Workshop 2
ARISE IV 2026
WORKSHOP #2
GUIDING THE AGENCIES FOR AI AND ROBOTIC IMPLEMENTATION
Location: Metropolitan Ballroom
MODERATORS
Vitor Pereira, University of Toronto and St. Michael’s Hospital, Canada
Aquilla Turk, University of South Carolina, USA
Athos Patsalides, North Shore University Hospital, NY
WORKSHOP OUTLINE
Should we model after BCI or other areas that have already formed standards? ISO/IEC?
1 What need does Robotic guided intervention address?
- Neurovascular Disease? Ischemic Stroke is unmet clinical need.
- FDA perspective? Safety and Risk-Benefit
- Physician perspective? Balance elective/call cases, call burden, decreased radiation exposure
- Hospital perspective? Provide emergency coverage throughout a system with focused workforce. Decreased cost.
2 Design Considerations for Robotic Systems
- Time to set up/tear down robot and tools
- Usability of System – Cognitive unloading of operator
- Procedure workflow
- Audio/Visual interaction
- Fluiditics – Saline, contrast, aspiration
- Feedback – Visual, haptic, force, etc.
- Autonomous use or assistance
- Remote specifications – Latency, data security, redundancy, etc. (warning system for inadequate connection)
3 Training and Simulation
- Standardize training program – MD/Tech/Nurse, technique/device dependent
- Skill maintenance program
- Complication management
- Flow models
- Virtual models
4 Local, Interstate and International regulatory and licensing
- Credentialing
- Licensure
- Legal liability – MD, Hospital, Robot maker, Device maker, Connection provider?
- Procedural and Professional reimbursement
- Requirement for neurosurgical coverage in case of a bleed etc.
5 Key Performance Indicators
- Emergency – Time, safety, effectiveness
- Elective – Safety, effectiveness, time
6 AI integration into NES procedures
- Interface with EMR – track and document procedure, devices, metrics, etc.
- Assist with procedure – catheter tracking, wire tacking , embolic deployment, etc.
- AI-assisted image overlay/fusion software
PARTICIPANTS
- Elkia Arens – Navigantis
- Adam Arthur – Medtronic Neurovascular
- Ben Barnes – MicroPort
- Hatice Bilgic Lim – Philips
- Thomas Booth – King’s Collage London
- Francesca Bosetti – NIH
- Jamie Brannigan – Synchron
- Briste Briste – Synchron
- Claudette Brooks – FDA
- Steve Burion – Telos Health
- DJ Cass – CereVasc
- Anirudh Chaturvedi – Stryker
- Adi Costa – Sightendo
- Michael Coyne – Mentice
- Christian Cuzick – J&J MedTech Neurovascular
- Mor Dayan – Navigantis
- Aimee DeGaetano – Eastern Virginia Medical School
- Emir Deljkich – Imperative Care
- Rohan Desai – Stryker
- Johanna T. Fifi – Mount Sinai Health System
- Mark Fisher – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston/ Harvard Medical School
- Eli Gelman – V-flow
- Matthew Gounis – UMass Chan Medical School
- Marianne Grundwaldt – Neurofine Corpoation
- Peter Kan – The University of Texas Medical Branch
- Kenichi Kono – Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital
- Chris Lear – Prometheus Therapeutics, Inc
- Kate Lederer – Telos Health
- Dan Levangie – CereVasc
- Zhijie Liao – FDA
- Christopher Loftus – FDA
- Demetrius Lopes – Advocate Aurora Health
- Cheung Manchi – Terumo Neuro
- Charles Matouk – Yale University
- Amy McManys – Scientia Vascular
- Kerstin Mueller – Siemens Healthineers
- Liam Mullins – Perfuze
- Naira Muradyan – FDA
- Kimberlie O’Connell – Spryte Medical
- Andrian Parker – Vastrax
- Amy Paschane – FDA
- Athos Patsalides – North Shore University Hospital
- Mark Paul – University of Utah
- Carlos Pena – Jacobs Institute
- Eric Peterson – Miller School of Medicine
- Rob Pierce – Siemens Healthineers
- Michael Quach – Medtronic
- Ansaar Rai – Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, Morgantown, WV
- Chiaki Sakai – Kyoto University
- Nobuyuki Sakai – Seijinkai Shimizu Hospital
- Sharma Sanjay – Terumo Neuro
- Luis Savastano – University of California
- Clemens Schirmer – Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Scranton
- Magdy Selim – Harvard Medical School
- Da Shi – FDA
- Samuel Shimp – J&J MedTech Neurovascular
- Sapna Singh – Terumo Neuro
- Amy Smith – Medtronic
- Gabriela Suarez-Mier – FDA
- Satoshi Tateshima – UCLA Health Westwood Imaging Center & Interventional Radiology Clinic
- Stavropoula Tjoumakaris – Thomas Jefferson University
- York Tomita – FDA
- Liyue Tong – FDA
- Michael Tracey – J&J MedTech Neurovascular
- Christian Ullfert – J&J MedTech Neurovascular
- Max van Apeldoorn – Philips
- Dhanya Williams – FDA
- Dileep Yavagal – University of Miami School of Medicine