UK HealthCare

Expo Allows Close-Up Look at High Tech-Robots and Simulators Used for Medical Training

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 12, 2014) -- University of Kentucky faculty, staff and students are invited to a Simulation Expo sponsored by the new UK Office of Clinical Simulation. The event is being held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 13, in the UK Chandler Hospital, Pavilion A, ground floor lobby. Remarks by UK President Eli Capilouto and UK Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Dr. Michael Karpf will kick-off the event in the Pavilion A Auditorium at 11 a.m.

Robotic, human-patient and task simulators will be displayed and demonstrated. Directed by longtime UK faculty member Dr. Zaki Hassan, professor of anesthesiolgoy and surgery in the UK College of Medicine, the newly established Office of Clinical Simulation strives to promote clinical care and patient safety by providing students, residents, physcians and nurses an array of clinical simulation and task skills training opportunities.