March 18, 2009
Tonight, March 18, Innovations for International Health (IIH) is hosting a lecture by Ryan Scott Bardsley, Systems Manager at the CIMIT Simulation Group at Mass General Hospital and researcher at IIH.
His lecture, “Medical Simulation and Training for the Developing World” will explore the convergence of open-source architectures, micro-controllers, pervasive connectivity, and affordable fabrication technologies that are poised to introduce medical simulation into poor countries. Leveraging systems he has developed for the U. S. Army for the past 10 years, he will discuss how a well-designed simulation infrastructure can serve as a powerful platform for deploying medical expertise, assessing provider competency, and adapting training resources to meet local medical needs. Medical simulation will be the fourth computing revolution to hit global health on the heels of low-cost computing, wireless telecommunications, and medical information systems.
The lecture will be held from 6:00-7:30pm at the MIT Museum, located at 265 Massachusetts Ave in Cambridge, MA. For more information, please contact jfgm@mit.edu.
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