MedReason 2026 Workshop Agenda
Final onsite programme for the MedReason Challenge & Workshop at MICCAI 2026.
Keynote Speaker
Jiazhen Pan
Research Fellow, Stanford University & Technical University of Munich
Jiazhen Pan works on AI agents in medicine, healthcare benchmarks, auditable AI, and medical imaging. His research examines how medical AI systems can move from benchmark performance toward reliable, clinically grounded use.
The talk will examine the gap between rapid progress in medical AI agents and dependable clinical deployment, with emphasis on rigorous evaluation, auditing, and workflow-level reliability.
Speaker profile →Workshop schedule
Challenge presentations are scheduled as 10 minutes of presentation + 2 minutes of Q&A per team, with short transitions between presentation slots.
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Keynote Talk — Jiazhen Pan
Stanford University
Keynote Q&A
Medical Visual Question Answering with Length-Prior Arbitration and Reward-Aligned GRPO
Presenter: Param Dave
MIRA: Modality-Adaptive Image-Grounded Reasoning and Answering for Medical Visual Question Answering under Domain Shift
Presenter: Adinath Madhavrao Dukre
Candidate-Expanding Routing with Permutation-Stabilized Experts for Mixed-Format Medical VQA
Presenter: Hai-Dang Nguyen
CLINIC-VQA: Reasoning-Aware MLLM with Explicit Clinical Reasoning Traces
Presenter: Satoshi Kondo