New worlds in medical visualization: transforming care and service by embodying a first-person patient perspective through immersive technology
After graduating from UNC Chapel Hill with a B.S. in public health, Carrie spent two years working as a Peace Corps health education volunteer in the Dominican Republic. There she fell in love with the way visual communication tools have the unique potential to cross cultural, language and educational barriers. Following that time, Carrie worked as primary caregiver to her mother, whose diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's disease opened Carrie's eyes to the needs of caregivers and the aging-services workforce.
Carrie completed a Master of Science in Biomedical Visualization at the University of Illinois Chicago in 2016. Though she initially was enrolled in a Ph.D. program to continue studying the cognitive science of embodied cognition and healthcare education, the program's funding was cut. So, Carrie founded Embodied Labs and pursued commercialization of work that originated from her graduate master's thesis. Since then, her company’s work has been featured by The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the History Channel, and national CBS television show The Doctors. Embodied Labs has won national and international awards from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the AARP, OpenIDEO, and the US Department of Education.
In her talk, New worlds in medical visualization: transforming care and service by embodying a first-person patient perspective through immersive technology, Carrie will share how Embodied Labs delivers person-centred education to formal and informal caregivers of older adults and her unexpected journey into entrepreneurship as a first-time founder of a tech startup.
Date and Time:
March 12, 2021
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
(One-hour presentation with question-and-answer session)
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https://vimeo.com/526893899/6674573c93
The road less travelled–BMC Speakers Series 2021 full program: https://bmc.med.utoronto.ca/news-events/2021/1/31/the-road-less-travelledbmc-speaker-series-2021
Carrie Shaw works at the intersection of health education and virtual reality storytelling. She is the CEO and founder of Embodied Labs, a venture-backed growth stage startup and immersive training and wellness platform for professional and family caregivers. Follow @carrieonshaw on Twitter and @embodiedlabs on Twitter and Instagram.
Delivering person-centered education through immersive technology. Image credit: Embodied Labs