VIRTUAL REALITY AND MEDICINE:  THE CUTTING EDGE

DATE:  Sept. 8,9,10,11 / 1994
PLACE: New York Hilton Hotel, New York, NY

PRODUCED BY:  Sig-Advanced Applications, Inc.
Publishers of Virtual Reality Systems Magazine.

CORPORATE CO-SPONSOR:  Automated Medical Products Corp.
Makers of the DeepVision(TM) 3D Video System

** A major conference and exhibition entirely
dedicated to Virtual Reality applications in the
Biomedical Field.

** Over 35 hands-on Virtual Reality exhibits
featuring the latest hardware and software.

** 50 speakers from researchers to developers to
users.

FEATURED TOPICS:

* Telepresence Surgery
* Medical Education
* Telemedicine
* Real-World Applications

SPECIAL FIELD TRIP:  VR technology in the
Surgical Operating Room, Mt. Sinai School of
Medicine, VAMC Hospital, Bronx, NY

* Live demonstration of minimally invasive surgeries
 with 3D vision and telerobotics

* Virtual Reality Anesthesia Simulator

* Clinico-pathological Video Teleconferencing

CONFERENCE CHAIRS:

Stanley Goldstein, Publisher, Virtual Reality
Systems magazine, NY, NY

Robert J. Greenstein, M.D., FACS, Dept. of
Surgery, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, NY, NY

Baxter J. Garcia, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College
of Medicine and Automated Medical Products Corp.,
NY, NY

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Col. Richard M. Satava, M.D., FACS, General
Surgery, Walter Reed Army Center, Advanced
Research Projects Agency, Arlington, VA

"Medicine 2001: the King is Dead"

Beth A. Marcus, Ph.D., Founder and Chief Technical
Officer, Exos, Inc., Woburn, MA

"Touch Feedback in Surgery"

PROGRAM PREVIEW:

Telepresence I:  Grigore C. Burdea, Ph.D., Dept.
of Computer Engineering, Rutgers University

**Michael Dinsmore, "Issues relating to realtime
simulation of a virtual knee palpation"

**Richard Satava, M.D., FACS, ARPA, "Requirements for
implementation of telepresence and virtual environments"

**J.C. Krieg, Polhemus Inc., "3D tracking technology
in medicine: back to basics"

Telepresence II:  Russell H. Taylor, Ph.D.,
Manager, Computer-Assisted Surgery, IBM, T.J.
Watson Research Center

**Maj. Donald V. Smith, Ph.D.,  Dept. of Radiology,
Madigan Army Medical Center, "A foundation for 21st
Century medical informatics"

**Court Cutting, M.D., Dept. of Surgery, NYU Medical Center,
"Use of a robotic vision system for
precise execution of cranio{*filter*} surgical procedures"

**David Altobelli, M.D., Harvard School of Dental Medicine,
 "Enhanced reality in cranio{*filter*} surgery"

Surgery I:  Robert J. Greenstein, M.D., FACS,
Dept. of Surgery, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

**Anthony Reino, M.D., Dept. of Otolaryngology, Mt. Sinai Medical
Center, "Three-dimensional video imaging for endoscopic
sinus surgery and diagnosis"

**Myron Krueger, CEO, Artificial Reality Corp., "Virtual odors
in surgical procedures"

**Richard Payne, M.D., Dir. Anaesthesia Training, "The use
of anesthesia patient simulator in resident training"

**Craig Engle, Virtual Reality Inc., "Experimental MIS
operations employing a stereo HMD"

Surgery II: Patrick Kelly, M.D., Dept. of Neurosurgery,
NYU Medical Center

**Michael Torma, M.D.,FACS, Presbyterian Healthcare,
"Surgical telepresence and virtual reality applications
for a health care system"

**Bela Musits, Ph.D., Integrated Surgical Systems,
"A robot for total hip replacement"

**Ferenc Jolesz, M.D., Brigham & Women's Hospital,
"MR-guided therapy systems"

**John Brennan, M.D., Dept. of OB/GYN, Long Island
College Hospital, "Virtual reality in the delivery
room of the future"

Education I:  Kevin T. McGovern, Exec. VP, Cine-
Med Inc.

**Beth Marcus, Ph.D., EXOS Inc., "Touch feedback in
surgery"

**John Flynn, Silicon Graphics Inc., "VR-based medicine
today and its future"

**Jim Damiano, Leep Systems, "Anatomical model building in an
immersive virtual environment"

Education II:   Rory Stuart, Ph.D., Member
Technical Staff, NYNEX Science & Technology

**Robert Kennedy, Ph.D., Essex Corp., "Measurement
and control of motion sickness after-effects from
VR immersion"

**Jack Stubbs, Ethicon Endosurgery, "Virtual reality
as an education and training tool for the surgical
environment of the future"

**Dan Karron, NYU Medical Center, "The spider-web algorithm for
extracting 3D objects from volume data"

Real-World Applications I:  William A. Lorensen,
Ph.D., General Electric R&D

**Stanley Shapshay, M.D., Dept. of Otolaryngology,
New England Medical Center, "Applications of VR to
endoscopic surgery"

**Michael Pankratov, Dept. of Otolaryngology,
New England Medical Center, "Adding information to
surgical imagery"

**Langham Gleason, M.D., Dept. of Neurosurgery,
Brigham & Women's Hospital, "Computer Image-guided
surgery"

Real-World Applications II:  Jonathon R. Merril,
M.D., VP, High Techsplanations

**Ronald Siwoff, O.D., F.A.A.O., Siwoff Research Corp.,
"Virtual reality and visual disability"

**Joshua Lateiner, Vox-L Corp., "Real-world
applications for stereoscopic volume visualization"

**Louis Rosenberg, Ph.D., Immersion Corp., "Affordable
human interface for virtual laparoscopic surgery
simulation"

EXHIBITORS:

**Mitre Corp.

**Virtual Reality, Inc.

**Rutgers University Center for Computer
Aids for Industrial Productivity

**Immersion Corporation

**High Technsplanations

**VOX-L

**Polhemus

**CM Research

**BioControl Systems

**Automated Medical Products

**Leep Systems

**CAE Link

**Artificial Reality Corp.

**Cine-Med

**Viewpoint

**New York University Medical Center

**American Surgical Technologies

**Dimensional Media Associates

**VREX

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