Presented by

Featured Speakers

Dr. Walter Greenleaf, PhDDirector, Mind Division at Stanford Center

on Longevity; Co-Founder, Virtual Ventures;

Chief Science Officer, Pear Therapeutics and

Cognitive Leap; Director of Technology Strategy,

National Behavioral Health Innovation Center.

Dr. Ben Lok, PhDProfessor, Computer and Information Sciences

and Engineering Department, University of Florida;

Co-Founder, Shadow Health, Inc.

Dr. Hunter Hoffman, PhDDirector, Virtual Reality Analgesia Research Center,

HITLab, Department of Mechanical Engineering,

University of Washington

Mr. Michael ThibodeauHoloLens & Mixed Reality Lead, Microsoft Canada

#REALMx2018 conference

provides you with endless

opportunities to network with

fellow attendees and get

exposed to new ideas. Meet

physicians, nurses, allied

healthcare professionals,

industry developers and

patients researching and using

#augmented #virtual #mixed

realities in healthcare. Enjoy and

let your creative juices flow!

APRIL 7TH & 8THSATURDAY & SUNDAYThe Peter Gilgan Centre for

Research and Learning –Hospital for Sick Children

TORONTO

Message from the organizing committee of Realities In Medicine Conference 2018

Welcome to #REALMx2018!!

About CHISIL

The Collaborative Human ImmerSive Interactions Lab (CHISIL) was founded by Drs.

Fahad Alam & Clyde Matava in 2014. Being clinical investigators and educators with

interests in medical education and technology enhanced learning, they decided to

form a lab focused on immersive reality. Based in Toronto, CHISIL is a collaborative

laboratory looking at the use of virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed realities in

clinical, medical and patient education in the perioperative period. CHISIL aims to be

a resource for developers, healthcare workers, medical learners and patients. For more

information, please visit www.chisil.ca.

We are delighted to host Canada’s first Realities In

Medicine Conference 2018 (#REALMx2018) in

Toronto, Ontario. This is the first Canadian conference

showcasing research into the use of mixed realities in

medicine. We have brought together the world’s

leading medical researchers and industry tech

leaders in augmented, virtual and mixed realities. By

being here you are obviously committed to moving

the area of immersive reality in healthcare forward!

When we first created the Collaborative Human

ImmerSive Interactions Lab (CHISIL) – the main

obstacles we ran into was the fact that as physicians

we needed to really connect with like-minded

industry and tech partners so we could collaborate

with combined expertise. This was not an easy task!

Thus, the vision for this conference was to help others

in our position avoid these problems.

Dr. Fahad AlamMD, FRCPC, MHSc

Dr. Shelly AuPhD, PMP, CCRP

Dr. Clyde MatavaMD, FRCPC

Dr. Monica Caldeira-KulbakasPhD, CCRP

Stephen SzetoMSc

Dr. Joseph FerenbokPhD

Schedule

07:3008:15

08:30

09:3010:1510:30

11:4512:3013:3014:4515:00

16:00

17:00

Registration and Breakfast

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Keynote Symposium

Walter Greenleaf, PhDHow Virtual and Augmented Reality Technology

Will Impact And Transform Healthcare

Exhibitor Demonstrations

Morning Refreshments

Advances in Medical Education AR/VR/MRSpeakers:

Fahad Alam, MD, FRCPC, MHScCurrent Theory And Applications For Use Of

Immersive Reality In Patient And Healthcare Education

Bill Kapralos, PhDEmbracing The Future Of Immersive Technologies

In Medical Education

John HellikerVirtual Humans in Medical Education

Sharks’ Den Competition

Lunch & Networking

Best Oral Presentations

Afternoon Refreshment Break & Exhibitor Demonstrations

Technical ShowcaseSpeakers:

Sonny Kohli, MD, FRCPC Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer at Cloud DX

Osamah Choudhry, MD Co-Founder & CEO of MediVis

Surgery, Augmented: Advancing Surgical Planning And

Navigation Using Mixed Reality

David Parker IoT Consultant, VR Health Advocate at Mount Sinai Hospital

Creating Virtual Last Wishes And A Digital Legacy For Palliative Patients

Plenary Speaker I

Ben Lok, PhDTraining Interpersonal Communication Skills Using Virtual Humans

Cocktails & Networking

Fahad Alam, MD, FRCPC, MHSClyde Matava, MD, FRCPC

Diane Michaud

Joseph Ferenbok, PhD

Bill Kapralos, PhD

Saturday April 7th, 2018Moderator

Schedule

07:3008:00

08:15

09:15

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ET

10:0010:3010:45

12:00

12:30

13:30

Registration and Breakfast

Welcome

Plenary Speaker II

Hunter Hoffman, PhDVirtual Reality Analgesia For Pediatric Patients

During Painful Medical Procedures

Immersive Reality in the Clinical RealmSpeakers:

