A TATRC-West/SUMMIT Workshop

Jan. 25, 2005 in Long Beach, CA

SUMMIT is a center in the School of Medicine dedicated to putting Stanford University at the forefront of medical and life-sciences education through the innovative use of information technology.

E-mail: simworkshop@stanford.edu

Workshop Sponsor

TATRC The Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)

TATRC is charged with managing core Research Development Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) and congressionally mandated projects in telemedicine and advanced medical technologies.

Gaming and Simulations Based Learning: Applications for Medicine

Speaker:

David Gaba, MD, PhD
Stanford University

David Gaba received a BS in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University, an MD from Yale University, and completed a residency in anesthesiology at Stanford. He is a professor of anesthesia at the Stanford School of Medicine, a fellow at CHP/PCOR, and Associate Dean of Immersive and Simulation-based Learning. Dr. Gaba is a founder of realistic patient simulation and the creator of Anesthesia Crisis Resource Management, a training method used worldwide. He developed and has managed the Patient Safety Center of Inquiry at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System since the mid 1980's, a Center that has been modeled by institutions around the World. Dr. Gaba is interested in a wide variety
of topics related to patient safety, including high-fidelity patient
simulation; the effects of fatigue on clinicians' performance; and
organizational learning through adverse-event reporting and analysis.