Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture: Prunus mume: Stanford Medicine VR, Stanford "Project BraveHeart: A pilot study examining in the effectiveness of Virtual Reality ...," Stanford Medicine CDH WUaS Collaboration, Center for Digital Health form: ... * * * "Stanford - Healthy Aging in Asia: Assessing the Net Value of Chronic Disease Management" * * * G.d ... glad to hear back from Victor van Kooten today from Greece (Yogi and artist). I had wished him happy birthday yesterday, sent him a PDF of my new book, "Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering and the Poetry of Loving Bliss" (and to Angela ... ), G.d whom I really really like ... she's a kind of love ball ... muzzling in for touching, With my interest in robotics, I wonder how one could make a G.d robot as companion, friend, affection-generator and loving interactive presence

Stanford "Project BraveHeart: A pilot study examining in the effectiveness of Virtual Reality ..."

Dear Dr. Dubin, Dr. Schneider, Dr. Harrington, Avani, and CDH,

Thanks for your inspiring VR & experimentally focused "Project BraveHeart: A pilot study examining in the effectiveness of Virtual Reality for procedure preparation with pediatric cardiology patients" - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cdh-workshop-project-brave-heart-tickets-53832471371 . It was very nice to meet and talk with you as well. In what ways might CC-4 MIT OCW-centric (in its 5 languages) World University and School collaborate best with the Center for Digital Health, besides building on your great VR study and thinking, and potentially and conceptually with a realistic virtual earth for VR (am thinking Google Streetview with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / Tensorflow / Translate for languages, and at the cellular and atomic levels / Project Baseline and with AVATAR BOTS of individuals and species) and for actual-virtual, physical-digital CDH VR (and even robotics') research and medicine?

World University and School seeks to generate online Medical Schools in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages from a Template like this - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with CC-4 MIT OCW in 5 languages and CC Yale OYC course ware, but MIT and Yale don't have any Medicine OpenCourseWare for online medical degrees (newly defined potentially), - so potentially with Stanford's CDH itself (and possibly building on the NEJM's continuing medical education CME modules). Linked to each of these online medical schools would be an online teaching hospital, e.g. - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospital - with Project Baseline into avatar bots (and even for thinking through tele-robotic surgery) and for clinical care.

I'll plan to fill out the CDH collaborator form - http://med.stanford.edu/cdh/connect.html - but beyond this, I wonder how collaborating might work with regard to studying anxiety reduction before surgery for children, and re my actual-virtual ethnographic field site, Harbin Hot Springs, where I think the benefits even of soaking in a warm water before surgery might be worth studying, with regards to soaking in the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool, might offer much to learn from with regard to your study. Brainstorming-wise, and further, how might one study the relaxation response with biosensors in brainwave headsets and at the cellular and atomic levels, from a bath tub, or the Harbin warm pool (with a different culture, discourse and narratives) with data streaming in real time into a realistic virtual earth for brain / bodymind science? (I blog a lot of the virtual world idea re your VR focus - e.g. here https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20world - and see, too, the 'virtual Harbin' label as well as the 'surgery' and 'Medical Schools' labels).

Thanks again so much, and looking forward to communicating further in many ways about your great presentation, and potential collaborations.

Best regards,

Scott

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Stanford Medicine CDH WUaS Collaboration

Center for Digital Health form:

Company name

World University and School

Please provide a brief description of your company's product or service (500 characters or less).

World University and School seeks to generate online medical schools in each of all ~200 countries' official/main languages emerging from - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with CC-4 MIT OCW in 5 languages and CC Yale OYC course ware MD degrees, newly defined with Projects ECHO & Baseline into avatar bots & with online teaching hospitals - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospital - (and for planning for tele-robotic surgery) and for clinical care.

Company website

worlduniversityandschool.org

Name (First, Last)

MacLeod, Scott GK

Title

President, Founder, Professor, CEO

Email address

sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Phone number

412 478 0116

What is unique about your product or service? What problem is it trying to solve?

World Univ & Sch seeks to provide online medical education & clinical care anew for free-to-students' medical degrees in each of all ~200 countries' official languages based on CC-4 MIT OCW & ~Stanford Medicine OCW, for ex. WUaS plans to do this online, innovating with both I.T. and STEM technologies. WUaS also has a specific focus on aiding the poorest countries in the world with excellent online medical education and clinical care. Developing in a realistic virtual earth - conceptually like Google Streetview with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / Tensorflow / Translate for languages, and at the cellular and atomic levels / Project Baseline and with AVATAR BOTS of individuals and species) and for actual-virtual, physical-digital CDH VR (and even robotics') research and medicine - will help WUaS solve the emergent medical education problems relating to the online digital health (including, for ex., gene editing with conceptually CRISPR into Google Street View, and atomic level 'editing' for medical outcomes).

What stage is your company's product or service in?

Accreditation with the state of California is the next step, for the following degrees: Bachelor, Ph.D, Law, M.D. and I.B. high school in ~200 countries’ official / main languages conceptually - as we build out the WUaS platform.

How is your company funded?

WUaS hasn't received any funding yet.

What is your company's business model?

Here are the WUaS 14 planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html - for both wings of World University and School, the A) non-profit 501 c 3 World University and School and B) the for-profit general stock company, the WUaS Press with machine translation / the WUaS Corp, an educational services' company (for eg bookstores, computer stores, robotics, hospital technologies, etc.) both planned in ~200 nation states and 7,097 living languages.

What category best describes your product or service?

Telemedicine

How would you be interested in collaborating with us?

All of the above

Research

Faculty consulting

Educational Initiatives

Pilot

Product development / design

Do you have a particular clinical/academic area of interest?

