Aligned Management Associates | From Feburary 9-12, Aligned Management Associates will host the 18th annual MMVR conference at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel in Newport Beach, California. The goal of MMVR is to support the development and adoption of advanced medical technologies for medical care and education, through communication and collaboration among scientists, engineers, physicians, surgeons, educators, students, military, government, and industry. The NextMed portion of MMVR highlights research outside the IT-focused core, expanding the dialogue into biology, materials science, and the micro/nano realms. One focus of this year’s NextMed is plasma medicine, an extraordinary technology that promises to transform surgery, wound care, microbial control, and other applications.

Since 1992, when it debuted as the “Medicine Meets Virtual Reality” conference, MMVR has served as a forum for researchers harnessing IT advances for the benefit of patient diagnosis and care, medical education, and procedural training. Its curriculum has since evolved beyond virtual reality; it now presents a wide spectrum of biomedical innovation. MMVR is valued for provoking singular interactions among developers and end-users. Plans are now also under way for TATRC to showcase key research projects from its funded portfolio at MMVR.
Conference presentations offer a broad range of leading-edge research in:

• Biomedical simulation, modeling, and rendering
• Data visualization and fusion
• Imaging devices and methods
• Robotics
• Haptics
• Plasma medicine
• Sensors and sensor grids
• Human-computer interfaces
• Medical intelligence and mobile health networks
• Projection systems
• Virtual and augmented reality
• Learning and technology
• Simulator design and validation
• Surgical registration and navigation
• Psychotherapy tools
• Physical rehabilitation tools
• Remote and battlefield care
• Serious games
• Wearable and implantable electronics
• Patient and public health monitoring and education