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.
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Gaming and Simulations Based Learning: Applications for Medicine
Speaker:
Wm. LeRoy Heinrichs, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Heinrichs’ earned his MD degree with Honors in his native state
of Oklahoma, completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wayne
State University, Detroit MI, and earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry
at the University of Oregon Health Sciences campus. His first academic
position was at the University of Washington.
In 1976, Dr. Heinrichs was appointed Professor and Chairman of
Gynecology and Obstetrics at Stanford University where he performed and
taught laparoscopic surgery, and recognized the potential for teaching
this type of surgery with Virtual Reality systems, like those used by
the aviation industry in training pilots. Finding no emerging technologies,
he began a start-up company that failed, but retired to SUMMIT where
he developed an anatomically correct, human 3D model (Lucy v.2.6) as
the virtual anatomy in pelvic surgical simulators. Dr. Heinrichs also
initiated a project with Immersion, Inc. for developing a hysteroscopy
trainer, now a commercially available trainer. At SUMMIT, where he is
now Associate Director, he and colleagues are developing anatomy and
surgical simulation projects for distribution over the Next Generation
Internet (NGI). His designation, along with SUMMIT, in 2002 for the 8th
Annual Satava Award by the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality organization
was for his leadership in the field of surgical simulation. He is PI
on a Wallenberg Foundation planning grant designing a 3D World for training
of medical teams for crisis management of trauma. Dr. Heinrichs writes
on Surgical Simulation and lectures widely on this topic.
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