MMVR 2011 - MMVR 18 - Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2011

MMVR18
NextMed

February 8 - 12, 2011
Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa
Newport Beach, California
Accepted oral and poster presentations now listed at the Program page!

Please note: TATRC has extended its participation into a second day. It will host an "Industry Day" on Tuesday, February 8, as well as its popular "PI Review Day" on Wednesday, February 9. TATRC's program will be a valuable adjunct to the main MMVR program. Details will be broadcast as soon as they become available.

Following their review by members of the Organizing Committee, accepted oral and poster presentations are now listed at the Program page. These presentations will be complemented by invited speakers, independently organized sessions, and other activities. We sincerely thank the many researchers who shared their work during the Call for Presentations last July.

During the Call, the MMVR Organizing Committee invited submissions from researchers discovering new tools and methods at the juncture of informatics and medicine. These submissions will form the core of this February's program.

MMVR includes a broad range of topics, including:
Biomedical simulation, modeling, and rendering
Data visualization and fusion
Imaging devices and methods
Robotics
Haptics
Sensors and sensor grids
Human-computer interfaces
Medical intelligence and mobile health networks
Projection systems
Virtual and augmented reality
Learning and technology
Simulator design and validation
Surgical registration and navigation
Psychotherapy tools
Physical rehabilitation tools
Remote and battlefield care
Serious games
Wearable and implantable electronics
Patient and public health monitoring and education
In addition, the NextMed portion of MMVR highlights research outside the IT-focused core, expanding the dialogue into biology, materials science, and the micro/nano realms. One focus of this year's NextMed is plasma medicine, an extraordinary technology that promises to transform surgery, wound care, microbial control, and other applications.

About MMVR

Since 1992, when it debuted as the "Medicine Meets Virtual Reality" conference, MMVR has served as a forum for researchers harnessing IT advances for the benefit of patient diagnosis and care, medical education, and procedural training. Over the years, its curriculum evolved well beyond virtual reality; it now presents a wide spectrum of biomedical innovation.

MMVR is valued for provoking singular interactions among developers and end-users. It promotes unorthodox problem-solving as the complement to rigorous scientific methodology.

Pioneers in the field have found the conference to be an encouraging, collaborative environment for sharing new solutions to healthcare challenges. MMVR welcomes scientists, physicians, engineers, educators, students, military, industry, psychologists, designers, futurists, and others who are interested in medicine's future.

In a two-day program that precedes MMVR, TATRC (www.tatrc.org) will showcase key research projects from its funded portfolio. The MMVR-TATRC partnership strengthens academic-commercial-government collaborations that lead to groundbreaking scientific achievement.

This year, we will reduce or eliminate our print mailings. Please be sure you are on our email list for future announcements!
If you have questions about MMVR, please contact us at MMVR18-AT-NextMed.com.