Virtual breast cancer conference in Italy

At a time when the grid was awaiting developments on the 'Openspace' mess M Linden took the time out to appear at a virtual breast cancer conference held simultaneously from Modena into the Secondlife Virtual Cancer Institute.
M Linden addressed the conference. He spoke enthusiastically about the important work this group is doing and about the increasing use that is being made of Second Life by health care providers and educators.
The Policlinic of the University of Modena is hosting the real life three-day "Meet the Professor" advanced course on breast cancer which will be streamed into Second Life.
SL residents can follow the conference in real time at the Virtual Cancer Institute on the ISN Visions sim, Thursday and Friday from Midnight to 10.30 am SLT.
Gabriel Hortobagyi, Chairman of the Department of Breast Medical Oncology at the M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, TX and Pier Franco Conte, Director of the Department of Oncology and Haematology at the University of Modena, Italy, are the joint directors of the Advanced Course on Breast Cancer being held this week in Modena. As DrHortobagyi Bravin and PierfrancoConte Blinker they came in world and answered questions put to them by avatar physicians, the press, and other interested people at an open Q&A session at the Virtual Cancer Institute.
The professors, who answered questions live from Modena, were enthusiastic about the potential of holding conferences in Second Life and for people to 'attend' from different countries without having to travel. Italian physicians are able to get Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits for attending the course in Modena. Although virtual attendance does not, yet, qualify for CME credits, they foresee that this is a real possibility in the future once the practical issues are overcome.
The conference still has two days to run. The full program can be downloaded at: http://isnvirtualworlds.com/VirtualCancerInstitute/download/program.pdf
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Many Thanks to Poppy Zabelin
Read her Blog post on this HERE