what you are doing at VRforHealth to inform patients about the uses of Virtual Reality is so important. Our wish is that one day soon the use of immersive technology will no longer be a surpris
A Not Too Geeky Look at VR Hardware with a Surgeon, Healthcare Futurist
Conversation between Dr Rafael Grossmann and Denise Silber for VRforHealth Rafael J. Grossmann Zamora, MD, FACS is an immigrant, surgeon, educator, speaker, patient advocate, and healthcare futurist, and immigrant. Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, Rafael did his surgery residency in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. After training as a general surgeon, he moved to Maine where he is a full-time practicing surgeon. Attracted … Read More
A Radiation Oncologist’s Journey toward Virtual Reality for his Patients
A conversation between Dr William Levin, Penn Medicine and Denise Silber, VRforHealth Dr. Levin is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center. His post-graduate medical training includes a medical internship at Yale, a residency in radiation oncology at the University of Pennsylvania, and a fellowship in proton therapy at the … Read More
How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine by Dr Brennan Spiegel
Through this book, I found myself on a beautiful journey around the understanding of the mind, our perception of life, death, fear, pain,…combined with clinical research references, … And I want it all. I want to be in this universe, benefit from it and help others access it…
The Benefits of Introducing VR Therapy at Cedars-Sinai
Interview of Dr Brennan Spiegel, Cedars-Sinai, by Denise Silber, VRforHealth We are grateful at VRforHealth to Cedars-Sinai for the Virtual Medicine conferences that led the future co-founders Beth Savoldelli and Denise Silber to meet. We are thus especially pleased that Dr Spiegel, an international thought leader on therapeutic virtual reality and curator of those conferences, could make time for this … Read More
Testimonials from Patients, Professionals, Innovators
VRforHealth.com has put together in one place, all the pieces in my head of how we need to take VR forward and how. It is all presented beautifully and simply on the platform. Ross O’Brien
Shift Medical 2020 (Sept. 24-26): 5 Reasons to Join VRforHealth at this Full-Virtual Event!
Join VR for Health at Shift Medical 2020, Sept. 24-26. It’s fully virtual!
188 VR Clinical Trials Are Currently Recruiting Patients!
The Challenges of Clinical Research: At VRforHealth, we support the advancement of clinical research about Virtual Reality as a therapy. Recruiting patients for clinical research trials in a timely fashion is always a challenge. This difficulty is compounded for VR trials by the low level of awareness of virtual reality as a therapy and additionally by the impact of the … Read More
Digital Health needs Virtual Reality and VR needs you!
Learn why therapeutic VR is so important to the success of digital health and why Denise Silber wanted to co-found VRforHealth. The Origins of Digital Health: When computers and software were invented over 60 years ago, clinicians began to identify uses for them in medicine: statistical analysis, hospital information systems, computerized medical records… The birth of telecommunications furthered telemedicine. I … Read More
Patient Testimony: From the engagement mindset to VR
“Small interventions that engage patients have the power to influence healing.” In 2008, I decided to get a buzz cut before my hair fell out in clumps on the shower floor. I wasn’t prepared for the shift in psychological mindset such a small decision was about to make in the year that followed. It came to be one of the … Read More
