Archive: News

June 02, 2008

Display Wall returns to SUMMIT

After a successful series of demos and teaching sessions in M230, the Display Wall has been moved back to SUMMIT. More details on the project can be found here

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SUMMIT mentioned in Forrester Report on Web3D

Members of SUMMIT were interviewed and quoted in the April Forrester Report on 'Web3D: The Next Major Internet Wave'.
More information can be found here: http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,45257,00.html

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November 13, 2007

SUMMIT at Super Computing 2007: Day One

SUMMIT's Digial Mummy appears on Reno Local television:
http://www.ktvn.com/Global/category.asp?C=90452&nav=menu549_1

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November 01, 2007

Parvati Dev Leaves SUMMIT and Stanford

After 18 years at Stanford, Parvati Dev has decided to leave SUMMIT (Stanford University Medical Media & Information Technologies) to pursue her personal interests (see the statement from Dr. David Gaba). Among these interests is her new activity as chief scientist at Innovation in learning, Inc, a newly formed learning and development company bringing innovative online learning environments to global education. See a retrospective of her work, which impacted many at Stanford and elsewhere, at http://parvati.stanford.edu/. Parvati can be reached at her personal address parvati at parvatidev dot org.

Read on for a word from Dr. Gaba...

Statement from Dr. David Gaba, Senior Associate Dean for Immersive and Simulation based Learning):

Dr. Parvati Dev has announced that she has decided to leave SUMMIT (Stanford University Medical Media & Information Technologies) by November 1 of this year to pursue her personal interests.

Since 1990 she has directed the SUMMIT research lab in the use of computing technologies for innovation in medical education. SUMMIT researchers have been in the forefront in applying visualization, simulation and virtual reality to the learning of anatomy, surgery and other medical specialties. Networked courseware, developed at SUMMIT, is in use in medical curricula around the world.

Dr. Dev completed her doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1975. She joined the School of Medicine in 1990 to establish a research initiative in technologies for teaching and learning in medicine. Her recent award-winning research has been on translating cutting edge visualization and simulation technologies into tools and resources for faculty and students, winning her the Satava award for Virtual Reality in Medicine in 2002, and California's CENIC award for Innovations in Networking in 2007.

Dr. Dev is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and a sought-after speaker on the future of technology in learning. She serves on national committees including the Internet2 strategic advisory council, the advisory boards for CTIS, Inc., a bioinformatics company, and Forterra Systems, Inc., a serious games company. Within Stanford, she has served on the Biomedical Informatics and CISL executive committees, on PhD and admissions committees, and has been an early advisor in the design of the new Learning and Knowledge Center.

We are indebted to Parvati for her leadership and extraordinary contributions in the field of medical education technology at Stanford and in the broader academic community. We are sad to see her leave and wish her well in her new endeavors.

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April 05, 2007

Parvati Dev Featured in BusinessWeek Online

"The mind-bending new world of work"
Parvati Dev, associate dean of learning technologies and director of
Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies
(SUMMIT), is featured in this cover story on motion-capture
technology. For years, the technology has been used by film and video
game producers, and is now gaining popularity for other uses such as research.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_14/b4028001.htm?chan=search
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/03/0322_motion_capture/index_01.htm

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April 03, 2007

Photoshop CS3 Now Supports DICOM Medical Images

This version of Photoshop can import and extract metadata from DICOM files. It ships with a related scripts which opens a set of the images as individual files in Photoshop.

As part of its new Analysis tools, Photoshop can drop counters with automatic numbering and measure the distance and angle between two points. You can record the data on a point-by-point basis, then export the whole to a file.

The new software also features comprehensive image analysis with new image measurement and counting tools, as well as MATLAB integration. The software will be available April 20th, 2007.