Clyde Matava, MD, FRCPCUsing VR In A Hospital - Challenges And Lessons

Learnt From Early Adopters

Cindy Plunkett, METAR2: The Augmented Reality Amazing Race

Lisa Sokoloff, MS, CCC-SLPVirtual Humans in Medical Education

Exhibitor Demonstrations

Morning Refreshment Break & Exhibitor Demonstrations

Commercialization and Funding OpportunitiesSpeakers:

Joseph Ferenbok, PhD

Sonny Kohli, MD, FRCPC

Fahad Alam, MD, FRCPC, MHSc

Technical ShowcaseSpeakers:

Robert Amyot, MD, FRCPC President of CAE Healthcare, CEO and

President of Vimedix Virtual Medical Imaging Training Systems, Inc.

Mixed Reality In Healthcare Education: From Star Wars to Off-The-Shelf

Plenary Speaker III

Michael ThibodeauTrends That Will Define Realities In Healthcare

Awards & Closing Remarks

Fahad Alam, MD, FRCPC, MHSClyde Matava, MD, FRCPC

Fahad Alam, MD, FRCPC, MHS

Clyde Matava, MD, FRCPC

Organizing Committee of#REALMx2018

Sunday April 8th, 2018Moderator

Conference Speakers

Dr. Fahad Alam, MD, FRCPC, MHSc

Fahad Alam obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree at McMaster

University, completed his residency at the University of Toronto,

and has been a staff anesthesiologist at Sunnybrook Health

Sciences Centre since 2014. As a resident he took time away to do

a master’s degree in medical education through correspondence.

Simultaneously, he also completed a fellowship at the Wilson

Centre for Research in Medical Education and was part of the

Clinician Investigator Program at the University of Toronto. Through

these three avenues he worked with leading medical education

researchers from all over the globe.

Fahad is a Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute and the

Director of Research at the Sunnybrook Simulation Centre. His

research interests include medical education, technology

enhanced learning, simulation, eLearning and cognitive learning theories.

Dr. Osamah Choudhry, MD

Osamah Choudhry is co-founder and CEO of MediVis, the

mixed-reality medical company. He works as a senior resident in

neurosurgery at NYU Langone Medical Center. Dr. Choudhry

obtained his medical degree with distinction from Rutgers

University. He has published over 40 research articles in the

medical literature on neurosurgery and medical visualization.

He completed his undergraduate studies at Rutgers University in

2009 as part of an accelerated BA/MD program. He then went on

to complete his medical studies in 2012 at New Jersey Medical

School where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor

Society and Sigma Xi Research Honor Society.

Dr. Joseph Ferenbok, PhD

Dr. Joseph Ferenbok is currently the director of the Translational

Research Program in the Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of

Medicine. He is also the Co-Director of the Health Innovation Hub (H2i),

the Faculty of Medicine’s campus linked accelerator. Dr. Ferenbok’s

teaching interests centre on the translation and mobilization of knowl-

edge across disciplinary contexts using design-thinking strategies among

multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams. His teaching has spanned

media design, legal issues in developing technologies, innovation and

commercialization strategies and interdisciplinary collaboration for

knowledge translation and mobilization. He had also been exploring a

range of possibilities for training and applied research involving simula-

tions, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and 3D interaction, scanning

and printing. Dr. Ferenbok’s goal is to help students develop their ideas

and move knowledge from the classroom into real-world contexts.

Dr. Walter Greenleaf, PhD

Walter Greenleaf, PhD is a research neuroscientist and medical product

developer working at Stanford University. Walter is known internationally

as an early pioneer in digital medicine and virtual environment technolo-

gy. With over three decades of research and product development

experience in the field of medical virtual reality technology, Walter is

considered a leading authority in the field.

As a scientist and medical product developer, Walter’s focus has been on

computer-supported clinical products, with a specific focus on virtual

reality and digital health technology to treat Post-traumatic Stress

Disorder, Anxiety Disorders, Traumatic Brain Injury and Stroke, Addictions,

Autism, and other difficult problems in behavioral and physical medicine.

