OVERVIEW
Mission Statement
MMVR is organized to be an educational environment that stimulates communication and collaboration among scientists, engineers, physicians, surgeons, educators, students, military, government, and industry. It supports the development and adoption of advanced medical technologies for medical care and education. Its goal is improved precision, efficiency, and outcomes in patient care, practitioner training, and public health. The MMVR curriculum, by combining rigorous assessment with speculative vision, aims to create forward-thinking solutions to health problems.
Course Objectives:
Presentations are chosen to educate participants on:
- State-of-the-art for biomedical simulation and its enabling technologies, haptics and modeling
- Emerging tools for clinical diagnosis and therapy: imaging methods, data visualization and fusion techniques, robotics, and sensors
- Intelligence networks for medical decision-making, patient care, and collaboration
- Goals, accomplishments, and challenges in the development and application of novel devices and methods for medical care and education.
Who Should Attend
- Physicians, surgeons, and other medical professionals interested in emerging and future tools for diagnosis and therapy
- Educators responsible for training the next generation of doctors and scientists
- IT and medical device engineers creating state-of-the-art and next-generation simulation, imaging, robotics, and communication systems
- Data technologists creating systems for gathering, processing, and distributing medical intelligence
- Military medicine specialists addressing the challenges of warfare and defense health needs
- Biomedical futurists and investors who need to understand where medicine is headed
Important Dates
- Tuesday, July 15, 2008: Call for Presentations deadline
- September 2008: Accepted presentations announced
- September 2008: Conference and hotel registration open
- October 2008: Full program announced
- Monday, December 8, 2008: Last day of early discounted registration
- Tuesday, December 30, 2008: Last day of discounted hotel room rate
- Tuesday, December 30, 2008: Presenter registration/confirmation deadline
- January 19 – 22, 2009: MMVR17 conference
Note on CME
Due to changed objectives and requirements for physician continuing medical education (CME) accreditation, MMVR17 will not offer Category 1 CME credit. We regret any disappointment this may cause physician participants.