Rapid Prototyping of Surgical Simulators using Open Source Simulation Software

August 28-30, 2006
Stanford University - SUMMIT


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Speaker Profile

Dr. Kevin Montgomery

Kevin Montgomery Ph.D is the Technical Director of the National Biocomputation Center at Stanford University.  The center is a joint NASA-Stanford Center applying the latest technologies in computation, visualization, and simulation in medicine and surgery.  Research projects include systems for computer-based surgical planning, intraoperative assistance systems, surgical simulators, anatomical atlases, as well as wireless telemedicine and telemetry.

Before joining Stanford, he led teams at the NASA Ames Research Center to develop systems for 3D reconstruction and visualization of biomedical imaging data and at the Hewlett-Packard Company on networking protocol design and implementation.  He earned his PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of California.

He regularly serves on several study/review sections for NIH. NSF, and other granting agencies, as well as advises consults with several small high-tech companies in the Silicon Valley.

 

 
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