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National Center for Collaboration
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Medical Modeling and Simulation
NCCMMS News Briefs
| April 2007 |
| NCCMMS Co-Founding Director, C.
Donald Combs, Ph.D., presented "The Emerging Importance of Using
Medical Simulation in Resident Education" as part of the Eastern
Virginia Medical School Faculty Development Grand Rounds Series
"Improving Your Teaching" on April 19, 2007. The presentation was
simulcast over the Eastern Virginia Telemedicine Network (EVTN) to
the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Hampton, VA, as well as to
other EVTN network sites. Medical modeling and simulation researchers and practitioners have
until May 31, 2007 to submit papers for consideration for the
inaugural MODSIM World Conference to be
held September 11-13 at the Virginia Beach Conference Center in
Virginia Beach, Va. The conference theme is "Enable Decision-Making
in a Rapidly Changing World with Modeling and Simulation"; several tracks are being offered, including Medical, Homeland
Security/Defense, Transportation, and Education/Training, with
cross-cutting tracks on Game-Based Technology and Interoperability.
The co-chairs of the Medical Track are NCCMMS Co-Founding Director
C. Donald Combs, Ph.D., of Eastern Virginia Medical School and
NCCMMS Co-Director Mark W. Scerbo, Ph.D., of Old Dominion
University. Confirmed speakers for the Medical Track include
notables in the field such as Richard M. Satava, M.D., FACS; Steven
Dawson, M.D.; Carla M. Pugh, M.D., Ph.D., FACS; Patrick Cregan,
M.D., FRCS; and Paul E. Phrampus, M.D.
NCCMMS Co-Director Mark W. Scerbo, Ph.D., will lead the NCCMMS
delegation at the 4th Annual Advanced Initiatives in Medical
Simulation (AIMS) Conference and Exhibition to be held May 8-9 in
Washington, D.C. NCCMMS personnel from Eastern Virginia Medical
School's Theresa A. Thomas Professional Skills Teaching and
Assessment Center will demonstrate the use of standardized patients
(SPs) in medical education and NCCMMS personnel from Old Dominion
University's Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC)
will demonstrate Augmented Standardized Patient® technology that
expands the repertoire of pathologies that can be simulated by
standardized patients. |
| March 2007 |
| NCCMMS Co-Founding Director C.
Donald Combs, Ph.D., presented his paper entitled "Assessing
Emerging Technologies in Medicine and Health," at the International ISPI Conference held March 22-25, 2007 in Amalfi, Italy. |
| February 2007 |
| Several NCCMMS researchers
participated in the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 15 conference
held in Long Beach, Calif., from February 6-9, 2007. The theme of this
year's MMVR conference was "in vivo, in vitro, in silico:
Designing the Next in Medicine."
C. Donald Combs, Ph.D., NCCMMS Co-Founding Director, presented his
poster entitled "Analyzing the MMVR and the MMSD© Research Spaces:
Understanding Rapid Growth." Elizabeth A. Schmidt, a Ph.D., graduate
student in Human Factors Psychology at Old Dominion University,
presented her paper "Task Sequencing Effects for Open and Closed
Loop Laparoscopic Skills." Jessica R. Crouch, Ph.D., presented her
poster entitled "Parametric Eye Models." Bo Sun, a Ph.D. graduate
student in Modeling and Simulation at Old Dominion University,
presented her poster entitled "Medical Student Evaluation Using
Augmented Standardized Patients®: New Developments and Results." |
| January 2007 |
| Eastern Virginia Medical School
and the American College of Surgeons finalized an agreement to
jointly create and market a medical modeling and simulation
Web-based portal that will incorporate the Medical Modeling and
Simulation Database© developed by Eastern Virginia Medical School. |
| August 2006 |
| M. Lorraine Lyman, Physical
Teaching Associate at Eastern Virginia Medical School's Theresa
A. Thomas Professional Skills Teaching and Assessment Center,
presented "Pilot Test of An Augmented Standardized Patient® System
for Auscultation" at the 5th Annual Conference of the Association of
Standardized Patient Educators in Tucson, Ariz. |
| June 2006 |
| The Virginia General Assembly, in
a special legislative session, appropriated a total of $11 million
to NCCMMS institutions under the state's VIMSIM (VIrginia Modeling
and SIMulation) Initiative for the 2006-2008 biennium to promote
modeling and simulation efforts in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Of
this total, Old Dominion University received $8 million to build
research capacity in modeling and simulation, including funding for
medical simulator training research and medical simulator
development and support, while Eastern Virginia Medical School
received $3 million to develop research capacity in medical modeling
and simulation. Old Dominion University, co-founding institution of the NCCMMS with
Eastern Virginia Medical School, announced the appointment of
Michael McGinnis, Ph.D., as Executive Director of the Virginia
Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC) effective June 12,
2006. Dr. McGinnis came to VMASC from the U.S. Military Academy at
West Point, NY, where he served as chair of the Department of
Systems Engineering. Dr. McGinnis, described "as one of the Army's
foremost experts on modeling, simulation and analysis," received his
doctorate in systems and industrial engineering from the
University of Arizona. |
| May 2006 |
NCCMMS Co-Founding Director C.
