2019 XR Symposium
The 2019 XR Symposium will include virtual reality perspectives from trainers, designers, creators and psychologists to discuss trends and potential for mixed reality technology, followed by a Q&A panel.
Keynote Speakers
MaryKate Mahoney
Global Head of VR for Healthcare at HP Inc.
Driving innovation at the intersection of industry and technology, MaryKate Mahoney, Global Head of VR for Healthcare at HP Inc. works to enable cutting edge capabilities of virtual reality across the healthcare spectrum. Striving to deliver proven clinically effective solutions for both clinicians and patients, MaryKate drives the strategy, portfolio and Go-to-Market for virtual reality solutions. This includes identifying key software developers and delivering new experiences that will improve the quality of care worldwide on the best compute platforms. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Centre College in Kentucky and received her M.B.A. at Washington University in St. Louis.
Tom Krummel
Co-Director, Stanford Biodesign
Emile Holman Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine
Throughout his career, Tom has been a pioneer and an innovator. While just a surgical resident, he formed what was then the world’s second ECMO team. He helped “jump start” the study of the cellular and biochemical mechanisms of scarless repair in the fetus; his work has been funded by the NIH for 18 years. He is the recipient of over $3 million in research funding over his career. Over the last 20 years, he has been a pioneer in the application of information technology to simulation-based surgical training and surgical robotics. Tom, along with Dr. Kenneth Salisbury, is the recipient of one of the first NIH Phased Innovation R21/R33 programs to develop a collaborative simulation-based surgical training system. For his work in this arena and in surgical robotics, he has received two ComputerWorld Smithsonian Awards. For more than 15 years, he has partnered with Dr. Paul Yock to direct the Biodesign Program at Stanford.s
Victoria Interrante
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota
Professor Interrante’s research focuses on applying insights from visual perception and cognition to the development of more effective virtual reality experiences and the more effective communication of complex information through visual imagery. In this work, she enjoys collaborating with colleagues in a wide variety of fields, from architectural design and neuropsychology to engineering and medicine.
Dr. Interrante is a recipient of the 1999 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, “the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers”, and a 2001-2003 McKnight Land-Grant Professorship from the University of Minnesota.
Dan Graham
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Colorado School of Public Health at Colorado State University
Dr. Graham’s research centers on promoting healthy eating and physical activity. His work investigates psychological, social, environmental, and policy factors that support and undermine these health behaviors, and he is currently moving in to the world of VR to try to better understand the environmental factors that promote or hinder physical activity, particularly active transportation (e.g., walking or biking to work, to stores, restaurants, etc.). Dr. Graham received the 2017 Early Career Investigator Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine in recognition of his research.
Kelly Curl
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Colorado State University
Professor Curl’s research is focused on augmented reality. Through the construction of an augmented reality sandbox, sand is molded and shaped to educate students on site engineering through topographical change, hydrology on site, and slope analysis. As a designer, her interest also lies in VR so that designers and clients can be immersed and transported within a landscape design and study spatial relationships and landscape prototypes. Curl is a recipient of the 2015 Charles N. Shepardson Faculty Teaching Award.