An Avatar in your O.R., Redefining Human Interaction in Surgery with Shafi Ahmed

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Channel: NextMed Health · 2018 · Science & Technology

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Dr. Shafi Ahmed is pioneering new AR & VR approaches to scaling medical education, from bringing thousands into his OR via live streaming VR, to 'mixed reality' avatar surgical consultants. At  Exponential Medicine 2017, Shafi shared some of his latest work including a live demo of interactive virtual clinical interactions that portend a new future of medical education and collaboration.

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