XR Healthcare: XR in Medicine in the Era of Precision Medicine

Welcome to the Stanford Healthcare Innovation Lab's XR Healthcare community event.
Our speaker this week was Alexandros Sigaras, assistant professor of Research in Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. In this talk, Alex led an inspiring and interactive session around VR applications in healthcare. He introduced us to new VR tools that visualize cancer gene interaction networks, how Cornell is leveraging mixed reality in the lab to increase safety and productivity, new co-working abilities in the VR space, and more! ​
About the speaker:
Our speaker this week was Alexandros Sigaras, assistant professor of Research in Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. In this talk, Alex led an inspiring and interactive session around VR applications in healthcare. He introduced us to new VR tools that visualize cancer gene interaction networks, how Cornell is leveraging mixed reality in the lab to increase safety and productivity, new co-working abilities in the VR space, and more!
Alex is an Assistant Professor of Research in Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. He develops software solutions for the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine and Institute for Computational Biomedicine with projects spanning over healthcare system design, LIMS, and pipeline design for computational genomic analysis. His research interest focuses on data visualization and interaction of healthcare and genomic data using new emerging technologies, including augmented and virtual reality such as Hololens, Oculus Rift, and Google Glass. A Fulbright scholar recipient, Alex earned his master's in Computer Science from Columbia University. While at Columbia, Alex worked as a researcher at Prof. Allen's Robotics Lab, focusing on medical robotics for surgery and brain-computer interfaces. As an undergrad, Alex gave numerous invited talks on his research to universities and conferences, including the prime minister of Greece and chairman of Microsoft Bill Gates. Parallel to his studies, Alex worked at Microsoft's education division, helping universities transition to the cloud and as a technical editor in a computer magazine.
Follow Alex:
Twitter: @AlexSigaras
LinkedIn: / alexsigaras
Website: alex.sigaras.com/
About Weil Cornell Medicine:
Weill Cornell Medicine is among the nation's top-ranked medical and graduate schools, striving for excellence in its education of the world's future healthcare leaders. Research by faculty and graduate students at Weill Cornell Medicine is collaborative, groundbreaking, and patient-focused.
Follow Weill Cornell:
Twitter: @WeillCornell
LinkedIn: / weillcornellmedicine
Website: weill.cornell.edu/
About SHIL:
The Stanford Healthcare Innovation Lab is led by the Chair of the Department of Genetics at Stanford University, School of Medicine. We want to make precision health accessible to everyone on the planet, by leveraging cutting-edge advancements in biomedicine and computer science.
Follow SHIL:
Twitter: @StanfordHIL Instagram: @stanford_shil LinkedIn: / stan. . Website: innovations.stanford.edu/