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Virtual Reality in Curricula Will Be Topic March 4

FEB. 13, 2003 | Virtual reality simulations in health sciences curricula will be the topic of the next Teaching Scholars Program Lecture Tuesday, March 4.

Helene M. Hoffman, Ph.D., will lecture on "Virtual Reality and Next Generation Simulations: Do They Have a Place in Health Sciences Curricula?" The lecture at 4-5 p.m. in John E. Pauly Auditorium in Education Building III will be open to all members of the faculty. One hour of continuing medical education credit will be available.


Helene M. Hoffman, Ph.D. 
Dr. Hoffman is adjunct professor in the Department of Medicine and Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Educational Computing in the School of Medicine at the University of California San Diego. As director of the Office of Educational Computing there, she leads development, implementation, and evaluation of technology-based resources and services for the undergraduate medical curriculum.

Dr. Hoffman’s research activities focus on human learning and the educational application of new technologies such as virtual reality. Since 1993, she has been principal investigator on projects funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research that have led to the development of a virtual learning environment called "Anatomic VisualizeR."

Dr. Hoffman is involved in a wide variety of national and international educational initiatives. She is on the steering committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Information Resources, a founding member of the California Medical Informatics Consortium (IMED), past chair of the AAMC Special Interest Group on Computers in Medical Education, and a member of the AAMC Medical Informatics Task Force. She is also a Program Committee member of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality annual conference and a co-editor of the conference proceedings (IOS Press).

Dr. Hoffman received her B.S. in physiology at the University of Buffalo and her Ph.D. in cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). She was an NIH Research Fellow in the UCSD Department of Pharmacology and the University of Vermont Department of Physiology and Biophysics. Following her postdoctoral training, Dr. Hoffman served as Assistant Director of UCSD SOM Tutorial Program where she began her interest in developing tools for teaching and learning.


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