Find Your Place in the Emerging Immersive Education Universe

Scholarly education has long been cemented in the broad sharing of knowledge, coupled with hands-on application to master understanding. Educational experience has benefitted from the ever-increasing impact of innovative tools and technology. The increased adoption of immersive technologies –augmented, virtual, and extended realities –promote opportunities for further dynamic, engaged, and connected learning. Across the education paradigm, immersive experiences are enabling learners to apply knowledge like never before: taking a walk through the human heart to hear it beat and watch it function, engaging with real-life patient scenarios to navigate a chaotic emergency room, landing on alien planets to discover unimaginable surroundings, and collaborating with remote peers as if they were in the same room. In this session, a cross-section of experts across the scholarly education ecosystem will share first-hand insights regarding the advantages, development, and applications of AR-VR-XR technologies. The audience will also have the opportunity to engage in a live immersive experience. || Learning Level: Mixed Learning || Speakers: Diane M. Harnish; Bonnie Gruber; Frank Sculli; Cory J Heizenrader; Leslie Hammersmith; Paul Zemaitis; Angela Vasa

SSP Annual Meeting Session Learning Level

Mixed-Learning

Publication Date

2022 | Jun 02

44th Annual Meeting (2022)

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“Building a More Connected Scholarly Community” The last 19+ months have been a fascinating contradiction, making us feel both painfully disconnected and also perhaps more bonded than ever before. How can we take the strengths we already possessed as a community, fold in lessons learned during the pandemic, and aim for being an even stronger, broader, and more connected community? Our Annual Meeting brings together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, and countless others with a communal interest and stake in the dissemination of scholarly information. We look forward to the 44th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to reconnect and to connect anew.

Angela Vasa

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Director of Isolation and Quarantine, Nebraska Medicine

Ms. Vasa’s nursing experience spans 11 years and includes delivery of care for patients with highly infectious diseases, solid organ transplant and critical care; as well as education, infection control, and leadership positions. She is currently one of the Nurse Managers in the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit at Nebraska Medicine and Director of Quarantine Services in the National Quarantine Unit in Omaha, Nebraska. Angela serves as faculty for the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC) for whom she is the current Director of Readiness Consultations and Metrics Development. In addition, her recent work includes developing readiness metrics for healthcare coalitions in response to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) grant for Regional Disaster Healthcare Response System strengthening.

Bonnie Gruber

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Managing Partner, Delta Think

Bonnie Gruber is the Managing Director, Market Research Practice Director, and a Partner at Delta Think. She has extensive experience in product strategy, marketing, pricing, and market research. She works with clients to help them understand their customers’ needs and, based on that understanding, to create or refresh individual products, product portfolios, services, and partnerships. Bonnie is an expert in market research methodologies. Throughout her career, she has led many efforts to transform previously print or print-native content into valued tools and offerings. Since joining Delta Think in 2012, she has continued to lead numerous customer insight initiatives and assisted clients in transforming new insights into compelling and successful products and services. Bonnie has more than twenty years of experience in publishing and technology, and has held senior positions in product strategy, marketing and market development, customer research, and product management. Bonnie holds a B.A. in economics from The University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from George Washington University School of Business.

Cory J Heizenrader

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CEO, EducationXR

Diane M. Harnish

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Senior Consultant, Delta Think Inc.

Frank Sculli

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CEO, BioDigital

Frank Sculli is the CEO of BioDigital, a biomedical visualization company focused on transforming the way people understand health and the human body using the world’s first virtual body platform. He founded the software company in 2014, after spending over a decade consulting on how 3D and information technology can be used to improve education and clinical workflows. Frank’s personal passion for how technology will revolutionize the way we understand scientific subjects is the foundation for the company's focus on health literacy and the driver of continued innovation. With extensive experience in software development and management, he has consulted to organizations such as Memorial-Sloan Kettering, JP Morgan Chase, Pfizer, Pennsylvania Treasury Department and Honeywell. Frank holds a graduate degree in Engineering from Columbia University and received his bachelor’s from the University of Michigan.

Leslie Hammersmith

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Assistant Dean for Technology Enhanced Instruction, Academic Affairs and Graduate Medical Education, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria

Leslie Hammersmith is the Assistant Dean for Technology Enhanced Instruction at the College of Medicine at Peoria. Leslie has over 25 years of experience in higher education, curriculum development, online learning, educational technologies and faculty development. Her priorities at the College of Medicine include assessing the faculty’s familiarity with the range of pedagogical methods and technological resources available in Graduate and Undergraduate Medical Education, devising appropriate resources and workshops to foster and promote pedagogical innovation, and advising on the use of classroom and online technologies. Her current projects include an initiative providing a Faculty Fellows Program on Technology in Medical Education (TiME), which provides a community of practice for medical educators pursuing scholarly educational research and using evidence-based teaching practices to create effective immersive learning environments.

Paul Zemaitis

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Director, Live Events, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Paul Zemaitis, MBA, MPH, has over ten years in the medical and orthopedic fields. He has held roles in research, quality improvement/patient safety, regulatory/legislative affairs, health policy, practice management, and education. At the AAOS, he is currently responsible for delivering innovative educational experiences and provides leadership, strategic planning, and business oversight to drive the educational strategy. Paul’s volunteer work includes serving on the MPH Steering Committee at Loyola University Chicago’s Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health and on the Marketing and Communications Commission for the Village of Winfield. Paul’s volunteer work includes serving on the MPH Steering Committee at Loyola University Chicago’s Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health and on the Marketing and Communications Commission for the Village of Winfield.