Yes

Telemedicine

Alternative medicine

Genetics

Hospital Medicine

Mental and Behavioral Health

Neuroscience

Surgery

Other: Telemedicine

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At Stanford Medicine events

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https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School

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Scott GK MacLeod is the founder, president CEO, and a professor at World University and School - https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod/

Larry A Viehland, a graduate in Physics and Chemistry of MIT and the University of Wisconsin - https://www.chatham.edu/physics/facultydetails.cfm?FacultyID=63 is the Chair of the Board and CFO, currently of both WUaS wings.

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Hi M,

Was glad to hear a Stanford Medicine VR talk yesterday (blog post coming), and to meet the two Drs. who did this presentation, Lauren Schneider and Anne Dubin MD. Lauren is a professor of psychiatry, albeit not a MD, and has a 5 year who was shown in the slides wearing VR. Anne is a pediatric cardiologist and their presentation and one particular study in it were focused on using VR to reduce anxiety in kids before heart surgery. Bob Harrington MD is also a cardiologist, and chair of Stanford Medicine, and is also the head of the Stanford Center for Digital Health which put on this presentation. This VR and relaxation study parallels quite closely my interests in creating a realistic virtual Harbin for soaking in the Harbin warm pool. (Thanks, Bob H? :)

... And remarkably, the CDH is open for collaboration ... i.e. with World University and School. Have already emailed these friends, but will fill out their form today as well. Way opening (to use a Quaker phrase) ... :)

G.d ... glad to hear back from Victor van Kooten today from Greece (Yogi and artist). I had wished him happy birthday yesterday, sent him a PDF of my new book, "Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering and the Poetry of Loving Bliss" (and to Angela and Lynn too). Victor, in mentioning G.d, reminded me of (my 1st cousin Veterinarian extraordinaire) Annie's dog (and Ted and Mary's dog too) of this name G.d whom I really really like ... she's a kind of love ball ... muzzling in for
touching connection ... as much as one would like, then disappears when you and she have had enough. She also doesn't really beg or get annoying (in my experience). Her personality seems to be part of her dog breed, but also somehow the good choosing of Ted and Mary.

With my interest in robotics, I wonder how one could make a G.d robot as companion, friend, affection-generator and loving interactive presence, so many people could benefit, - and since it doesn't seem possible to clone G.d very easily yet. And could one even take a video of G.d the wonder-dog on Wisdom Creek Ranch, and turn this into 3D in a realistic virtual world, and begin to develop this G.d avatar bot digitally ... and even as a design for a G.d physical robot in some years?

Not sure why Victor mentioned G.d in his email spelt this way, but he did. And the above are interesting ideas. (No, I'm not going up to Oregon to dog-nap G.d because she's so wonderful ... :)

Glad too to hear back from some recent Stanford and Harvard contacts / Professors - Karen Eggleston, Liz Gunderson and Alexa Kutler all saying I was doing interesting work in one way or another ... am out here in far left field, and don't often get positive feedback - for years.

My cold became more phlegmy recently, and so I tried the 'immune support' (re 'Airborne') this morning, which seems to be working (with no hypothetical duct-twinge in my right finger, thumb-side). So thanks much for suggesting 'Airborne.'

What are you up to this weekend?

L, Scott

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Stanford - Healthy Aging in Asia: Assessing the Net Value of Chronic Disease Management

Karen, Jianchao, Toshiaki,

Thanks for your very edifying presentations - https://fsi.stanford.edu/events/healthy-aging-asia-assessing-net-value-chronic-disease-management - and re medical spending, and with regard to there being "relatively little quantitative evidence on whether the rise in expenditure is “worth it” in the sense of producing health outcomes of commensurate value" - for both individuals and societies in the countries you studied.

Brainstorming-wise and in a very broad way, am curious: if you could get all the data you want about chronic diseases like your diabetes' data (that already exists), and from each Asian country, and organize it, conceptually, in something like a realistic virtual earth with avatar bots representing people (am thinking Google Streetview with time slider / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow with AVATAR BOTS for a variety of medical care and cost and data reasons beyond chronic diseases, including eventually tele-robotic surgery etc. with this as an emerging example: https://med.stanford.edu/seminars/eventDetails.do?semid=127594 ), and importantly also in Stanford/Duke/Google's Project Baseline - and bring this together in one comparative study, I wonder if one could build a model or a study that takes the best of each countries' data and approaches to chronic diseases, and then to benefit both individuals and the society in any given country in new ways. To develop this brainstorming further, if the Stanford graduate student at the table whom Karen mentioned could develop such a study which included using Kaiser Permanente diabetes' data (and from even individual US states with KP eg California, Oregon, Colorado and Georgia, etc., and include the Asian countries in your presentations, as well as The Netherlands, too, in one study, whether a digital model could emerge which would both understand the countries' health care cost systems comparatively and newly, and potentially offer approaches to benefit society individuals, and bring medical care costs significantly down, thanks to this development of engaging information technology to diabetes as a chronic disease. I'd think that a Stanford study using Asian and KP data that was possibly realistic virtual earth-centric could open significant new vistas for addressing the questions you spoke about.

I ask these questions too in developing online MIT OCW-centric World University and School planned in each of these at World University and School - Asia WUaS https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Asia as https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States .

WUaS seeks to generate online Medical Schools in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages from a Template like this - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with CC-4 MIT OCW in 5 languages and CC Yale OYC course ware, but MIT and Yale don't have any Medicine OpenCourseWare for online medicine degrees (newly defined potentially). Linked to each of these medical schools would be an online teaching hospital, e.g. - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospital - for clinical care. And WUaS is seeking to emerge from Stanford Medicine for something like Medicine OpenCourseWare (and Stanford Law for legal OCW).

FYI, and as an example of one Asian WUaS, here's the beginning wiki China World University and School -