December 5–6th in Dublin: 2nd European Annual Virtual Reality and Healthcare Symposium

Day 1 – Thursday, December 5th, 2019

9:00am‑9:30am

Intro­duc­tions, Wel­come and Set­ting The Stage
Robert Fine, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Inter­na­tion­al Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty and Health­care Asso­ci­a­tion (IVRHA)

9:30am-10:30am

Keynote Pre­sen­ta­tion:  Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty and Health­care: The Past, The Present and The Future
Dr. Wal­ter Green­leaf, Behav­ioral Neu­ro­sci­en­tist, Stan­ford University

11:00am-11:30am

Talk­ing Sense or BreatheVR
Deepa Mann-Kler, Vis­it­ing Pro­fes­sor in Immer­sive Futures, Ulster University

11:30am-12:00pm

The VR Expe­ri­ence at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Can­cer Center
Dr. William P. Levin, Med­ical Direc­tor, Glob­al Net­work Oper­a­tions, Dept. of Radi­a­tion Oncol­o­gy, Hos­pi­tal of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Pennsylvania

2:30pm‑3:00pm

Inde­pen­dence Insight – Over­com­ing Apha­sia by Using AR Smart Glasses
Dr. Lars Riede­mann, Physi­cian-Sci­en­tist, Depart­ment of Neu­rol­o­gy, Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty Hospital

 

Day 2 – Friday, December 6th, 2019

9:15am-10:00am

Keynote Pre­sen­ta­tion: Twen­ty Years of Bring­ing Tech­nol­o­gy Into Hos­pi­tals – Shared Expertise
Dr. Susan Maz­er, Co-Founder, Heal­ing Health­care Systems

10:00am-10:30am

Immer­sive Art As Therapy
Sarah Ticho, Founder, Hat­sum­iVR, Health­care Lead at Immerse UK

11:30am-12:00pm

Twen­ty Years of Chron­ic Pain Data from Chi­na, and Vir­tu­al Reality’s Role to Play
Dr. Diane Gro­ma­la, Cana­da Research Chair, Com­pu­ta­tion­al Tech­nolo­gies for Trans­form­ing Pain, Simon Frasi­er University

1:00pm‑1:30pm

Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty Across The Patient Care Continuum
Dr. Robert Louis, Skull Base and Pitu­itary Tumor Pro­gram, Pick­up Fam­i­ly Neu­ro­sciences Insti­tute, Hoag Memo­r­i­al Hospital

3:30pm‑4:00pm

VR Neu­ro­feed­back Par­a­digm for Train­ing and Assess­ment of Brain Functions
Dr. Stavros Skouras, Prin­ci­pal Inves­ti­ga­tor on Neu­ro­feed­back Reg­u­la­tion Net­works, Depart­ment of Bio­log­i­cal and Med­ical Psy­chol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Bergen

4:00pm‑4:30pm

DEEP: Play­ful Approach­es to Anx­i­ety Man­age­ment Using Biofeedback
Niki Smit, Co-Founder and Design­er, Monobanda

 

How to inter­vene ear­ly: Exam­ples in depres­sion, epilep­sy and smok­ing ces­sa­tion from Sharp­Brains