Donald Combs, Ph.D., and Old Dominion University (ODU) Associate
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Frederic D.
McKenzie, Ph.D., inaugurated their ODU summer semester graduate
school course, "Topics in Medical Imaging and Simulation", on May
30, 2006. The course included a two-week research field trip to
Warsaw, Poland, and Zurich, Switzerland, where the faculty and
students visited the simulation laboratories of Warsaw Polytechnic
Institute and ETH Zurich and attended a biomedical simulation
conference held at ETH Zurich.
NCCMMS researcher John A. Ullian, Ph.D., presented a poster on
"Clinical Skills Assessment Using Augmented Standardized Patients®"
at the annual meeting of the Southern Group on Educational Affairs
of the Association of American Medical Colleges held in Galveston,
TX. |
| February 2006 |
| NCMMS Co-Director, Mark W. Scerbo,
Ph.D., presented a lecture on "The Future of Medical Simulation and
the Need for Human Factors" to the National Academy of Sciences
Committee on Human Factors in Washington, D.C. |
| January 2006 |
| Several NCCMMS researchers participated in the Medicine Meets
Virtual Reality 14 conference held in Long Beach, CA, from January
24-27, 2006. The theme of this year’s MMVR conference was
“Accelerating Change in Healthcare: Next Medical Toolkit.”
C. Donald Combs, Ph.D., NCCMMS Co-Founding Director, presented his
poster entitled “Simulating the Domain of Medical Modeling and
Simulation: The Medical Modeling and Simulation Database©.” Mark W. Scerbo, Ph.D., co-Director of the NCCMMS, participated in a panel
discussion on “Patient Safety and Medical Simulation: Issues,
Challenges and Opportunities” with a presentation on “Human Factors
Issues in Patient Safety.” In addition, Dr. Scerbo presented on “A
Simulation-Based Training System for Surgical Wound Debridement.”
Frederic D. McKenzie, Ph.D., presented on “Medical Student
Evaluation Using Augmented Standardized Patients: Preliminary
Results.” Lee A. Belfore, II, Ph.D., presented his poster entitled
“A Software Framework for Surgical Simulation Virtual
Environments.” Yuzhong Shen, Ph.D., presented his poster entitled “Realistic
Irrigation Visualization in a Surgical Wound Debridement Simulator.” |
| November 2005 |
NCCMMS researchers Frederic D. McKenzie, Ph.D., Yuzhong Shen,
Ph.D., and Old Dominion University Graduate Research Assistant Bo
Sun demonstrated the NCCMMS’ Augmented Standardized Patient
prototype at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and
Education Conference (I/ITSEC) held in Orlando, FL, from November 28
through December 1.
C. Donald Combs, Ph.D., NCCMMS Co-Founding Director, presented his
paper entitled “Forging Interdisciplinary Collaboration: The Medical
Modeling and Simulation Database©,”, at the International ISPI
Conference held November 10-13 in Venice, Italy. |
| August 2005 |
| Mark W. Scerbo, Ph.D., co-Director of the NCCMMS, presented at
the Advanced Technology Applications for Combat Casualty Care 2005 (ATACCC
2005) conference held August 15-17 at St. Pete Beach, FL. Dr. Scerbo
provided an overview of NCCMMS medical modeling and research
activities as part of the Department of Defense Baseline Review of
Medical Training activity held in conjunction with the ATACCC 2005
conference. NCCMMS researchers Lee A. Belfore, II, Ph.D. and Hector M. Garcia,
M.Arch., demonstrated the Surgical Wound Debridement
Simulation-Based Training System developed by the NCCMMS at the
ATACCC 2005 conference. |
| July 2005 |
| NCCMMS researcher Mark W. Scerbo, Ph.D., Professor of Human
Factors Psychology at Old Dominion University, was named co-Director
of the NCCMMS, replacing co-Founding Director R. Bowen Loftin,
Ph.D., who left NCCMMS to become Vice President and Chief Executive
Officer of Texas A&M University at Galveston. Dr. Scerbo is a
specialist in the study of human factors and has considerable
experience in the field of human factors research applied to medical
and surgical simulators. |
| June 2005 |
Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) received a $70,000 grant
from the Edward J. Stemmler Medical Education Research Fund of the
National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) to create an “augmented
standardized patient.” EVMS is a pioneer in the use of standardized
patients – people who realistically portray patients – to teach
future and current physicians how to compile histories, perform
exams and interact with patients at EVMS’ Theresa A. Thomas
Professional Skills Teaching and Assessment Center. One limitation
of this teaching methodology, however, is that a standardized
patient cannot portray abnormal physical symptoms.
