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:

Michael J Mastrangelo Jr M.D.

Dr. Mastrangelo is a private practitioner of General Surgery in Bend, OR. He formerly was an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Director of the Minimally Invasive Donor Nephrectomy Program at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center in Lexingtom, KY He is the West Coast representative of Immersive Medical, Inc, a visualization company for medical-surgical images. In a recent MMVR meeting, he and colleagues from the University of Kentucky presented on A Virtual Reality Approach Laparoscopic Operative Setup for Training at the University of Kentucky. For this work, an immersive three dimensional projection system (ImmersaDesk) is used. A number of references to past work focused on the use of learning technologies in Medicine is below. He is a regular presenter in the Tutorial Sessions sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and Internet2 at the Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

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