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AIA Project of the Month: Virtual surgery center offers real training for doctors

When you enter the Seattle Science Foundation's grand waiting room only glass walls stand between you and a surgery suite. It's all there — the gurneys, the lights, the plethora of screens as well as many mechanical and electronic devices. Oh, and real doctors are everywhere.

It looks more like a TV studio than a hospital and, in a way, it is. There are no real patients. Instead, it's a kind of virtual medical world, where doctors from around the globe meet and exchange cutting-edge ideas, technical knowledge and practical information. A typical event is a three-day medical conference on new techniques in surgery.

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Medical Simulation Corporation Announces Partnership With Seattle Science Foundation

Medical Simulation Corporation (MSC) announces a new partnership with the Seattle Science Foundation (SSF) to provide simulation training and education services to healthcare professionals and medical industry representatives at the SSF world-class training facility in Seattle, Washington.

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Congressman Adam Smith requests 2009 funding for medical research at SSF

Congressman Adam Smith requests 2009 funding for Seattle Science Foundation’s Blood-Brain Barrier Research. The proposal requestes funding to enhance the research facility and teleconference center for the more effective and efficient exchange of scientific findings and data with other researchers around the world.

U.S. Consul General Welcomes Participants of a DVC with Seattle Science Foundation

On April 25, U.S. Consul General Thomas Armbruster opened the first DVC with Seattle Science Foundation arranged for the medical community of Vladivostok. The event was devoted to presentations of the Seattle Science Foundation (SSF), its medical education programs, and surgical robotic applications. Twenty doctors -- including surgeons and gynecologists who represented 6 Vladivostok hospitals and medical centers -- took part in the program. Many specialists expressed their interest in continuing and developing contacts with the SSF independently and arranging similar video bridges on different medical subjects.