Gail Kopp, University of Calgary

Research

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Latest papers

Systematic Review of Patient-Specific Surgical Simulation: Toward Advancing Medical Education.
Journal of surgical education · 2017
Design-Based Comparison of Spine Surgery Simulators: Optimizing Educational Features of Surgical Simulators.
World neurosurgery · 2017

All 2 publications

Latest funding

The IMAGINE network: interactive media, applied games, and implicit networked environments
SSHRC · 2004 · Co-investigator
$42,000
Project neuroArm: MR compatible image guided robot for microsurgery
CFI · 2004 · Co-investigator
$10,499,339

All 2 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Systematic Review of Patient-Specific Surgical Simulation: Toward Advancing Medical Education.

Ryu WHA, Dharampal N, Mostafa AE, Sharlin E, Kopp G, Jacobs WB, Hurlbert RJ, Chan S, Sutherland GR

Journal of surgical education201749 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2017.05.018 PMID: 28600218

02

Design-Based Comparison of Spine Surgery Simulators: Optimizing Educational Features of Surgical Simulators.

Ryu WHA, Mostafa AE, Dharampal N, Sharlin E, Kopp G, Jacobs WB, Hurlbert RJ, Chan S, Sutherland GR

World neurosurgery201719 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2017.07.021 PMID: 28712902

The IMAGINE network: interactive media, applied games, and implicit networked environments

Co-investigatorSSHRC2004Image, Text, Sounds and Technology

Principal investigators: Parker, James R.

Keywords: communication; interactive media; computer games; educational technology; virtual reality; multimedia

$42,000

Project neuroArm: MR compatible image guided robot for microsurgery

Co-investigatorCFI2004Innovation Fund: Innovation Fund (1999-2005)

Principal investigators: Sutherland, Garnette

Keywords: Robotics, microsurgery, surgical simulation, medical image processing, intraoperative MR imaging

$10,499,339

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Werklund School of Education
Department of Computer Science
DCNS

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Garnette Sutherland

DCNS

2 shared papers, latest 2017

Ehud Sharlin

Department of Computer Science

2 shared papers, latest 2017

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