The poster, of which Sue Sue was the second author, received Second Place Poster Award at CARS 2012: J. Fritz, P. U-Thainual, I. Iordachita, J. Carrino, A. Flammang, T. Ungi, G. Fichtinger, Augmented reality visualization using image-overlay for MR-guided interventions: performance assessment of paravertebral sympathetic perineural injections in cadavers at 1.5 tesla.

Tamas Ungi, MD, PhD, senior researcher in the Perk Lab received Honorable Mention for the School of Computing Distinguished Service Award. 

Although as of yet he does not hold a faculty appointment, Tamas has de facto mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students. In this role, he has been vitally important to the Biomedical Computing Group. The quality of the mentorship Tamas provides is demonstrated the most tangibly in the volume and prestige of peer-reviewed publications authored and co-authored by his trainees.

Mattea Welch  received the Undergrad Student Research Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.  Mattea  has been apprenticing in Perk Lab as undergraduate course student and researcher. Mattea has participated in work with the PerkTutor and contributed to a journal article in review and a conference paper as a co-author. This summer she will develop surgical performance scoring approaches for spinal needle insertion training.

Eric Moult received his third Undergrad Student Research Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. It is common wisdom that a student can receive this award only once. Eric is on his third now. I wonder if there will be a number four :-)