SPECIAL NYU VIRTUAL PATIENT SEMINAR:

The Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Research is pleased
to announce a special seminar on the theme of the "Virtual
Patient".  All interested faculty and staff are welcome.

Unlike previous VP seminars, this seminar is being jointly
co-sponsored with the Medical Education and Technology
group at the NYU School of Medicine.  The speaker will be James
Gordon, MD, of the Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Gordon will be
speaking on "Advanced Technologies in Medical Education:  The
Case for Patient Simulation."

This talk is of particular relevance to the NYU Virtual
Patient community, because it will be providing a thorough
overview of high fidelity simulation and its application
to medical education.

The talk will take place on April 20 from 11-1PM at the
NYU School of Medicine in Coles 101.  Lunch will be included.

Directions: go up to Coles 202, then take the stairwell down
one flight to Coles 101 (due to construction, the library
entrance to Coles 101 is temporarily blocked off).

The Virtual Patient (VP) is an initiative, jointly hosted
by the Courant Institute and the School of Medicine, that uses
simulation and modeling of the patient, and of the interface between
doctor and patient, to help bridge the gap between medical
research and clinical practice.  VP research occupies interesting
territory already being explored by physicians, computer
scientists, psychologists, biologists, physicists, mathematicians,
educators and others.  The purpose of the series is to establish
common research goals and areas of concentration within the
university and to foster collaborations that will advance
research into these areas.