Talk:Ron Kikinis

COI edit request from the article subject

Disclosure: I am Ron Kikinis, the subject of this article. In line with WP:COI I am not editing the article directly and am instead requesting the changes below for review by an uninvolved editor. Sources are provided; where I have been unable to locate a suitable published source, I have flagged it rather than leaving the claim unsupported. Thank you for your time. Rkikinis (talk) 18:50, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

A. Corrections (factual/grammar — no new content)

1. In the lead/education paragraph, change "trained as a both a physician" to "trained as both a physician".

2. In the paragraph on the Fraunhofer MEVIS / Bremen role, change "he was served as" to "he served as".

3. In the final paragraph, change "author or co-author of more than of over 424 peer-reviewed articles" to "author or co-author of more than 424 peer-reviewed articles".

4. In the 2020-appointment sentence, remove the stray closing quotation mark and period that currently appear after "Vice-Chair for Biomedical Informatics Research".

B. Current status (page is stale post-2020)

5. The article presents "Vice-Chair for Biomedical Informatics Research" as an open-ended current role. This role ran from 2020 to 2025 and has concluded; please put it in the past tense. The B. Leonard Holman Professorship, held since 2020, remains current and should stay in the present tense.

6. Please update the research/current-activity description to reflect work since 2020. Suggested addition:

"Since 2019 Kikinis has been principal investigator of the Imaging Data Commons (IDC), a cloud-based repository of cancer imaging data developed as part of the U.S. National Cancer Institute's Cancer Research Data Commons, and a multiple-principal investigator (with Gordon Harris) of a National Cancer Institute–funded lymph node quantification project for multi-site clinical trials. In 2026 he became contact principal investigator (with Andriy Fedorov, Tina Kapur, and Steven Pieper) of a five-year National Cancer Institute grant supporting 3D Slicer as a unified open-source platform for advanced cancer imaging research."

Source notes:

— IDC: recommend citing the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons / Imaging Data Commons project page (independent).

— LNQ: NIH RePORTER, grant R01CA235589.

— 3D Slicer cancer-imaging grant (R01CA310962): new NCI award (federal award date 19 June 2026; project period 2026–2031). Public listing on USAspending.gov: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01CA310962_075 (it will also appear in HHS TAGGS and, later, NIH RePORTER). Suggested citation: {{cite web |url=https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01CA310962_075 |title=Award R01CA310962 – 3D Slicer: A unified open-source platform for advanced cancer imaging research |publisher=USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |access-date=2026-07-28}}. Do not cite the Notice of Award, which is a private primary document.

C. Metrics (tighten the vague figures)

7. The article says "H-index well over 100" and "cited over 100,000 times." These can be made precise, and citation metrics should always be dated because they change over time. Suggested replacement:

"Kikinis is the author or co-author of more than 424 peer-reviewed articles. According to his Surgical Planning Laboratory profile, as of October 2025 his publications had a mean Relative Citation Ratio of 3.26 and an h-index of 152 (per Google Scholar)."

Source: Surgical Planning Laboratory profile (below); metrics are stated there as of October 2025. Please retain the existing Google Scholar external link.

D. New section: Awards and honors

8. Please add a section "Awards and honors" with the following. Every entry now carries an independent published source (refs included). Note that the 2003 Computerworld Honors award was conferred on the Surgical Planning Laboratory (an institutional award), not on Kikinis personally, and is framed accordingly below.

• 2003 – 21st Century Achievement Award, Medicine category, Computerworld Honors Program — conferred on the Surgical Planning Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital (which Kikinis founded and directs) for its "3-D Surgical Planning Visualization" project. Source note: this was an institutional award to the laboratory for the named project; the source does not name Kikinis individually, so it should be described as an award to the SPL rather than a personal honor.
• 2009 – MICCAI Enduring Impact Award (inaugural recipient).
• 2009 – Fellow, MICCAI Society (elected in the inaugural class of Fellows).
• 2013 – Distinguished Investigator Award, The Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research (then Academy of Radiology Research).
• 2013 – Honorary Member (Ehrenmitglied), German Society for Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery (CURAC). Source note: the CURAC page confirms current honorary membership; the year (2013) and "inaugural" status are from the CV and are not stated on that page.
• 2019 – Fellow, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).
• 2019 – A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award, Harvard Medical School. Source note: recipient listed in the page's "Past Recipients" (2019) section.
• 2023 – Achievement Award (功績賞), Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology (JAMIT), co-received with Yoshinobu Sato, Shin Nakajima, Carl-Fredrik Westin, and Nobuyuki Shiraga, for "Establishment of methods for multiscale local structure analysis in 3D medical images." Note: this is a jointly conferred award — Kikinis is one of five co-recipients — and should be described as shared, not sole. Confirmed via JAMIT's official recipient list; conferred at JAMIT2023 (Osaka, July 2023). A separate 2024 invited lecture in Kagoshima was at the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (JSMBE), a different organization, and is not this award.
• 2026 – International Excellence Award of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), awarded together with the Fellowship of the SCHROFF Foundation.

E. Infobox / early life (requires the subject's decision + a source)

9. If an infobox and birth details are desired, the data would need an independent reliable source; my CV does not establish a citable birth date. I leave to the reviewer's discretion whether existing sources support this. I am not requesting a "Personal life" section at this time.

Sources referenced above

• Surgical Planning Laboratory — Ron Kikinis, MD: https://spl.harvard.edu/people/ron-kikinis (publication count, RCR, h-index as of 10/2025)
• Computerworld's 2003 21st Century Achievement Award winners: https://www.computerworld.com/article/1726457/computerworld-s-2003-21st-century-achievement-award-winners.html
• USAspending.gov — federal award R01CA310962 (3D Slicer cancer-imaging grant): https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01CA310962_075
• Harvard Catalyst Profiles (official HMS): https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/17683 (appointments, current title)
• MICCAI Enduring Impact Award list: http://www.miccai.org/about-miccai/awards/enduring-impact-award/
• MICCAI 2009 List of Fellows: https://www.miccai.org/2009-list-fellows
• ISMRM 2019 Fellows of the Society: https://www.ismrm.org/19m/fellows/
• JAMIT Achievement Award (功績賞) recipient list: http://www.jamit.jp/outline/history/kousekisho-list.html
• HMS Excellence in Mentoring Awards (A. Clifford Barger Award): https://occe.hms.harvard.edu/awards/excellence-mentoring-awards
• Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research — 2013 Distinguished Investigators: https://www.acadrad.org/2013-distinguished-investigators/
• CURAC Society — Honorary Members: https://curac.org/en/curac-gesellschaft/
• KIT press release 007/2026 (International Excellence Award): https://www.kit.edu/kit/english/pi_2026_007_radiologist-ron-kikinis-receives-2026-international-excellence-award-of-kit.php

References

Rkikinis (talk) 18:50, 28 July 2026 (UTC)