3D ORGANON SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

… about the implementation of immersive VR and AR technologies in remote learning and education. He is the founder and CEO of 3D ORGANON, a multi-awarded startup venture that specializes in 3D and VR anatomy medical education. In 2018 Dr. Raikos established a strategic partnership with HTC and VIVE, leading corporations in VR headset manufacturing and mobile technologies. In 2021 he established a strategic alliance with VIA, a world-leading manufacturer of semiconductors and artificial intelligence services.

His constant pursuit of excellence and consistent dedication to innovation brought SKYLECT to life. Dr. Raikos is inspired to make SKYLECT the world’s top immersive education metaverse.

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• Director, Division of Anatomical Sciences UMMS
• Director, Anatomical Donation Program, UMMS
• Director of the Plastination Lab, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor

… XR medical anatomy platform. She is also striving for SKYLECT to become the leading immersive education metaverse to promote the digital transformation of educational institutions, businesses, and professionals.

… 21st century.  He has appreciated the importance of delivering teaching to colleagues at advanced high-quality patient-centered care.  Dr. Boyne Bellew has completed a regional anesthesia fellowship in Australia.  The regional anesthesia teaching program and EDRA diploma help his patients to achieve improved anesthesia and pain management with quicker recovery times.

He is the director of the regional anesthesia program, delivering an ESRA accredited program, teaching senior anesthetists the various techniques of regional anesthesia.  As part of this program, he is also researching all aspects of regional anesthesia.  For his teaching, he uses virtual reality technology and is currently engaged in research in new and expanding fields of medicine.

… La Trobe University. He currently co-coordinates a first-year course, with more than 2,300 students over 5 campuses (with both Online and Blended Instances). Aaron has published and presented teaching and learning strategies encompassing assessment weighting, blended learning, team-teaching, and implementing Digital Technologies into the anatomy curricula. He has achieved Fellow (FHEA) status in recognition of his excellence in teaching and learning support within Higher Education.

…  mainly working in acute specialties with a focus on intensive care.

… of health-related disciplines.  Dr. Heath McGowan‘s project was a runner-up in the 2020 ITnews Benchmark Awards for excellence. Recent projects include the implementation of digital technologies (augmented reality and virtual reality) in the anatomy curriculum, team-teaching, and improving online teaching during COVID. Heath has recently been invited to become a founding member of the Australia wide Digital Anatomy Network.

…Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA) and Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetist (FFPMRCA) with over a decade of anaesthesia and regional anaesthesia experience.

Dr Malik has trained in London, in world-renowned teaching hospitals including Moorfields Eye Hospital. Royal Marsden, Royal London, Royal Free, UCLH and St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington. His special interests include ultrasound guided pain interventions alongside regional anaesthesia – with the EDRA diploma.  His skills in perioperative pain management help to improve both the patient’s journey and experience.

Dr Malik understands the importance of integrating clinically orientated anatomy training for regional anaesthesia and pain medicine. He has introduced VR Anatomy training into the Medical Curriculum and his Regional Anaesthesia Fellowship at Wexham Park and Heatherwood hospitals. It is a privilege to have him as Scientific Advisory Board member for 3D Organon for Regional Anaesthesia and  the Pain Medicine Chapter.

She has nearly a decade of experience as a curriculum director and as an anatomist and former stem cell biologist and sees herself as a medical sciences educator.

… A key role is to ensure a harmonized transition of graduates into the workforce, as a member of many of the medical dean’s sub-committees.  She is aware of the national discussions and challenges faced by future health professionals. Jo has recently been involved with several webinars and international conferences and has the confidence to engage in required promotional activities related to these tasks.

She has nearly a decade of experience as a curriculum director and as an anatomist and former stem cell biologist and sees herself as a medical sciences educator.

Currently, Dr. Lida Kourita serves as the Chief Business Officer for neuroFit, a NASA spin-off, leveraging eye-tracking technology to create a vital sign for brain health. As the

National Science Foundation I-Corps Entrepreneurial Lead for neuroFit, she was co-awarded a

$25K grant to conduct 100 customer discovery interviews and validate product market fit through Lean Launch Pad methodology in 2018. She pitched with the CEO and was selected as a hot-desking team at Berkeley’s Skydeck accelerator, top 5 Forbes accelerators in 2019

(hot-desking cohort-top 7% globally). neuroFit also received funding from Jumpstart Foundry, was part of NVIDIA’s inception program and was awarded a $300K NIH SBIR/STTR Phase I grant for Alzheimer’s disease and established collaborations with research institutions such as UCSF, UCSD, the VA at Stanford whilst also an industry partner at the Berkeley HealthTech CoLab.

Most recently neuroFit has been recently selected to participate in the FedTech accelerator and was awarded a US Army SBIR phase I. Prior to this role she was the Strategy & Clinical Development Lead for Naring Heallth. Naring Health was a precision medicine company incubated by Khosla Ventures. Finally, Dr. Lida Kourita, through her passion for fueling entrepreneurship was selected to serve as an industry mentor at the Hacking for Defense ecosystem at Stanford where she mentored team Cricket on solving national security issues with the Lean Launchpad methodology and the Fung Institute of Engineering Leadership at Berkeley where she mentored teams “Bright mobile” and team “neuroFit”. She served as the World Business Angel Forum’s (WBAF) International Partner for Greece, from February 2021 to 2023, serving in the Global Women Leaders Committee as an Angel Investor and Startup Advisor. The WBAF is an affiliated partner of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI). During this role Dr. Kourita advised multiple startups on product and go to market strategy.