He has founded and managed several medical product companies,

including Pear Therapeutics, Virtually Better, InWorld Solutions, Cognitive

Leap, and Greenleaf Medical.

Dr. Robert Amyot, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Robert Amyot was appointed President, CAE Healthcare in April 2014.

Dr. Amyot was previously CAE Healthcare’s Vice President for Medical

Programs and Chief Medical Officer, a position he held since January

2012. For two years prior to that, he served as Director of Ultrasound

Education for CAE.

In 2006, Dr. Amyot initiated the VIMEDIX project and is the inventor of

the first simulator for transthoracic echocardiography to incorporate

virtual reality technology. He co-founded VIMEDIX Virtual Medical

Imaging Training Systems, which was acquired by CAE Healthcare in

January of 2010. The CAE VIMEDIX ultrasound simulator is now used in

leading medical centres around the world, including the Mayo Clinic,

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital.

A cardiologist echocardiographer, Dr. Amyot graduated from Université

de Montréal in 1992 with a degree in medicine. He completed his

residency at the Université de Montréal, and subsequently gained

fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

in internal medicine in 1995 and in cardiology in 1996. In 2007, he was

promoted to associate professor of medicine at the Université de

Montréal. He has published more than 60 book chapters, abstracts and

articles, and has been involved as an investigator in more than 30 clinical

trials, mostly in the field of echocardiography.

Conference Speakers

Mr. John Helliker, Sheridan College

John Helliker is Dean, Innovation and Engagement at Sheridan College,

which is establishing a regional cluster of research and development

focused on intelligent virtual humans within entertainment, healthcare,

and education. This initiative, which integrates computer graphics and

artificial intelligence expertise, is based on interdisciplinary collaboration

among researchers at Sheridan, as well as partnerships with industry,

community and external academic researchers. Support is also being

provided by the Ontario Centres of Excellence and the Natural Sciences

and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

John worked in film and television before joining Sheridan as a professor

teaching directing. He was founder of Sheridan’s Screen Industries

Research and Training Centre (SIRT), a federally designated Technology

Access Centre that currently primarily focuses on virtual reality. His

responsibilities as Dean include co-ordination of Sheridan’s five research

centres in support of industry and social innovation.

Dr. Bill Kapralos, PhD

Bill Kapralos is an Associate Professor at the University of Ontario

Institute of Technology. His current research interests include: serious

games, immersive technologies, multi-modal virtual environments, and

3D (spatial) sound generation for interactive virtual environments and

serious games. He is a past recipient of an IBM Centers for Advanced

Studies Faculty Award, past co-recipient of a Google Faculty Award, a

past recipient of a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

of Canada and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship to

conduct research in Japan, and a recent recipient of an Australian

government Executive Fellowship to conduct research in Australia.

Dr. Clyde Matava, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Clyde Matava is staff anesthesiologist at the Hospital for Sick Children,

Toronto. He is the Director of eLearning and Technology Innovations at the

University of Toronto’s Department of Anesthesia and the Director of

Informatics, Innovation and Technology in the Department of Anesthesia,

Hospital for Sick Children. Dr. Matava has created and designed several

apps, has won several teaching and innovation awards. His current work

focuses on the use of Artificial Intelligence, 3D printing and Virtual Reality,

and Social Media in medical education, patient education and clinical

care. His clinical interests include airway management and regional

anesthesia.

Dr. Sonny Kohli ,MD, FRCPC

Dr. Sonny Kohli is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Cloud DX.

Sonny is an attending Physician in Intensive Care and Internal Medicine

at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital and Assistant Clinical Professor

(Adjunct) of Medicine at McMaster University. From 2008 to 2009, he

was an Astronaut Candidate at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

Sonny is an alumnus of the International Space University, a trained

flight surgeon with the Canadian Forces, and was awarded a CSA

scholarship to Johnson Space Center & Wyle Labs. While studying at ISU,

he helped deploy the Image Reversal In Space (IRIS) experiment on the

International Space Station.

Dr. Ben Lok, PhD

Benjamin Lok is a Professor in the Computer and Information Sciences and

Engineering Department at the University of Florida and co-founder of

Shadow Health, Inc., an educational software company. His research

focuses on virtual humans and mixed reality in the areas of computer

graphics, virtual environments, and human-computer interaction.