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February 26, 2007

SUMMIT's iAnatomy Project Given the CENIC Award

The official award:
"CENIC 2007 Innovations in Networking: High-Performance Research
Applications: iAnatomy"

Certificates given to:
Parvati Dev, SUMMIT
Steve Senger, SUMMIT
Robert Cheng, SUMMIT
Margaret Krebs, SUMMIT

Project website: http://ianatomy.stanford.edu

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January 23, 2007

Virtual World: Second Life

In a recent article on CNN.com, the Second Life virtual world is seen to be a real marketplace. Now that virtual worlds such as this are being taken seriously, perhaps a medical virtual world that makes money could flourish.

"Second Life: It's not a game

Fortune's David Kirkpatrick reports on why IBM's Sam Palmisano and other tech leaders think Second Life could be a gold mine.

January 23 2007: 2:24 PM EST

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Last November in Beijing, IBM gathered 2,000 employees, with 5,000 more watching on the web, to unveil a series of global initiatives on digital storage, branchless banking, and the like. During the presentation, CEO Sam Palmisano walked up to an onstage PC, logged onto the online three-dimensional virtual world called Second Life, and took command of the cartoon-like "avatar" that represents him there."

More: CNN.com - Why tech leaders think second life could be a gold mine

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September 15, 2006

Dr. Ganapathy visits SUMMIT

Dr K Ganapathy from Apollo Hospitals in Chennai, India came to visit SUMMIT on 9/12/06. He is interested in finding out which of the technologies available at Stanford could be readily used at the hospital in Chennai.

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Case-Ex runs study week of 9/11

The case-ex project lead by Dr. Neil Gesundheit and staffed at SUMMIT by Pat Youngblood and Pauline Brutlag continues running study sessions for the pilot phase of the project this week. Case-Ex aims to determine the feasibility of supplementing Standardized Patients (actors portraying patients), the current gold standard for clinical exams, with a web-based patient simulator, Web-SP.

Web-SP is a software package developed by our collaborators Uno Fors and Nabil Zary (and others) at Karolinska institue in Sweden. Below is a screenshot showing the patient interview section of a patient case.

Initial study results from a randomized cross-over pilot study of second year medical students show that using an online patient case may produce valid results. For the patient interview section of the exam, there is a suggestion of a significant correlation betweena students results on the Standardized Patient exam and the Case-Ex exam using the virtual patient. In addition, Case-Ex exam results for the patient interview section show a normal distribution. Student acceptance of this new mode of testing was high. These results will be presented at AMEE and e-Learn conferences later this fall.

The question we are exploring now is to see if there are differences in these results, and in student acceptance, between second year medical students and fourth year medical students. These most recent study sessions are gathering data for the fourth years. Initial results show that student acceptance of this mode of testing is much lower for fourth year medical students.

Stayed tuned for more, as results will be analyzed in the coming months!

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September 08, 2006

Immersive Medical Telepresence workshop

Parvati Dev talked about immersive approaches to anatomy learning at the Immersive Medical Telepresence workshop at Phoenix, Sept 6-7. The workshop included a very convincing futuristic demo of the next generation of videoconferencing, life size video and spatial audio, for immersive presence for health care. The talks are at http://events.internet2.edu/2006/IMT/agenda.html

Workshop attendees included staff from Internet2, the Research Channel, the SURA VIDE group, NTT (Japan), vendors, and others interested in high definition video and interactive video over broadband networks. The meeting was held at the Barrow Nerological Institute, who presented the demo described above.

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September 07, 2006

SUMMIT visits Garfield Center

SUMMIT members toured Kaiser Permanente's new Sidney Garfield Health Care Innovation Center in San Leandro, CA. The new facility is being used to prototype designs for Kaiser's new medical centers.

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September 01, 2006

Welcome to SUMMIT News and Events!

SUMMIT is proud to announce the launch of this new tool for announcement of news and events. Here our staff will post: major project announcements, visits from SUMMIT friends and collaborators, upcoming workshops, staffing changes, publications, related events and more!

SUMMITeers - please visit the SUMMIT wiki for details on how to use this new tool.

SUMMIT is a research and development lab dedicated to being at the forefront of medical and health education through the innovative use of information technology. We achieve this through research and curricular project development; working in national and international partnerships with faculty, students, industry, government, NGO's and other academic research groups. We look forward with sharing our news and events with you!

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