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January 25, 2024 46 mins

Dr. Todd Chang, Virtual Reality in Healthcare Simulation Research.

Season 2. Episode 1

Dr. Todd Chang is based at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). Todd is the Medical Director at Las Madrinas Simulation Center at CHLA and is a Children’s Emergency Senior Physician. Todd is also an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Southern California. He has stood past and present on a number of international and local boards in regards to simulation and education. We are incredibly thrilled to have Todd as a guest on SimNurseNZ in this episode and hope you will enjoy the time spent with him as much as we did.

Todd has a passion for advancing healthcare education and innovation. He specialises in the field of virtual reality (VR) healthcare simulation. Todd is a world leading expert in this field of education and he has made significant contributions to development and implementation of VR technology in healthcare staff training, patient care and research related to VR.

Alison, Marie and Erin are absolutely thrilled to interview Todd on this SimNurseNZ podcast episode about research in healthcare VR simulation. Today we discuss virtual reality and Todd’s experiences with both this and research on this subject. He is incredibly kind, funny and fun in this interview. We are incredibly grateful to Todd for sharing such wonderful resources with us to encourage us all to venture into the world of VR healthcare simulation.

 

Some video links are included below about Todd’s work in Virtual Reality in the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Emergency Department.

  1. https://smex12-5-en-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fyoutu.be%2fjzxvyFWZAoc%3fsi%3d1S85wslrcCBO%5fl2t&umid=031c7308-b274-4ea3-93aa-89cce1662564&auth=9b524f228cf218be85c76e75f89997ec2caa72a4-747cae26f289881baf6cc49b0263d44f1e9797c6
  2. https://smex12-5-en-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fyoutu.be%2f28yNoN%2dpZD4%3fsi%3dnKzV%5fQtFouOOojDr&umid=031c7308-b274-4ea3-93aa-89cce1662564&auth=9b524f228cf218be85c76e75f89997ec2caa72a4-4370b16418e9892c6af268cf7cce304fc35a0bf9

Todd is happy to be contacted via email regarding any enquiries from this SimNurseNZ podcast episode:

dr.toddchang@gmail.com

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This podcast was funded and made possible by the Douglas Charitable Trust and The Starship Foundation. We give many thanks for their generosity in making this happen.

This podcast was produced by Denish Kumar.

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