Michael Crawford | VR in Healthcare | Lifetime Achievement in Virtual Reality Award

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Prof. Michael Crawford | VR in Healthcare | Lifetime Achievement in Virtual Reality Award 

Imperial College, London | United Kingdom

Michael Angus Crawford, BSc (Edinburgh), PhD (London University), FRSB, FRSC, FRCPath, is a distinguished British scientist and academic specializing in brain chemistry, human nutrition, and clinical pathology. He is the founder of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition and a founder trustee of both the William Little Foundation and the Mother and Child Foundation, reflecting his long-standing commitment to advancing medical research and public health. In addition, he serves as President of the McCarrison Society, promoting scientific inquiry in nutrition and health. Educated at Fort Augustus School in Inverness-shire, where he excelled in sports leadership as Captain of Cricket and Rugby, he earned his BSc in Chemistry from Edinburgh University in 1952, followed by a PhD in Chemical Pathology from the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith, University of London in 1960, including a Diploma in Clinical Pathology. His professional recognition includes Fellowships of the Institute of Biology (1988), the Royal College of Pathologists (1994), and the Royal Society of Chemistry (2020), along with certification in Good Clinical Practice (2019) at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, NHS. He holds an academic position at Imperial College London within the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Obstetrics and Gynecology, based at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Michael Crawford has a rich personal history, including two marriages—first to Sheilagh Inglis, with whom he had four children (two adopted), and later to Mandy Walton. He resides in Primrose Hill, London, and maintains active professional correspondence through his email and Imperial College profile, also listed on ORCID (0000-0002-8770-753X). Throughout his career, Crawford has combined scientific rigor with leadership in research, education, and public service, making significant contributions to the understanding of human nutrition, metabolism, and clinical pathology.

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Ms. Hamraz Javaheri | VR in Healthcare | Women in VR Research Award 

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) | Germany

Hamraz Javaheri is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany, and a researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), with a strong interdisciplinary background in computer science, electrical and computer engineering, and human-centered augmented reality systems. His research focuses on wearable and mixed reality, human–computer interaction, and AI-assisted systems, particularly in high-stakes domains such as surgery, medical training, education, and skill acquisition. He holds an M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and a B.Sc. in Electronic and Communication Engineering from Yildiz Technical University, and he gained international experience through the European Union Student Exchange Program at Aalto University, Finland. Since 2016, he has contributed to multiple research projects at DFKI and the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, spanning embedded intelligence, augmented vision, and educational technologies. His work has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including an Honorable Mention Paper Award at ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2025, a Best Demo Award at UbiComp/ISWC 2024, and the Young Talent Award from the Saarland Association of Surgeons in 2025. He has published extensively in leading journals such as the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, JMIR XR and Spatial Computing, Annals of Surgery Open, Scientific Reports, and Surgical Endoscopy, as well as top-tier conferences including CHI, DIS, ISMAR, VRST, UbiComp, and ISWC, often emphasizing real-world deployment and clinical validation of augmented reality systems. His research has also received international media coverage from outlets such as DW News, ARD, and Saarbrücker Zeitung.

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