She obtained her Executive MBA from Berkeley-Haas in 2016, and was selected to represent Haas at the B-School Disrupt event, TechCrunch, San Francisco in 2018. She practiced medicine for 8 years, trained at London School of Pediatrics and obtained her Membership and Diploma with the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health. She was selected into the Paired Learning Program, a leadership development initiative by the London Leadership Academy, was Media Spokesperson for the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health and a High Fidelity Pediatric Simulation Facilitator with SCAMPS at Anglia Ruskin University, East England. During her training she was involved in a variety of Child Public Health Projects, using Big Data for Trauma Prevention at Barts in partnership with Prof. Allyson Pollock & Obesity Strategy with Child Public Health Expert, Prof. Mitch Blair. She holds an MD degree from University of Siena, Italy and is of Greek origin.

… Police Scientific Council and Dubai Future Council on Community Security. His passions are both teaching (immunology, microbiology among others) and scientific research in molecular biology. In his latest work, Dr. Tajouri has led research on Public Health and Biosecurity showing mobile phones are contaminated with a plethora of viable microbes and may act therefore as Trojan horses for disease dissemination. He actively urges billions of phone users worldwide to sanitize their devices daily since “mobile phones are like people’s third (never-clean) hand that once touched will negate our hand washing hygiene”.

…  Programme on Anatomical Research. Her editorial collaborations are: Assistant Editor at the European Journal of Anatomy and a reviewer in Surgical Radiologic Anatomy and Clinical Anatomy.

María Teresa Vázquez Osorio is an honorary member at the Mexican Society of Anatomy and a corresponding member of the British Association of Clinical Anatomy.

… for the first and second-year English-medium students for the past 10 years. She is responsible for the facilitation of international cooperation with overseas universities. Her research interest is in medical education, virtual reality in anatomy, and immunotoxicology. Her thesis concerns the topic of xenobiotic impact on the organs of the immune system, in particular the thymus and spleen. She is an active member of the American Association for Anatomy.

…  field of immersive technologies for learning and is the President of the Canadian Chapter of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) and Co-chair of the Champions for Higher Education in XR (CHEX). Rob has a Bachelor of Health Sciences Degree in Paramedicine from Victoria in University in Melbourne, Australia, and a Master of Educational Technology (M.E.T.) from the University of British Columbia.

He is a published author, researcher, blogger, podcaster and speaks at conferences across Canada and internationally.

… at the Andres Bello University (UNAB). Previously, Rodolfo Paredes was an Undergraduate Director of UNAB, Director and Academic Secretary of Veterinary Medicine School. His research work in Parasite-host interactions and immune response against parasites, innovation in medical devices using an extracellular matrix, and Medical Education has been financed by national and international research grants and published in several journals.

… programs for pediatrics, patients with terminal illnesses, special needs, geriatrics, and refugees. Dr. Sana continues with her contributions to research and building industry standards which won her highly prestigious recognitions and awards globally, as she educates about the successful Implementation Framework of Immersive Technologies, including sensitive issues in innovations such as building awareness, best practices, and regulations.

Professor Nalla’s academic career in higher education commenced in January 1994 when he was responsible for the establishment of a Human Anatomy facility (comprising a dissection hall, an anatomy museum, a histology microscopy laboratory and an osteology laboratory).

He has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate levels across all the fields in Human Anatomy (morphological anatomy including neuroanatomy, osteology and surface anatomy; histology and cell biology; developmental biology/embryology; human biology including physical anthropology) and utilises multiple anatomy technologies (e.g. Anatomy VR/AR/XR Apps) and web-based institutional student and staff portals to facilitate the knowledge transfer.

as a complementary tool to enhance her students’ inclusive learning experience. Sharmila conducts virtual sessions for medical students at the University of Oxford. She has received teaching and project awards for her use of virtual reality in anatomy education. Sharmila works closely with the Digital Innovation Lab team at the University of Oxford, where she tests 3D organon features and collects student feedback to improve their learning experience. Additionally, she collaborates with Oxford’s Brookes University to share her knowledge with other anatomists and has been a part of introducing 3D organon in their teaching.

… of increasing patient satisfaction, experience, and safety. He is also a Human-centered approach advocate and teaches Design Thinking to undergraduates, postgraduates and medical professionals. He also facilitates Design Thinking workshops and projects with medical professionals, designers, and engineers to equip them with skills that make them actors of change.

… private dental practice in Moscow.

Dr. Yuriy Vasil’ev gives lectures and dissection workshops for students studying general medicine, pediatrics, and dentistry. For more than 15 years he has been engaged in improving the effectiveness and safety of local anesthesia in the maxillofacial region, as well as education issues using augmented and virtual reality, including various interactive anatomical tables and VR technologies.

Dr. Yuriy Vasil’ev and his colleagues from Sechenov University translated 3D Organon platform into the Russian language, so to use it for all training purposes at a national level.