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YOU ARE HERE: VR MED LAB / AWARDS / NETTER AWARD [ view printer friendly version here ] UIC’s Virtual Temporal Bone research team receives prestigious Netter award from Vesalius Trust for Visual Communication in the Health Sciences
The UIC Virtual Temporal Bone research team was named as the 1998 recipient of the prestigious Dr. Frank Netter award for their Virtual Temporal Bone application. The application was a cooperative interdisciplinary effort of UIC's Virtual Reality Med Lab (referred to as the VR Med Lab) in the College of Associated Health Professions’ School of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences; the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery in the College of Medicine; and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) in the College of Engineering. Members of the research team were: Walter Panko, PhD, Director of the School of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences; Mary Rasmussen, Ray Evenhouse, and Alan Millman, all research assistant professors in the school; and Theodore Mason, MD, resident, and Edward Applebaum, MD, professor and head of the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery. [top] The Vesalius Trust makes this international award annually to recognize individuals or institutions that have developed visually-oriented educational material with either proven or potential impact on the way health sciences are taught or practiced. Entries were evaluated on their design, content, educational value, use of technology, and impact on medical education. Some past recipients of the prestigious award have been: the Mayo Clinic-Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, Dr. C. Everett Koop and Jane Hurd, Patient Education Media/Time-Life Medical, and Tom McCracken and Biographics. [top] The award-winning application--which researchers explore using a wand and a special pair of eyeglasses while facing a 20-square-foot screen called an ImmersaDeskTM--projects a three-dimensional view of the fine bones, nerves, and hollow spaces in the human ear from any vantage point inside or outside the human ear. "This technology will revolutionize the way we train medical students and residents as well as practicing physicians who want to refresh their skills or learn new ones," said Dr. Panko. The virtual reality application was designed for and is being used to train practicing surgeons (or surgeons-in-training) in otolaryngology who are located at great distances or in remote locations. The success of this application now makes it possible for a faculty otolaryngologist at a major research hospital to instruct resident physicians and students at remote locations by allowing both the otolaryngologist and students to simultaneously interact and observe the three-dimensional temporal bone. [top] "This application was possible because of the teamwork of otologic surgeons, medical illustrators and sculptors, computer scientists, and computer visualization experts. This collaboration combined human anatomic material and medical art with computer science to create a uniquely effective medium for medical education both locally and worldwide. The Virtual Temporal Bone application is a significant teaching development for the understanding of the complex anatomy and function of the human ear," stated Dr. Applebaum. The award was presented to Dr. Panko and Ms. Rasmussen at the Association of Medical Illustrators annual meeting in Toronto, Canada on July 24th. For More Information Contact: [top]
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