1996 Satava Award presented for the "Visible Human" Project.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 1996--Michael J. Ackerman, Ph.D., and Victor M. Spitzer, Ph.D., have been named co-recipients of the 1996 Satava Award for their achievements in conceiving and creating the Visible Human Project. The award was presented during a ceremony at the annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality conference in San Diego. Instituted in 1995 and named for Army Col. Richard M. Satava, MD, the award is given each year to an individual(s) demonstrating unique vision and commitment in the transformation of medicine through communication. The Visible Human Project has produced the first computerized "atlas" of the human body consisting of digitized images of full-body MRI 1. (application) MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2. MRI - Measurement Requirements and Interface. and CT scans and high-resolution color cryosection images taken from a male and female cadaver cadaver /ca·dav·er/ (kah-dav´er) a dead body; generally applied to a human body preserved for anatomical study.cadav´ericcadav´erous ca·dav·er n. . These computerized images can be viewed and manipulated on screen in any dimension and any resolution. "Drs. Ackerman and Spitzer's role in creating the Visible Human has transformed medical education," said Helene Hoffman, Ph.D., assistant dean, Curriculum and Computing at UC San Diego, and director, Learning Resources Center, UCSD UCSD University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California) UCSD User Centered System Design UCSD Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District (Illinois) UCSD Ultra Cool Sexy Dudes School of Medicine. "This data set has become the new standard for human physiology education. For example, 30 to 40 percent of the papers presented at this year's conference alone relied on this data set." Both Ackerman and Spitzer are active in the field of medical informatics medical informatics, n the field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical data through the application of computers to various aspects of health care and medicine. in which interactive technology is applied to medical education. Ackerman is Director of the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project. He has played a role in founding and/or serving in leadership positions with numerous medical informatic groups. In 1985, Ackerman was elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics The American College of Medical Informatics is a college of elected fellows from the United States and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. and in 1992 was a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in biomedical engineering. Spitzer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cellular and Structural Biology and Radiology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC) is part of the University of Colorado System. It has recently been merged with the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD) to form the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. . He is a member of numerous honors and medical groups, including the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology. Spitzer earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
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