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CHARIOT Program - Innovative Uses of Virtual and Augmented Reality for Pain and Anxiety

Please join us on Wednesday, June 15, 4:00-5:30pm Pacific (please note the updated date/time) for a talk by leadership of the CHARIOT program at Stanford Children's Health. CHARIOT utilizes medically nontraditional technologies, including Smart Projectors, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and other immersive technologies and nontraditional tools to capture patients’ imaginations in order to decrease pain and anxiety

Speakers will include Thomas Caruso, MD, MEd, Clinical Professor of Pediatric Anesthesia at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. In addition to his clinical work, his research in the CHARIOT Lab evaluates the potential of immersive technologies for childhood pain and anxiety reduction. The lab has more recently expanded into exploring the clinical use of VR with adults, including women who receive an epidural procedure prior to labor.

This event will take place over Zoom (link).