Over Labor Day weekend I had the opportunity to run a panel on Video Games and Medicine at Pax Prime – the largest video game convention in the world. It was a really fun panel (and a great convention). We brought SimMan and LapSim with us and after the presentations pulled up volunteers from the audience to be a surgeon for the day. One of my daughters was in the audience, who had never heard me speak publicly before. I was especially happy about the panel because she told me afterwards “Dad, I never knew you were so funny.” That’s the kind of feedback you like to hear from your teenager.
The video of the presentation is below, and the presentation itself is available as a Prezi.
I was interviewed about the panel by All Things D, which resulted in a nice feature: “Why the University of Washington Wants Its Surgeons to Play Videogames.”
Andrew Wright MD 