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Illuminate Toronto 2012

Conference - Toronto, Canada

The 67th Annual AMI Meeting will take place July 25-28, 2012 in Toronto, ON, Canada at the Delta Chelsea Hotel. The annual AMI meeting is North America's premier conference on biomedical visualization. Featured themes for 2012 include:

Molecular Visualization

Global and Public Health Education

Biomedical Gaming and Simulation

The conference will focus on our unique ability to illuminate complex issues, with a robust program of world-class speakers. Their presentations will describe the many facets of our growing and ever-changing profession, while demonstrating the continuing importance of visual communication in the biomedical sciences. Audra Geras will speak about professionalism in the changing medical illustration market. E.O. Wilson and Gaël McGill will show recent developments in publishing and education with their Life on Earth - a digital biology textbook for the iPad. Ben Fry will demonstrate how visualization of complex data can help to illuminate hidden meaning and reveal patterns. Dr. Richard Satava will describe innovations in biomedical simulation. And Hall Train will describe his work in paleontological visualization to show us the role of the artist in scientific investigation. Numerous other presentations on technique foundations, historical perspectives on medicine, educational theory, and communication concepts will deepen our day-to-day working knowledge of practices in our field.

(Photo courtesy of  http://www.ami.org/upcoming-meeting)

25th - 28th July 2012

Delta Chelsea Hotel, Toronto, Canada

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