IEEE ISMAR 2022 Workshop

Transforming Medical Education and Clinical Applications through Extended Reality 

Date: 21st Oct 2022

Time: 9am-12pm

Venue: Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel – Waterfront 1 (Level 2) and zoom.

 

There is an emerging trend of digital transformation using extended reality technology in medical simulation and clinical applications to improve medical training and patient outcome. The transformation is particularly important to address key areas that are often difficult to teach or lack clinical exposure.

The workshop is jointly organised by College of Design and Engineering and School of Medicine of National University of Singapore and National University Health System to promote exchanges in the latest extended reality research in medical education and clinical applications. Recent use cases of XR technologies in the medical school and hospitals will be shared and discussed with workshop participants along with design/usability considerations and advancement in research areas like device/object tracking, gesture tracking, volume reconstruction, mixed reality overlay and haptics.

 

Schedule

9:00am     Welcome address – Dr Khoo Eng Tat, Principal Investigator, NUS Immersive Reality Lab

9:10am     Keynotes address – Mr Richard Koh, CTO, Microsoft Singapore

9:45am     NUHS Holomedicine Programmes- Dr Gao Yujia, Assist Group CTO, National University Health System

9:55am     Revolutionizing Medical Education and Training with Advanced Technology Using Hololens: The Way Forward – Prof Alfred Kow, Assistant Dean of Education, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

10:05am   VR in Obstetrics – Dr Arundhati Gosavi, Director of Undergraduate Education, Department of O&G, National University Health System

10:15am   Immersive Virtual Reality for Clinical Procedures – Prof Lau Siew Tiang Lydia, Director of Education, Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

10 mins break

10:35am   AI Virtual Humans for Medical Education – Mr Aiden Koh, CTO, MediVR

10:45am   Untethered haptic glove for immersive medical reality – Dr Yeo Joo Chuan, CEO, Microtube

10:55am   Haptic modelling and rendering for virtual reality and robotics – Mr Cai Shaoyu, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong

11:05am   Panel: Transforming medical education and training through advances in AI and extended reality

Speakers: Alfred Kow, Arundhati Gosavi, Aiden Koh, Yeo Joo Chuan. Moderator: Khoo Eng Tat 

11:35am   Discussion and demonstration

12:00pm   Lunch

 

More information please visit IEEE ISMAR 2022 conference.

Workshop Chairs

Dr Khoo Eng Tat (etkhoo@nus.edu.sg)

  • Principal Investigator, Immersive Reality Lab
  • Area Director (Outreach), NUS Engineering Design and Innovation Centre

Dr Khoo Eng Tat is a senior lecturer and area director of outreach at Engineering Design and Innovation Centre, and principal investigator at Immersive Reality Lab, National University of Singapore. His research and teaching interest is in virtual reality (VR), augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR), machine learning and human computer interaction (HCI). He is a board director of AsiaVR Association and a founding member of the Holomedicine Association.

Eng Tat was formerly a R&D director of a leading VR/AR company, where he led interdisciplinary teams and spearheaded new product development. He later co-founded a VR company and was an engineering & investment lead in a venture capital firm.

 

A/Prof Alfred Kow Wei Chieh

  • Assistant Dean, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
  • Head & Senior Consultant, Division of Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, National University Hospital

Dr Alfred Kow Wei Chieh is the Assistant Dean (Education) of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at National University of Singapore. He chairs the Curriculum Rationalization Task Force and the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (UGCC) at the medical school. Concurrently, he is a full time surgeon at the National University Health System (National University Hospital), working as a hepatobiliary surgeon (predominantly liver, pancreas and gallbladder diseases, liver transplantation and general surgery). He is also the Undergraduate Medical Education Director at the Department of Surgery, NUS. He crafted many new teaching programs and modules to cater to the changing practices of Medicine in Singapore, including reforming the Student Internship Program in Surgery and using technology to teach medical students on patient safety. His research areas of interest include the clinical outcomes of diseases involving liver, gallbladder and pancreas diseases/ malignancies and liver transplantation. He is also a champion of minimally invasive surgery in these areas. In addition to clinical research, he is actively involved in scholarly and academic work involving teaching pedagogy in Medicine and Surgery.

 

Dr Gao Yujia

  • Assistant Group CTO, National University Health System
  • Consultant, Division of Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, National University Hospital

Dr Gao Yujia is a Consultant from the Adult Liver Transplantation Programme, National University Centre for Organ Transplantation, Division of Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery at National University Hospital and the Division of Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery, Department of General Surgery at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital.

Apart from his clinical work, Dr Gao is deeply involved in undergraduate medical education at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, serving as the Deputy Director, Undergraduate Medical Education and is responsible for the planning and execution of the surgical posting for final year medical students.

As the Assistant Group Chief Technology Officer of the National University Health System, Dr Gao spearheads various projects including the development of Holomedicine, Mixed Reality devices, and applications for medical education and clinical medicine.

Dr Gao is also the Vice Chairman, and Director of Science, Medicine and Technology of the Holomedicine Association, which is an international association aimed at bringing together expertise from around the world to advance the science of Mixed Reality and its application in clinical medicine.

 

Workshop Committee 

  • Associate Professor Kening Zhu, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
  • Assistant Professor Arundhati Gosavi, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
  • Anthea Foong, CEO, MediVR
  • Ng Kian Wei, Data Scientist, National University Health System Singapore
  • Jiang Shan, PhD candidate, Immersive Reality Lab, National University of Singapore

 

Organisers

NUS College Design and Engineering 

NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine 

National University Health System – NUHS 

Partner

Holomedicine Association