Professor Lok received a UF Term Professorship (2017-2020), the Herbert

Wertheim College of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Award (2016), NSF

Career Award (2007-2012), and the UF ACM CISE Teacher of the Year

Award in 2005-2006. He and his students in the Virtual Experiences

Research Group have received Best Paper Awards at ACM I3D (Top 3, 2003)

and IEEE VR (2008). He currently serves on the Steering Committee of the

IEEE Virtual Reality conference, general chair of IEEE VR 2014 and IEEE VR

2013, and program co-chair of the ACM VRST 2009, IEEE Virtual Reality

2010, and IEEE VR 2011. Professor Lok is on the editorial board of the

Computer and Graphics and ACM Computing Surveys.

Dr. Hunter Hoffman, PhD

Hunter Hoffman began studying virtual reality 1993, shortly after his first

VR experience/demo fascinated him. Hoffman joined the Human Interface

Technology Lab or HITLab (founded by Tom Furness). An interdisciplinary

researcher, Hoffman is now Director of the Virtual Reality Analgesia

Research Center at the HITLab, a research scientist in mechanical

engineering in Eric Seibel’s Human Photonics Lab, and affiliate faculty in

Radiology and Psychology, and works half time at Shriners Children’s Burn

Center in Galveston Texas. Hoffman has led the design of several virtual

worlds, including SnowWorld pain distraction,the first virtual world

designed for pain distraction, which also became an immersive VR exhibit

curated by the Smithsonian museum). Hoffman’s SpiderWorld with tactile

augmentation was used to conduct the second case study ever published

on using VR for treating phobias. Hunter Hoffman was named one of the

top “fast 50” innovators of the next 10 years.

Conference Speakers

Ms. Diane Michaud

As a Faculty Liaison, Teaching Learning and Technology with U of

T’s Centre for Teaching Support and Innovation, Diane delivers

workshops and provides consultations related to academic and

collaborative technologies. Her current research focuses on

immersive virtual reality for learning in higher education.

Mr. David Parker

David Parker is the founder and head-wish-granter at Wishplay, a

non-profit that uses virtual reality to grant last wishes and

unattainable experiences for the dying and disabled. Previously

David consulted as a system architect bringing bleeding edge

technology to large national and global companies. He integrated

existing legacy systems with biometrics, empathy analysis, AI, or

Iot systems focusing on the retail, financial and telecommunica-

tions space. When not granting wishes he can be found out with

his family filming unique 360 VR environments and experiences

for patients.

Mr. Michael Thibodeau, Microsoft Canada

Michael Thibodeau leads Windows Mixed Reality and HoloLens

Marketing at Microsoft Canada. With a passion for cutting-edge

technology, Michael’s mandate is to inspire and collaborate with

customers, partners, disrupters and innovators across Canada to

help them unlock their potential and transform their solutions

with the power of mixed reality (AR, VR and MR) across HoloLens

and OEM devices.

Widely valued for his passion, collaboration, and creative approach,

Michael has held a variety of positions including business manage-

ment, operations and marketing during his 6 year tenure at

Microsoft Canada. He believes technology enhances the world and

he is committed helping Canadian customers re-imagine the

future of their business and empowering them to achieve more.

Ms. Lisa Sokoloff, MS, CCC-SLP

Lisa Sokoloff is the Manager, Training & Simulation at Baycrest’s

Centre for Education and Knowledge Exchange in Aging. She

received her undergraduate degree in Speech Pathology at the

University of Western Ontario (1987) and her Master of Science

(Speech Pathology) degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madi-

son (1989). She is a registered Speech-Language Pathologist with

the College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists of

Ontario. Lisa has worked as a Speech-Language Pathologist with

adults and geriatrics since 1989. She has published and presented

internationally in the areas of speech pathology, swallowing

disorders, education and VR in healthcare. Lisa has Lecturer status

in the Department of Speech Pathology, Faculty of Medicine,

University of Toronto and also teaches at Humber College in the

OTA/PTA program. Her experience in VR includes being co-investi-

gator on a project using VR Dementia Simulations to increase

empathy.

Ms. Cindy Plunkett, MET

Cindy Plunkett is the Manager, eLearning and Educational Technologies

at Baycrest Health Sciences and the Centre for Aging and Brain Health

Innovation. She is also an executive director of the eACH Conference, a

lecturer in the graduate studies programs for family and community

medicine at the University of Toronto, and a sessional lecturer in the

education faculty at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

Cindy is currently pursuing her PhD in Education specializing in online

learning and educational technology.

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