Date: Wednesday, April 23rd, 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm, EDT
Over the past three months, PRF – alongside its other weekly offerings – has been producing a featured content series titled, “Investigating Virtual Reality for Pain Management: Past, Present, and Future,” which has been made possible thanks to a generous grant from the MAYDAY Fund. Throughout the series, we’ve examined the genesis and acceleration of immersive technologies for pain management, discussed future directions for the field, and explored the role that virtual reality could play across all healthcare.
For this special webinar, virtual and mediated reality researcher Tasha Stanton, PhD, will interview Walter Greenleaf, PhD, a neuroscientist and medical technology developer at Stanford University.
As a leading authority in the field of digital medicine and medical virtual reality technology, Dr. Greenleaf will connect the past, present, and future of virtual reality for acute and chronic pain management.
Participants include:
— Walter Greenleaf, PhD, Stanford University, California, USA
— Tasha Stanton, PhD, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia (host)
About the Speaker
Walter Greenleaf, PhD is a behavioral neuroscientist and a medical technology developer working at Stanford University. With over three decades of research and development experience in the field of digital medicine and medical virtual reality technology, Walter is considered the leading authority in the field. He has designed and developed numerous clinical systems over the last thirty-five years, including products in the fields of: surgical simulation, 3D medical visualization, telerehabilitation, clinical informatics, clinical decision support, point-of-care clinical data collection, ergonomic evaluation technology, automatic sleep-staging systems, psychophysiological assessment, and simulation-assisted rehabilitation technologies, as well as products for behavioral medicine.
About the Host
Tasha Stanton, PhD, is an associate professor at the University of South Australia and leads the Persistent Pain Research Group at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and is co-Director of IIMPACT in Health at The University of South Australia, Adelaide. She is a clinical pain neuroscientist, with original training as a physiotherapist. Her research group works closely with consumers and with clinicians to identify real-world problems and devise new solutions. She has a specific interest in chronic pain, osteoarthritis, pain science education, and novel technologies, such as virtual and mediated reality, to enhance exercise engagement.