Register for the Surgeons and Engineers: A Dialogue on Surgical Simulation

Registration for our annual Surgeons and Engineers: A Dialogue on Surgical Simulation meeting is now open. The meeting will serve as a venue for surgeons, engineers, educators, scientists, and the annual ACS Surgical Simulation Summit attendees to promote dialogue between the medical/surgical simulation and engineering communities. The meeting received 58 abstracts (48 original abstracts) from 10 countries in the following categories: Challenges in Surgical Education, Promoting Technology & Collaboration, Research Abstracts, and Research In-Progress.

The meeting will feature a keynote address, expert panels, oral and poster presentations, and interactive afternoon workshop sessions. The keynote address, “Therapeutic Principles for Bridging the Surgeon / Engineer Culture Gap in MedTech,” will be delivered by Pierre E. Dupont, PhD, from the Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. A special panel session, “How Can We Build Better Surgical Simulators?” will invite an experienced surgeon educator, a knowledgeable academic simulator engineer, and a simulator industry expert to discuss current needs, challenges, and next steps in simulator use and development.

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Contact Gyusung Lee, PhD, at glee@facs.org or 312-202-5782 for more information about the meeting.