NextMed MMVR Medicine Meets Virtual Reality - Technology for patient care and medical education

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NextMed / MMVR21
February 20 - 22, 2014
Manhattan Beach Marriott Hotel
Manhattan Beach (Los Angeles), California
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Submission Deadline will be August 1, 2013.
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NextMed / MMVR20

February 20 - 23, 2013
San Diego Marriott Mission Valley Hotel
San Diego, California

NextMed / MMVR20 was a successful mix of lectures, posters, exhibits, and socializing. Our sincere thanks to the 288 people who joined us to celebrate our 20th anniversary.

Despite the unusually chilly weather, we received many compliments on the warm and congenial atmosphere indoors. International participation was a gratifying 32%, and we appreciate everyone's effort to gather in San Diego to share and learn.

Three plenary sessions with featured speakers explored the forefront of health and medicine, while oral and poster presentations detailed critical developments in the field. Exhibits and demos provided tactile, one-on-one interaction, the Calit2 tour inspired visitors, and evening activities merged networking and fun. And we again congratulate Alexander Tsiaras as the recipient of this year's Satava Award.

Please visit the Archive page for more details, including the course syllabus and slides from some presentations. And stop by Facebook to enjoy conference photos.

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Conference Details

NextMed MMVR

THURSDAY FEATURED SPEAKERS

	Engineering the OR of the Future Carla Pugh MD PhD Vice-Chair for Education and Patient Safety; Clinical Director, UW Health Clinical Simulation Program; School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin - Madison
	The Alliance of Surgical Specialties for Education and Training (ASSET): Multi-Specialty Alliance for Curriculum Development Richard Satava MD Professor Emeritus of Surgery, University of Washington
	Deep Self - Quantifying the State of Your Body Larry Smarr PhD Founding Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology; Harry E. Gruber Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
	Surgery, Virtual Reality, and the Future Kirby Vosburgh PhD Associate Director, Advanced Multimodality Image Guidance Operating Room, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
	Cold Atmospheric Plasmas in Medical Therapy Julia Zimmermann PhD Project Manager, Plasma Health Care, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

FRIDAY FEATURED SPEAKERS

	What Comes To Mind: The Artistic Process, Neuroesthetics, and The Brain Observatory Joyce Cutler-Shaw Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Scholar, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego Jacopo Annese PhD Assistant Professor of Radiology and Director, The Brain Observatory, University of California, San Diego
	Lab-Made 'Natural' Biomaterials for Consumption Gabor Forgacs PhD Scientific Founder, Organovo and Modern Meadow; George H. Vineyard Professor of Biological Physics, University of Missouri; Executive and Scientific Director, Shipley Center for Innovation, Clarkson University
	Driving Technology Towards Unmet Needs Steven Schwaitzberg MD Chief of Surgery, Cambridge Health Alliance; Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Past President, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
	It is Story that can Give a Soul to Data Alexander Tsiaras Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Anatomical Travelogue LLC; Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive Officer, TheVisualMD.com
	Ultra Perceptual Medicine - Imaging Complex Medical Knowledge through a High Resolution Hyper-Dimensional Medical Infoscope Dave Warner MD PhD Medical Neuroscientist, MindTel LLC

SATURDAY FEATURED SPEAKERS

	The Future of Scientific Journals: Will Two Centuries of Tradition Yield to the Power of the Internet? John Adler, Jr. MD Editor-in-Chief, Cureus.com; Dorothy & TK Chan Professor of Neurosurgery, Emeritus, Stanford University School of Medicine; VP, Chief of New Clinical Applications, Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
	Introduction to Virtual Prototyping of Medical Devices Arthur Erdman PhD Richard C. Jordan Professor, Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor; Director, Medical Devices Center, University of Minnesota
	Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Training David Hadden Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, TheraSim Inc.
	Action at a Distance: Improving the Mobile Medical Experience Benjamin Kanter MD Chief Medical Information Officer, Palomar Health
	Challenges in Simulation and Designer/3D Environment Interfaces Daniel Keefe PhD McKnight Land-Grant Assistant Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
	Actual Use of the University of Minnesota Virtual Simulation System for Medical Device Development Randy Schiestl PMP Vice President, Global Operations and Technology, Engineering Services Group, Boston Scientific

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