| National Center for Collaboration in Medical Modeling & Simulation |
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In late 2001, the United States Congress formally established the National Center for Collaboration in Medical Modeling and Simulation (NCCMMS). Based in Eastern Virginia, the NCCMMS is a joint project of Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) and Old Dominion University (ODU) and a variety of academic, governmental and commercial partners. The NCCMMS builds on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's 1990s program in medical simulation research, the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Program, projects within and sponsored by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, and the hundreds of billions of dollars of expenditures in modeling and simulation already made by the nation and its private sector. The initial beneficiaries of the Center's work are the medical services within the U.S. military, but, with support from appropriate government, commercial, and institutional partners, the Center's work will be rapidly transferred to the nation's public and private health care systems. Mission and Goals 
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The NCCMMS' mission is to improve both the quality and quantity of medical care available to U.S. military forces. This is accomplished by providing a collaborative environment where basic and applied medical modeling and simulation research can be undertaken by EVMS and ODU researchers within the context of a comprehensive academic medical center that provides a convenient clinical testbed for new technologies and approaches and in a region with access to the expertise of the large U.S. military medical community as represented by the Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and other military medical facilities. The Center's goals are to:
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