With support from the NBME, the NCCMMS, a joint project of EVMS and
Old Dominion University’s Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation
Center (VMASC), will use augmented reality technology to enhance the
standardized patient experience for medical students and residents
to achieve a more life-like training experience to include the
ability to portray abnormal physical symptoms. |
| January 2005 |
C. Donald Combs, Ph.D., NCCMMS Co-Founding Director, and NCCMMS
research associate Kara Friend, M.S., presented their poster
entitled “The Medical Modeling and Simulation Database©” at the
Western Simulation Multiconference held January 23-27 in New
Orleans, LA and their poster entitled “Tracking the Domain: The
Medical Modeling and Simulation Database©” at the Medicine Meets
Virtual Reality conference held January 26-29 in Long Beach, CA.
Mark W. Scerbo, Ph.D., an NCCMMS researcher, served as a presenter
and panel member in a discussion of “Emerging Trends in Medical
Simulation: Identifying the Needs of the Medical Community and
Methods to Address Them” at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality
conference held January 26-29 in Long Beach, CA. |
| December 2004 |
| NCCMMS co-founding director/
researcher C. Donald Combs, Ph.D., and NCCMMS research associate
Kara Friend, M.S., have been selected to provide a poster
presentation "The Medical Modeling and Simulation Database©" at the
2005 Western Simulation Multiconference "WesternSim'05" to be held
in New Orleans, LA, January 23-27. |
| November 2004 |
| Several NCCMMS researchers will be
demonstrating their ongoing research projects during the 2004
Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference
(I/ITSEC) "Simulation and Training: Transforming 21st Century
Operations" to be held in Orlando, FL, December 6-9, 2004. The
I/ITSEC conference is the premier conference for promoting
cooperation among the Armed Forces, industry, academia and various
government agencies in pursuit of improved training and education
programs, identification of common issues and development of
multiservice training and education programs. NCCMMS researchers Frederick
McKenzie, Ph.D., Reynel Castellino, Thomas Hubbard, M.D., M.P.H.,
J.D., John Ullian, Ph.D. and Gayle Gliva provided a poster
presentation "Augmented Standardized Patients Now Virtually a
Reality" at the 2004 IEEE and ACM (Association for Computing
Machinery) International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
(ISMAR 04) held in Arlington, VA, November 2-5. The poster
documented ongoing NCCMMS research to utilize augmented reality
technologies to improve the capability of standardized patients in
portraying various pathologies in the training of medical students. |
| October 2004 |
| NCCMMS co-founding
director/researcher C. Donald Combs, Ph.D., and NCCMMS research
associate Kara Friend, M.S., have been selected to provide a poster
presentation "Tracking the Domain: The Medical Modeling and
Simulation Database©" at the 13th Annual Medicine Meets Virtual
Reality Conference "MMVR13: The Magical Next Becomes the Medical
Now" to be held in Long Beach, CA, January 26-29, 2005. NCCMMS researcher Thomas Hubbard,
M.D., M.P.H.., J.D., led a research team in the submission of a
research proposal "The Augmented Standardized Patient: Utilizing
Augmented Reality for Assessment" for potential funding through the
Stemmler Medical Education Fund of the National Board of Medical
Examiners in Philadelphia, PA. Funding decisions will be announced
by the NBME in March 2005.
NCCMMS researcher Mark Scerbo,
Ph.D., has been selected to provide a presentation "Assessing
Surgical Skill Training Under Hazardous Conditions in a Virtual
Environment" at the 13th Annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality
Conference "MMVR13: The Magical Next Becomes the Medical Now" to be
held in Long Beach, CA, January 26-29, 2005. |
| September
2004 |
| NCCMMS Researcher John A.
Sokolowski, Ph.D., in conjunction with researchers at Carnegie
Mellon University's Center for Computational Analysis of Social and
Organizational Systems, was awarded a Department of Homeland
Security Metropolitan Medical Response System Special Project Award
of $329,606 for his proposal "Mass Casualty Model to Support MMRS
Training and Analysis Requirements". The project involves developing
BioWar - a management level simulation training system to
realistically portray mass casualty events with the capability to
adapt and change surroundings for jurisdictional geography,
circumstances, etc. |
| June 2004 |
| The NCCMMS was awarded a grant of
$1,442,000 for ongoing medical modeling and simulation research by
the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research in Arlington, VA. |
| October 2003 |
| The NCCMMS received an
appropriation of $1.5 million to support medical modeling and
simulation research through the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research
in Arlington, VA. |
| May/June 2003 |
| The U.S. Navy's Naval Health
Research Center in San Diego, CA contracted with the NCCMMS for
$1.95 million for ongoing medical modeling and simulation research. |
| November 2002 |
| The NCCMMS entered into a contract
with the U.S. Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research
Command (TATRC) for $185,000 to conduct medical modeling and
simulation research. |
| October 2002 |
| The NCCMMS received an
appropriation of $2.25 million through the U.S. Navy's Naval Health
Research Center in San Diego, CA for medical modeling and simulation
research. |
| December 2001 |
| The NCCMMS is authorized by the
U.S. Congress and $200,000 is appropriated to the NCCMMS through the
U.S. Army's Medical Research and Materiel Command's Telemedicine and
Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC). |
| August 2000 |
| Initial NCCMMS conceptual
development and funding. |
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