Design Team
Instructional Team + Engineering Team + Additional Collaborators
Instructional
Team
Instructional
Designer
Lucie Isenhart, M.A.
is an instructional design
consultant; she coordinates participatory design efforts of instructional design
teams and she provides written design documentation for educational technology
projects. She has consulted on both higher education projects (at both universities
and community colleges) as well as elementary education projects. She will coordinate
and document the first year design efforts of the pilot curriculum.
Content Experts
Ruth Heisler,
M.A. is senior Instructor for
the University of Colorado-Boulder human anatomy and comparative vertebrate
anatomy. She will participate as a content expert on the design and the development
of the pilot knee curriculum and will pilot the curriculum with her students.
She will also supervise a graduate assistant who will assist her in delivering
this technology to students.
Nora Hebert, Ph.D. is a faculty member at Red Rocks Community College in the Department of Natural Sciences. She will participate as a content expert on the design and the development of the pilot knee curriculum and will pilot the curriculum with her students.
Ann Repka, Ph.D. is adjunct Instructor of Biology at Red Rocks Community College. She has been teaching anatomy for the past fifteen years. She will participate as a content expert on the design and the development of the pilot knee curriculum.
Victor M. Spitzer, Ph.D, Director for the CHS and Principal Investigator on EVH grant. He was PI on the Visible Human Project Phase I. In addition to his PI responsibilities for the EVH grant, he will contribute to curriculum development using EVH for medical student training. He will oversee the introduction of resources into school of medicine, physician assistant and undergraduate anatomy courses. He will coordinate feedback from these courses for guiding further development of the EVH and NGI. He will also oversee the Web development efforts and graphic design of the EVH.
Evaluation
and Assessment Experts
Lecia Barker,
PhD. is director of the Alliance
for Technology, Learning, and Society (ATLAS) Evaluation and Assessment. She
directs several evaluation projects and conducts evaluation research at the
University of Colorado, Boulder. She will provide supervision of the evaluation
and assessment for the EVH project.
Tim Weston, Ph.D. also works for the Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society (ATLAS) Evaluation and Assessment. He will be responsible for overall design, implementation, and reporting of the summative evaluation of the student response to the EVH and course curricula they are presented with.
Cliff Barnes, Ph.D.
is an Assistant Professor at Regis University and teaches human anatomy to their
physical therapy students. He will contribute as an outside evaluator.
Engineering
Team
Karl D. Reinig,
PhD. is the Co- Principal Investigator
of the EVH grant. He has been with the Center since the early part of the Visible
Human Project Phase I. He has directed the utilization and further development
of the commercially segmented and classified VHM dataset in internationally
acclaimed, haptic based surgical simulators. He will contribute to project management
of the software development and directly supervise the software development
efforts. He will also contribute to the design and implementation of the EVH
and the structure of IAA specifications.
Joel M. Bach, PhD is Director of the Orthopaedics Biomechanics Labs at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. His research has focused on normal and pathologic mechanics and kinematics of the knee joint. He will contribute 10% effort on this contract for each of the first two years. He will develop the normal and pathologic knee data that will complete the kinematic description of the knee for undergraduate and post graduate curricula as well as engineer the knee motion relevant to arthroscopic knee surgery procedures.
Christopher Lee has been with the Center for the past two years and has made major contributions to the overall Center programs in rendering, modeling and haptic response.
Elizabeth Pflum, B.A. is a Professional Research Assistant at National Jewish Medical and Research Center, an affiliated Institution of the University of Colorado Denver. She is currently working in Immunology but has completed four years of Computer Science course work including robotics, data structures, numerical analysis and intelligent agents.
David G. Whitlock, MD, PhD is Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He was co-PI. on the Visible Human Project Phase I. He has taught anatomy for over 30 years and was chair of the department of anatomy at the University of Colorado School of Medicine for 25 years. He will provide consulting to the group on development of 3D anatomic visualization for the whole body. He will also assist in the development of major functional anatomy areas and terminology consistent with UMLS. He will also contribute to the assessment of the completeness and navigability of functional and clinical anatomy visualizations.
Sherri Valenta, BS has a background in graphic design and photography. She has worked in the Center for the last two years in segmentation and classification of CT and MRI clinical images. She has also worked on the design and programming of the Center website and will contribute to the EVH design and layout for this project.