava Award was presented on January 31, 2008, to Alan Liu PhD and Mark Bowyer MD of the National Capital Area Medical Simulation Center, Uniformed Services University. They were acknowledged “for innovative and visionary efforts to develop, incorporate, and validate the use of simulators for medical education.”
Dr Kirby Vosburgh presenting the Satava Award to Mark Bowyer and Alan Liu
Mark giving his acceptance speech
Mark and Alan with Rick Satava
Past Satava Award recipients are:
- Richard M. Satava MD FACS (1995)
- Michael J. Ackerman PhD & Victor M. Spitzer PhD, for the Visible Human Project (1996)
- Henry Fuchs PhD (1997)
- Gerhard F. Buess MD (1998)
- Faina Shtern MD (1999)
- Dave Warner MD PhD (2000)
- Human Interface Technology Lab (HIT Lab), University of Washington (2001)
- Stanford University Medical Media & Information Technologies (SUMMIT) (2002)
- Richard A. Robb PhD (2003)
- Steven L. Dawson MD (2004)
- Brenda K. Wiederhold PhD MBA BCIA (2005)
- Nigel W. John PhD (2006)
- Naoki Suzuki PhD (2007)